Five years after his birth, his parents moved to Philadelphia, where he
was reared to his nineteenth year, receiving a good practical education
in the schools of that city, and also acquiring an excellent knowledge of
mercantile business in his father's store. In 1840 he came to Missouri
and was employed in selling goods in Richmond, Ray county, in which he
continued about one year. ON the 13th of May, 1841, he was married to
Miss Ann E. Miller, of Howard County, after which he engaged in farming
in this county. Coming of the family he did, and possessed of the
qualities of industry, frugality, and superior intelligence he was, it
was to have been expected that he would succeed as a farmer, or, indeed,
in any line to which he might give his attention. The result has been
that he soon became one of the leading farmers of the county, and, by
good management and enterprise, accumulated a handsome estate. He
followed farming until 1865, when, having moved to Glasgow the year
before, he withdrew from all active pursuits, and now, with an ample
competence, and in the midst of fmaily and friends, he is leading a life
of ease and honorable retirement.

"Age sits with decent grace upon his visage,
And worthily becomes his silver locks;
He bears the marks of many years well spent,
Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience."

Both Mr. and Mrs. Morehead are consistent and exemplary members of the
Baptist church. Mr. M. is also a member of Lodge No. 51, A.F. and A.M.
and of the I.O.G.T. Mrs. M. was born in this county in October, 1823. Her
father was a native of Kentucky, and her mother was originally from
Virginia. Mr. Morehead is a public-spirited citizen, and, by his
enterprise and liberality, Glasgow and the whole western part of the
county have often been materially and greatly benefited. He has not only
striven for his own prosperity, but he has exerted himself on all proper
occasions for the prosperity of the whole community in which he lives,
and his life thus far has been more than ordinarily a useful and valuable
one. (from History of Howard and Cooper Counties, St. Louis National
Historical Company, 1883)

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