Columbia-Cumberland County PA Archives Biographies.....MOOREHEAD, George E. 1826 - living in 1899
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  GEORGE E. MOOREHEAD. Among the prosperous and enterprising citizens of the town
  of Berwick, a man highly respected for his many sterling qualities, is the
  subject of this narrative, who is foreman of the pipe foundry of The Jackson &
  Woodin Manufacturing Company. He was born at Pine Grove, Cumberland County, Pa.,
  September 29, 1835, and is a son of William B. and Susan (Deemer) Moorehead,
  arid grandson of Edward Moorehead.
  
    Edward Moorehead the grandfather of our subject, was the father of a large
  family of children, one of whom was William B., the father of our subject, who
  learned the trade of a molder and followed it all his life. Mr. Moorehead, with
  Mr. Samuel Henry, moved to the town of Foundryville, Pa., and there engaged in
  the making of stoves, bells, plows, etc. They carried on that business for two
  years when they dissolved partnership and our subject's father moved to York,
  Pa., where he again took up with his former business. He passed from this life
  at the age of fifty-seven years. He was united in wedlock to Susan Deemer, a
  daughter of Peter Deemer, a prominent man of York Springs, Pa., and a shoemaker
  by trade. Mr. Deemer retired from active life at the age of seventy-two years,
  and died aged ninety-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Moorehead reared a family of seven
  children, namely: Amanda L.; George E.; Samuel J., who died in his childhood
  days; William T., a veteran of the Civil War; John M.; James H., also a veteran
  of the Rebellion; and Elizabeth.
  
    George E. Moorehead attended the primary schools during his boyhood and at the
  age of fifteen years he began to learn the trade of a molder from his father. He
  served an apprenticeship to the molder's trade for three years and then worked
  at Philadelphia, Foundryville, Scranton and Wyoming as a journeyman until 1857,
  when he removed to Berwick and worked in the moulding department of The Jackson
  & Woodin Manufacturing Company for about one year. He then found employment in
  York, Riceville, Pa., and Baltimore, Md., for several years, and in 1864 he
  returned to Berwick and took up his former position. In 1884 our subject was
  made foreman of the pipe foundry, which is one of the largest industries of its
  kind in the state. He has as high as 100 men under his management and they cast
  from three to sixteen-inch water pipes, and four to sixteen-inch flange or
  mining pipes, which are from one-half to two inches in thickness, and these
  pipes are put under 300 pounds' hydraulic pressure before shipping. The foundry
  also turns out lamp and hitching posts.
  
    Mr. Moorehead chose for his life companion Falla B. Garney, a daughter of
  Barney Garney who was a resident of Wyoming, Pa. Mrs. Moorehead entered the
  unknown beyond at the age of fifty-five years, leaving a large family of
  children, a kind husband, and a large number of friends to mourn her death.
  Their children were as follows: John, a molder of Berwick, who married Priscilla
  Shea who bore him four children, namely,—Nellie, Ruth, Frank, and Philip; Ella,
  who is the wife of Joseph Sherwood and the mother of two children, Florence, and
  Austin; Bernard, who wedded Catherine Krull, and one child blesses their home,
  Ernest; George, a molder by trade, united in wedlock to Annie Furnian, and they
  are the parents of four children,— Olive, Elizabeth, Richard, and Curtis; Mary,
  wife of William Lynville, having one child, Lettie M.; and Harriet. Our subject
  is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Berwick. He is also a member of
  the Knights of the Golden Eagle.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
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