Louise V. Moore (Louisa W. appears on her birth record) was born in Jackson, Michigan, about 40 miles west of Detroit, to British immigrants Francis B. Moore and Louisa Rawlings. In a couple of Detroit directories of the early 1870s it is inferred that the Moores resided for a time on the other side of the Detroit river in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. From the mid-1870s forward Francis worked for the Michigan Central Railroad as a clerk. The 1880 enumeration showed that his wife Louisa was a "dealer in fancy goods."

Louise married Canadian immigrant drug store clerk James W. Gustin in 1887. Their son Frank Nellis was born May 11, 1888. The marriage did not succeed, nor did his budding pharmaceutical career, although his brother Charles did very well in that line of work. By 1893 James had switched careers to travel agent. James and Louise were divorced in late 1895. He remarried in 1898. Louise appeared as Louisa V. Gustin in the Detroit directory in 1895, listed as a music teacher residing at 27 Laurel, once again living with her parents from 1895-1897. Francis Moore died by 1897 and Louise, still using Gustin, was living with only her widowed mother Louisa at a new address. She was shown in the 1897 directory as residing at 154 Charlotte Avenue in Detroit.

In February 1898 Louise was appointed by Frank E. Belcher, who would eventually help to run Jerome H. Remick Publishing, as his assistant for the Mabley & Goodfellow Department Store music department. While there, she composed one of her first pieces, a patriotic march written around the time of the military campaign in Cuba after the sinking of The Battleship Maine in Cuba. Ms. Gustin remained with her mother through 1898, but is not mentioned under the name of Gustin in any future Detroit directories. For at least that last year she was shown as employed at C.A. Shaefer's, a downtown Detroit department store, likely in the music department demonstrating sheet music. Some of it may have been her own, including her first two syncopated pieces, An Old Virginia Cake Walk and Topsy Turvy. Both were published by Fred Belcher who may have also got her the job.

On November 14, 1899, Louise married her second husband, Harry Bennison Taylor, a clerk for the Pittman and Dean Coal and Ice Company in Detroit who was several years her junior. They were wed across the border in Essex, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, then settled in Detroit where both had been living. The couple was shown in the 1900 census in Detroit with 12 year old Frank, listed as a stepson, but implying Taylor as the last name. In spite of her having had four or five compositions in print by this time, Louise had no profession listed. Also as of the same census, Louisa Moore was living in Franklin, Michigan, with the family of her nephew Samuel Rawlings, which included her older brother Joseph W.V. Rawlings.

Regardless of her new last name change, Louise chose to publish her pieces as either L.V. Gustin or Louise Gustin. A search for titles under L.V. Taylor or Louise Taylor turned up nothing. Her works were published almost exclusively by Detroit publishers. Louise's X-N-Tric Two Step was picked up by Whitney Warner who had acquired Belcher's catalog, and Whitney Warner was in turn acquired by the growing and soon dominant publishing firm of Jerome H. Remick & Company.

The quality and good sales of her work made getting more pieces into print a fairly easy task, including her next few compositions from 1902 through 1905. One unusual work, the M.M. & M.C.B. March of 1905, got some attention in the railroad community, as noted in the Daily Railway Age, albeit with a bit of gender confusion in the mix:

Then the promising output stopped after around sixteen known compositions. Frank had died in June of 1903 as a result of paralysis brought on by diptheria. After some time, Louise and Harry had a daughter in 1907, Mary Louise Taylor. At some point during the decade Louise's mother moved in with the family.

There are clearly inaccurate reports in some published sources that show Louise as having died in 1910. Actually, the June, 1910, census listed the family in Detroit, Harry now as a manager with the coal company and Louise with no profession indicated.

Two more works by Louise did appear in 1915, issued by Remick, including a waltz and the instrumental Let's Trot, taking advantage of the fox trot craze sweeping the country. Given that the fox trot was not even a glimmer in 1910, it would further make reports of her death that year somewhat premature. Let's Trot was dedicated to Mrs. Adele Strasburg Hyde, a well-known dance teacher in Detroit. There is a good possibility that Louise had accompanied some of her classes on the piano at some point prior to the composition.

By 1918 the Taylors had moved to Pittsfield, a far west Detroit suburb just south of Ann Arbor. As per the 1920 enumeration and directories through the early 1920s, Harry was still a manager for Pittman and Dean with an address in nearby Saline. Curiously, city directories and all future records showed Louise as Louise B. Taylor, having changed the V., and the source of either initial was not located. Harry died unexpectedly on May 28, 1928, at age 52 as a result of myocarditis, leaving Louise single once again. She was shown as widowed in the 1930 census, living with her daughter Mary and another female lodger in Detroit. Mary was working in advertising as a sales promoter. She was not found in subsequent Michigan directories after 1930, but evidently lived there until the mid-1940s. It appears that she moved in with her daughter in New York City in 1946 or 1947. Louise died in New York in late August 1949 at age 80, and was laid to rest with Harry at Acacia Park Cemetery in Detroit.