Moses Corey and Lydia Adams

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Husband Moses Corey ¹

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           Born: 9 Jun 1806 1
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         Father: Benijah Corey (1778-1870) 2
         Mother: Deborah Talferd Williams (1780-1872) 1

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Wife Lydia Adams ³

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         Father: James Adams, Sr. (1770-1851) 4 5
         Mother: Rachel Black (Abt 1775-1866/1868) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Moses Corey

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He was born on the present site of New York City. At the age of seventeen years he came to Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, with his parents, and there learned the millwright's trade from his father, as did his brother Alfred. As soon as he and his brother had attained manhood, they established themselves as contractors and constructed several sections of the Sandy and Beaver canals. In 1839 they took the contract for constructing lock and dam No. 2, across the Monongahela river, at Port Perry, Pennsylvania, and moved their families down there from Edinburg, Mercer County. Charles Wesley Corey, another brother, moved his family there at the same time. After the completion of this lock and dam, Alfred and Moses Corey decided they would invest their profits from this enterprise in the mercantile business. They went to New York City in order to buy a stock of goods, this being their first visit to the city since they had left it in 1823. Huge houses and hotels were now standing on the ground which they had cleared with such effort, and they realized there had been a great lack of foresight. Subsequently, Alfred and Moses Corey agreed to pay nine thousand dollars for the Braddock farm and seven thousand dollars for the Oliver farm in Allegheny county. Moses was given the choice of the farms, but he refused to take either, saying he had grubbed enough, and if Alfred chose to "blow in" his share of the money they had earned, he could do so. They discussed this matter all night long, and Alfred went to the city of Pittsburgh the next day, and forfeited the five hundred dollars which he had paid as a deposit. The two farms are now covered with costlier structures than those which covered the New York farms in 1846. Upon their return from New York City with their stock of goods, the Corey brothers applied themselves to mercantile interests, but Alfred soon tired of this form of business life, and sold his stock to Samuel Walker, father-in-law of the late James G. Blaine, taking his notes in payment; Walker failed, and paid the notes with a bankrupt ticket. Moses Corey, being unsuccessful in his store in Pittsburgh, traded his stock of goods for the lease of a coal mine under Mount Washington, one of the wards of the city of Pittsburgh. [GPHWP, 655]

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 655.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 654.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 658.

4 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 487, 492.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 765, 1012.