From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

George L. Moxley was said to be born around 1865 in Kentucky, though most sources give New York as his birth location. Moxley was a tenor singer, stage manager, interlocutor, and minstrel performer. On occasion he passed for white while working with companies such as the Elk's Minstrels. He began singing in public at the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876 (which may bring his birth year into quesion).

In 1892, Moxley was living in Logansport, IN, where he was to take part in the colored cake walk, and later he would be singing Chosen Friends entertainment. Professor Moxley, as he was often called, was mentioned often in the Logansport newspaper in regard to his benefits and concerts. Moxley sometimes performed with his wife. He was an active member of the community and belonged to Salesmen's Union #6 and the Logansport Barber's Union. Moxley was the only "colored" delegate at the 1892 State Convention of the Federation held in Logansport. He was elected the guide for the Barber's Union.

In September 1892, George L. Moxley left Logansport for Chicago, where he joined the Sheppard & Young Minstrel Company. In 1935 when he was 70 years of age, Moxley was said to be telling fortunes in Texas.

Moxley was known for getting into precarious situations such as fine dining without a cent to his name, yet he was able to talk his way out of paying. 

For more see "A Colored cake walk," The Daily Journal (Logansport, IN), 3/8/1892, p. 20; "Don't fail to hear Prof. George L. Moxley ...," The Daily Journal, 4/17/1892, p. 13; "The Meeting next week," Logansport Daily Pharos, 7/22/1892, p. 4; "In Labor's cause," The Daily Journal, 7/27/1892, p.
5; "Your name in print," The Daily Journal, 9/4/1892, p. 8; Out of Sight: the Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895, by L. Abbott and D. Seroff; and Father of the Blues, an Autobiography, by W. C. Handy.