Moorhead, J. C. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 511, Bernadotte Township
J. C. Moorhead, farmer, sec. 15, Bernadotte township; P. O., Lewistown; was born in Indiana Co., Penn., Sept. 3, 1840. In 1844 he moved to Ohio, and from there to Mo., from which place he came to Illinois in 1860, and settled in this county in 1863; joined the 99th Ill. Vol., Co. A, Aug., 1862; discharged at Rolla, Mo. Has served as Collector for this township two terms; also is Assessor for his second term. Was married Dec. 8, 1864, at Lewistown, to Miss Manola L. Randall; three of the four children born to the parents are living, viz: Mary L., James C. and Willie C. His wife is a member of the M. E. Church. He is a tinner by trade, which occupation he followed at Lewistown until the past six years, which time he has followed farming in this township. Democrat.