BIO: James K. MOOREHEAD, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 230.
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  MOOREHEAD, GEN. JAMES K., of Pittsburgh, died March 6, 1884.  He was 
born in Halifax, Dauphin county, seventy-eight years ago, and after 
obtaining a good business education began a connection with the public 
improvement of the State, which was only severed by his death.  When 
only twenty-two years old he was appointed superintendent of the 
Juniata branch of the Pennsylvania canal.  He afterwards established 
the Pioneer Passenger Packet Line, running between Pittsburgh and 
Philadelphia.  In 1839 he was appointed adjutant general of the State, 
but declined the office.  In 1858 General Moorehead was elected to 
Congress by the Republicans of the Twenty-first Congressional district, 
and retained that position until 1869, when he refused to be again a 
candidate.  During the last three terms of his service in Congress he 
was chairman of the committee on manufactures, and a member of the ways 
and means and on naval affairs.  The Moorehead tariff bill was 
formulated and reported by a sub-committee of which General Moorehead 
was chairman, and in its main features remained the tariff law until 
the last revision.  At the time of his death General Moorehead was 
president of the Chamber of Commerce and also of the Monongahela 
Navigation Company.