Dr. Moore was born on September 6, 1863, in Rosindale, North Carolina, to Israel Moore and Anna Eliza Spaulding Moore.

Since the early nineteenth century, the Moore family, of African, Native American and European descent had owned land in Columbus County North Carolina as free farmers.
Dr. Moore was one of the six incorporators of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, now North Carolina Central University.

Dr. Aaron Moore a 1888 graduate of Shaw University Leonard Medical School who completed the four year program in three years, was Durham's first Black doctor.

Dr. Moore founded Lincoln Hospital in Durham, North Carolina in 1901, and Dr. Moore also was a co-founder of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, the oldest and largest African American owned life insurance company in the United States.

Dr. Moore established a library for the Black citizens of Durham at White rock Church that evolved into the present day Stanford L. Warren Library.
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Bio details:
Moore, like his nine brothers and sisters, alternately worked on the family farm during the harvesting and planting seasons and attending the segregated county school and upon completing 8th grade, Moore became a teacher at the same county school.

He entered Whitin Normal School, in Lumberton, followed by the Normal School at Fayetteville to further his education.

These institutions were both focused on teacher training, as education was considered key for freedmen's progress and there was an effort to develop Black teachers for segregated schools across the state.
However, after completing his first term at the latter, Moore was summoned home by his father to help on the farm.
In 1885 he enrolled in the newly built Black college in Raleigh, Shaw University, and was accepted into its school of medicine, the Leonard Medical School. He completed the four-year program in three years, passed the North Carolina medical board examinations, and in 1888 settled in Durham as the city's first Black physician.

In 1889, Moore married Cottie S. Dancy, niece of John C. Dancy, a leading African American Republican in North Carolina. They had a family together, including daughter Lyda Moore Merrick.

John C. Dancy was one of North Carolina's leading Black political figures, and Dr. Moore became involved in politics himself as a candidate for Durham County coroner.

But even in the late 1880s, well before North Carolina's white supremacy terrorism campaigns, he found the white majority of Durham hostile to his efforts in direct politics, so he, like other Black leaders of the New South, redirected his energies to self-help, racial solidarity, and the formation of all-Black institutions.

In 1895 he helped organize a community pharmacy, and from that time on he participated in a wide range of Black business activities, most notably as medical director and cofounder with John Merrick of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company.
He was a prominent leader in the Durham African American community based in the part of the city known as Hayti.

He founded Lincoln Hospital, a medical facility that served Negro patients during a time of racial segregation.

Organized in 1898, the North Carolina Mutual became the largest Black business in the United States and brought Durham considerable fame as the "Capital of the Black Middle Class."
On Merrick's death in 1919, Moore became president of the company, serving until his own death in 1923.

He focused on the improvement of North Carolina's rural school education for Black children and Black teachers.

Dr. Moore maintained his medical practice, never sacrificing his primary identity as physician and community servant. Indeed, he is remembered more for his service and philanthropy than for his business efforts, a distinction that lost its meaning in terms of the racial self-fulfillment that Moore had in mind.

With Merrick's help in raising money Moore founded Lincoln Hospital in 1901 and the Durham Colored Library in 1913. Beginning in 1914 he became absorbed in the rural education movement for the Black school children of North Carolina.

He personally financed a campaign to point up the need for such schools and then successfully petitioned for state funds and a matching grant from the Rosenwald Foundation.

Moore spent another part of his life working for the Baptist church. At Durham's White Rock Baptist Church he was chairman of the board of deacons, a member of the board of trustees, and superintendent of the Sunday school for twenty-five years.

Beyond Durham he served as president of the Baptist State Sunday School Convention. His work for the Lott Cary Foreign Missionary Convention took him to Haiti, where, with funds he had raised in the United States, he founded the Haitian White Rock Baptist Church.

He also raised funds for missionary work in Africa. Moore served as trustee for the Baptist orphanage in Oxford and as chairman of the board of trustees for Shaw University, his Baptist alma mater to which he willed five thousand dollars.

His wife, Cottie Dancy Moore, survived until 1950. Their two daughters, Mattie and Lyda, married executives of the North Carolina Mutual. Mattie died prematurely in 1929; Lyda lived in Durham and carried on her father's legacy of social service as founder and editor of the Negro Braille Magazine.

Through philanthropic works and business enterprises, Moore played a significant role in improving the standard of living of African Americans in Durham. He also faced and navigated around the racial discrimination, bridging the White and Black communities in Durham in addition to improving its healthcare and economy.
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Sources: Wikipedia, The Durham Colored Library, Jstor.