BIO: Robert S. MUIRHEAD, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 869.
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  ROBERT S. MUIRHEAD, one of the representative business men at Winburne, Pa., 
where he conducts a hardware store, was born in Scotland, ten miles from the 
historic old city of Glasgow, May 5, 1867, and is a son of John and Martha 
(Shields) Muirhead.
  Robert S. Muirhead came to Winburne when the mines opened here and began to 
dig coal in the first mine opened and continued in the mining business until 
1905, when he invested his earnings in a hardware store and through honest and 
upright dealing has built up a fine trade.  He has spent all of his life since 
coming to America in this place, with the exception of three months, when he 
lived first at Snow Shoe, in Center county.  He is one of a family of eight 
children, six of whom survive, and he was the fourth in order of birth.  One 
brother, John, died in Scotland, when aged seventeen years.  James lives in 
Clearfield, Pa., where he has a family.  Henry is a coal miner.  William, who is 
now employed in a pipe factory at Providence, R. I., lived at Winburne for some 
seven years.  Archie is a grocery merchant at Winburne and Charles is a mine 
worker here.  John the youngest, is deceased.
  Robert S. Muirhead married Miss Margaret Meiklejohn, a daughter of Andrew 
Meiklejohn.  She was born in Scotland and came to America when seven years old.  
They have one son, Andrew, who is a bright lad of ten years.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Muirhead are members of the Presbyterian church.  In politics he is a Democrat.