On April 16, 1880, at Boston, she secretly married Charles Fletcher Lummis, who was then a student at Harvard University.
In 1881, she entered Boston University School of Medicine, and graduated with honors in 1884, thought he flunked out before then and went to work for her parents in the Scioto River area of Ohio.
Initially engaged in farming, he became a journalist on the Scioto Gazette before he accepted a position with the Los Angeles Times in 1884.
During the last year of her college life, Moore served as resident physician in the New England Conservatory of Music.
In 1885, she joined her husband in Los Angeles, where she began to practice medicine.
She was highly successful in her practice, obtaining prompt recognition from her fellow physicians.
She served as president and secretary of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, and as corresponding secretary of the Southern California Medical Society.
In her practice, after finding much cruelty and neglect among the children, chiefly of the Mexican-Americans, and among animals, she formed a humane society, and brought the cases of neglect and cruelty into the courts.

Moore served as dramatic editor of the Los Angeles Times, and later, the musical editor and critic of that journal.
She also did some notable literary work.
She contributed to Kate Field's Washington, Puck, Judge, Life, Woman's Cycle, the Home-Maker, the San Francisco Argonaut and The Californian.
She was a member of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association, and contributed many important papers to the various medical journals of standing in the United States.
On April 16, 1880, at Boston, she secretly married Charles Fletcher Lummis, who was then a student at Harvard University. In 1881, she entered Boston University School of Medicine, and graduated with honors in 1884, thought he flunked out before then and went to work for her parents in the Scioto River area of Ohio. Initially engaged in farming, he became a journalist on the Scioto Gazette before he accepted a position with the Los Angeles Times in 1884. During the last year of her college life, Moore served as resident physician in the New England Conservatory of Music. In 1885, she joined her husband in Los Angeles, where she began to practice medicine. She was highly successful in her practice, obtaining prompt recognition from her fellow physicians. She served as president and secretary of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, and as corresponding secretary of the Southern California Medical Society. In her practice, after finding much cruelty and neglect among the children, chiefly of the Mexican-Americans, and among animals, she formed a humane society, and brought the cases of neglect and cruelty into the courts.
Moore served as dramatic editor of the Los Angeles Times, and later, the musical editor and critic of that journal. She also did some notable literary work. She contributed to Kate Field's Washington, Puck, Judge, Life, Woman's Cycle, the Home-Maker, the San Francisco Argonaut and The Californian. She was a member of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association, and contributed many important papers to the various medical journals of standing in the United States.
Dorothea Rhodes Lummis Moore