Hon. James Sharpe Moorhead and Elizabeth W. Singer

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Husband Hon. James Sharpe Moorhead ^{1 2 3}

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         Father: James Moorhead (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Jane Elizabeth Sharpe (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: Aug 1871 4

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Wife Elizabeth W. Singer ^{1 4}

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         Father: Robert W. Singer (1819-      ) 4 5
         Mother: Eleanor Warren (      -      ) 1 4

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Children

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1 F Mary S. Moorhead ⁴

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         Spouse: H. F. Bovard (      -      ) 4

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2 F Eleanor Warren Moorhead ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Lloyd Burrell Huff (1871-1915/1916) 4 6 7 8
           Marr: 21 Jun 1897 2

         Spouse: Gen. Charles Gould Morton (      -      ) 4

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3 F Elizabeth S. Moorhead ⁴

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4 M James Sharpe Moorhead ⁴

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5 M William Singer Moorhead ⁴

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         Spouse: Constance Barr (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. James Sharpe Moorhead

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He was educated at Eldersridge Academy and Washington and Jefferson College, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1868, winning the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He read law with the firm of Stewart & Clark, of Indiana, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bar in 1870. Mr. Clark was his cousin, and afterward became a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The year of his admission to the bar Mr. Moorhead was admitted to practice in Westmoreland County courts, and began the practice of his profession at Greensburg, under his own name. In 1881 he formed a law partnership with John B. Head, who afterward became judge of the Superior Court, and this association continued until 1906, when Robert W. Smith became his partner until 1920, when Mr. Moorhead retired from active practice. Mr. Moorhead never turned aside from his profession to seek political preferment, except once, in 1895, when he was a candidate on the State ticket of the Democrats for Judge of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. This position was in line with his legal abilities, but he was defeated, the state going strongly Republican that year. Mr. Moorhead served as a school director for twelve years.
As a lawyer Mr. Moorhead was equally strong before a court or a jury, or in giving counsel as to the conduct of large business. While his human appeal was apparent in a number of homicide cases, his work was principally in the more dignified and lucrative practice of the civil courts below and the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and the United States. He was particularly successful in the comparatively new branch of litigation growing out of the coal and oil and gas industries. In the case of the Westmoreland and Cambria Natural Gas Company vs. DeWitt et al. (130 Pa. State 235), Mr. Moorhead's contention that a lease for the purpose of drilling for oil or gas is in the nature of an easement with respect to the surface for the purpose of entry, examination and drilling operations, and that the real subject of possession by the lessee is the oil or gas obtained in the land was denied by the lower court, but his contention was sustained by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Of equal or possibly of greater importance from a judicial point of view are the cases of Milligan vs. Dick (107 Pa. State 259); Gumbert's Appeal (110 Pa. State 496); Cunningham's Estate (122 Pa. State 464); ruling cases in all of which Mr. Moorhead was the leading counsel. Many others of importance in which he figured might be cited. Mr. Moorhead's address in memory of the late Chief Justice Mercur (Pa. State Reports 116, p. 25) furnishes an illustration of his legal grasp and his English style, which was exceptional. In spoken or written language, in the form of an address or an argument before the bench or a jury, Mr. Moorhead's
language was always characterized by a finish far superior to that of the average lawyer. "In every forum," an admirer once said, "he advocates his cause with the honesty of a philosopher, the precision of a scholar, and with a dignity becoming the announcement of a judicial mandate." Members of the bar in large cities who have devoted their study and energy to special lines in the law may surpass Mr. Moorhead in those lines, but as an all-around practitioner he had few equals and no superiors. Aside from his professional studies and work he found more time than most lawyers to read history, poetry and the higher fiction, and his professional work was often embellished by classic and poetic references. Mr. Moorhead was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Westmoreland County Bar Association, and a member of the Examining Board of the State for several years, the board appointed by the Supreme Court of the State.
Mr. Moorhead was a director of, and was one of the organizers and founders of, the Westmoreland County Hospital. In politics he was a Democrat. During the First World War he served on various boards and committees. In religion he was a supporting member of the Greensburg Presbyterian Church, of which he was a trustee.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth W. Singer

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from Westmoreland Co, PA

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 163.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 68.

3 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 37.

4 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (SW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 38.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 162.

6 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 525.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 67.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 822.