Dr. Matthew T. Moorehead, a successful medical practitioner of Plainfield, was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, December 14, 1860, his parents being Samuel and Elizabeth (Graham) Moorehead, the former a native of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania. Samuel Moorehead was a lad of eight years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Muskingum county, Ohio, where he was reared and married. He was a carpenter by occupation and built the first gristmill in Muskingum county. His death occurred in 1893 when he was eighty-four years of age, and his wife passed away in 1881, when sixty years of age. Unto this worthy couple were born four children, namely: John G., of Seattle, Washington; James C. who resides in Stafford, Kansas; Samuel L., who is in the United States secret service at San Francisco, California; and Matthew T., of this review.

The last named acquired a common-school education in Bloomfield, and subsequently pursued his studies in the McCorkle College at Bloomfield, conducted under the auspices of the Social Reform Presbyterian church. Determining upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he entered the Cincinnati (Ohio) Medical School in 1883 and was graduated from that institution in 1889. He has been compelled to work his way through college, thus early manifesting the strong purpose and laudable ambition which have ever spurred him onward and upward. On the 8th of August, 1889, he arrived in Plainfield with but sixty cents in his pocket, and that he has since gained standing and prominence in the ranks of the medical fraternity here is indicated by his large and profitable patronage. Among the young men who have read medicine under his supervision and who are now practicing successfully may be mentioned Dr. Hahn, who is located at Tiverton Center. W. C. Kinner, who studies in his office for two years, was graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and is now practicing at Adamsville, Ohio. Dr. Moorehead owns two hundred and twenty-seven acres of rich and valuable land in Linton township, and likewise has a beautiful residence in Plainfield. He is a stockholder and director in the People's Bank of Coshocton, and is well known and highly esteemed as one of the substantial and enterprising citizens of the county, his success being all the more creditable by reason of the fact that it has been achieved entirely through his own efforts.

In 1897 Dr. Moorehead was joined in wedlock to Miss Mary S. Talmage, a native of Coshocton county, her parents being Henry and Mary (Williams) Talmage. By this union there are four children: Laura Lenora, Mathew Talmage, James Raymond and Helen Rose.

In his political views Dr. Moorehead is a stalwart republican, while fraternally he is connected with Plainfield Lodge, No. 224, A. F. & A. M., and Plainfield Lodge, No. 776, I. O. O. F., both of Plainfield. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the United Presbyterian church, while his wife is identified with the Methodist Episcopal denomination.

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