 He "offered to fund any teachers for newly emancipated slaves that Wilson could find"  in Upper Canada.Around this time, Moore's brothers, Elias, Enoch and John were distinguishing themselves in the Reform politics of Upper Canada.His brother-in-law, Richard Mott, was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth and reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859).