Princess Scoville was born around 1855 in Ohio to John G. Scoville and Ruth Chapman. Her father was a carpenter who owned $400 of real estate and $200 of personal property. The family moved to Brighton, Iowa, in the mid-1850s. By 1880, she was living in Montgomery, Ohio, with her mother and her sister Ruth. She married William T. Moore on December 31, 1885. She died sometime after 1885.