Isaac Moorhead and Caroline Hoskinson

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Husband Isaac Moorhead ¹

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           Born: 28 Jan 1828 - Erie, Erie Co, PA 1
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           Died: 4 Jun 1881 - Eaton Rapids, Eaton Co, MI 1
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         Father: Thomas Moorhead (1803-1859) 2 3
         Mother: Rebecca Barnett (1806-1867) 3

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       Marriage: 6 Sep 1853 4

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Wife Caroline Hoskinson ⁴

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         Father: William Hoskinson (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Eleanor [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Ruth Moorhead ⁴

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         Spouse: Fred. Metcalf (      -      ) 4

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2 M Maxwell Wood Moorhead ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Isaac Moorhead

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He received a good academic education. Entered mercantile pursuits for a few years, but relinquished the same owing to his delicate constitution, and accepted the appointment of conductor on the Lake Shore railway, a position he filled almost twenty-eight years, with the exception of several winters, when, obtaining leave of absence, he served as transcribing clerk of the House of Representatives at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In the early part of the year 1880 he was appointed postmaster at Erie. Accommodating, attentive and polite, the appointment was an exceedingly popular one. The relinquishment of an active railroad life for the humdrum cares of official position, was possibly the primary cause of the disease of which he died, at Eaton Rapids, Michigan, whither he had gone for the restoration of his health. In historic research he was deeply interested, and the citizens of Erie are indebted to him for many pleasant reminiscences of their city, over the signature of "John Ashbough." He wrote for the Centennial year a historical review of Erie County, and was the author of the Erie County sketch in Egle's History of Pennsylvania, which contained the best and most lucid account of Perry's battle on Lake Erie extant. In the performance of a great duty, he prepared a genealogy of his own and allied families, and few, in the state possessed as full knowledge as he of the French occupation in western Pennsylvania.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 76.

2 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 616.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 72.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 77.