J. C. MOORHEAD, CLEVELAND, OHIO. General Manager of Lines West of Salamanca.
The son of Joseph B. and Eliza H. Moorhead, the subject of this sketch was born in Moorheadville, Erie County, Pennsylvania, on March 2, 1844. He was educated in the common schools and entered the railway service in 1862 as a telegraph operator on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. From 1865 to 1866 he was chief operator of the "Bee Line," and from 1866 to 1868 Train Dispatcher on the Atlantic & Great Western. In 1868 he returned to the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and was Train Dispatcher on the Erie Division at Cleveland, Ohio, until 1871. He then went to the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis as Train Dispatcher and Train Master at Pittsburg, remaining until 1880, when he was appointed Assistant Division Superintendent of the Michigan Central. In September, 1888, he came to the Erie, then the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio, as Division Superintendent at Gallon, Ohio. In November, 1888, he was promoted to Superintendent of Transportation, with offices at Cleveland, Ohio, and he held this position until January 1, 1891, when he was raised to General Superintendent of the Chicago & Erie, being later made General Manager of Erie Lines west of Salamanca, with headquarters at Cleveland. Mr. Moorhead was married August 8, 1867, to Miss C. M. Leet, of his native city, and with their family they reside in Cleveland, Ohio.


Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.