However, Reverend Passavant, who had previously founded The Orphan’s Home and Farm School in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, convinced Moller of the need for a similar orphanage in New York to help the great number of children left fatherless by the Civil War.
He was regarded as an intelligent man, and during the Napoleonic era represented Frankfurt as an ambassador to Paris.
He also recorded a CD under the name Good Stuff House in 2006 with members of the Chicago band Zelienople and occasionally performs and records with Chicago's Boxhead Ensemble.