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A [[Baton Rouge]] native, Moore was the granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Bryan, a former Baton Rouge [[mayor]], who served during the 1880s. Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then [[Governor]] [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce  Long, Jr.]] Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at [[rural]] Angola in West Feliciana Parish, near St. Francisville. She was frequently in contact with prisoners, who grew the food required to operate the penitentiary.<ref name=moore>{{cite web|url=

A [[Baton Rouge]] native, Moore was the granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin Bryan, a former Baton Rouge [[mayor]], who served during the 1880s. Her father was the warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary until he was dismissed in a dispute with then [[Governor]] [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce  Long, Jr.]] Moore spent her early years growing up at the manager's residence when the penitentiary was in Baton Rouge, instead of the present site at [[rural]] Angola in West Feliciana Parish, near St. Francisville. She was frequently in contact with prisoners, who grew the food required to operate the penitentiary.<ref name=moore>{{cite web|url=

https://web.archive.org/web/20100526015707/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/abstracts/military/MooreE.htm|title=Interview with Ellen Bryan Moore at T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge, September–October 1995|publisher=lib.lsu.edu|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}</ref>

https://web.archive.org/web/20100526015707/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/williams/abstracts/military/MooreE.htm|title=Interview with Ellen Bryan Moore at T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at [[Louisiana State University]] in Baton Rouge, September–October 1995|publisher=lib.lsu.edu|accessdate=September 7, 2009}}</ref>

 

Moore attended St. Joseph's Academy and the [[Louisiana State University]] demonstration school in Baton Rouge before she enrolled at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]] and then the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]. In 1933, she graduated with teaching credentials from LSU, and in 1950, she obtained a master's degree in education and [[psychology]]. After the war, she taught at Wyandotte and later Bernard Terrace elementary schools in Baton Rouge.<ref name=moore/> Moore established the first soup kitchen in Baton Rouge to benefit families of her impoverished pupils.<ref name=moore/> She told an interviewer in 1995 that she had kept up with her former charges years after they had been in her classes.<ref name=moore/>

Moore attended St. Joseph's Academy and the [[Louisiana State University]] demonstration school in Baton Rouge before she enrolled at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]] and then the University of Louisiana at [[Lafayette]]. In 1933, she graduated with teaching credentials from LSU, and in 1950, she obtained a master's degree in education and [[psychology]]. After the war, she taught at Wyandotte and later Bernard Terrace elementary schools in Baton Rouge.<ref name=moore/> Moore established the first soup kitchen in Baton Rouge to benefit families of her impoverished pupils.<ref name=moore/> She told an interviewer in 1995 that she had kept up with her former charges years after they had been in her classes.<ref name=moore/>