BIO:  Emily E. MOORHEAD, Huntington Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Pages 461-462

MISS EMILY E. MOORHEAD, York Springs, was born January 14, 1824, to William and 
Esther (Kinyon) Moorhead.  She was educated at the schools of York Springs; also 
was a pupil for a short time under the tuition of Dr. John H. Marsden; and 
finished her education at Lititz, Lancaster Co., Penn.  Although never having 
intended to become a teacher, she took, in 1845, charge of her first school, and 
for twenty-five consecutive years followed that vocation, with the exception of 
fourteen months, and continued until her father’s death in 1868.  She taught for 
several terms in York Springs, three years at Tyrone, three years at Cottage 
Hill and other places, and since 1869 has lived retired in the house where her 
father died at York Springs.  She is a very intelligent and affable lady, highly 
respected and honored by all.  The first of the family to come to America were 
Robert Muirhead and wife, native of the County Clare, Ireland, who arrived in 
this country about the year, or some time prior to, 1748.  They entered 300 
acres of land about three miles north of York Springs near the Carlisle Pike, 
and some of the receipts now in existence, in part payment for the same, are 
dated 1748.  They had one child, James Muirhead, who was born upon the ocean, 
and who married Elizabeth Fletcher, and lived, like his father and mother, on 
the old farm in Huntington Township, where they died and were buried, and where 
he and his wife were also buried, in Leers graveyard, in the same township.  
They had eight children, as follows:  Robert (who married Sally Brandon), Edward 
(who married Sally Parsel), Fletcher (who married Sally Livingston), William 
(who married Sally Proctor), John (who married Sarah Morrison), Mary (who became 
the wife of a Mr. Kelethan), Rebecca (who married a Mr. Richardson) and 
Elizabeth (who married William Proctor).  John Moorhead (who married Sarah 
Morrison) had three sons as follows:  James (married to a Miss Titsworth, had 
four children:  William, John, Mary and Sarah), William (who married Esther 
Kinyon, daughter of Roger and Esther (Maxon) Kinyon, of Rhode Island; they had 
two children:  Emily Esther, whose name heads this sketch, and Eliza Jane, who 
resides in Kewance, Ill., the widow of Rev. William Lieber, a Methodist 
minister).  Samuel Moorhead, the third son of John and Sarah (Morrison) 
Moorhead, married Sarah Holmes and had five children:  Eliza Euridica (who 
married Samuel Gray), John (who was thrice married, first, to a Miss Adams, then 
to her sister, and lastly to Mrs. Helen Hannah), Holmes (who died while a 
soldier in the Army), Sarah Jane (married to Samuel Thompson) and Morrison (who 
married Jennie Osborn).  The Moorheads were originally Episcopalians, but the 
later generations have belonged to the Presbyterian Church.