Judge John H. Moorehead Examining Judge Moorehead family tree, one can quickly see that he came by his pioneer spirit naturally. His father, Thomas Moorehead of Sharpsburg Maryland. had been born three years after the United States won its independence and eight generations back. one could find Isaac Chapline an ensign in 'the Royal Navy who had come to America in 1610 in the Kings Council under Lord Delaware. John H. Moorhead grew up in Zanesville Ohio where as a young man, he worked for local millers disposing of their flour. Compelled by far-away places he traveled to California by way of Panama, returning by Cape Horn The trip fired him to travel west to settle in the open country looking backward to the east long enough to marry Martha Catherine Forrest Good of Martinsburg West Virginia October 15, 1844, he soon moved to Iowa City where he built a farm In the spring of 1856 he crossed Iowa to settle in Ida County. arriving June 16