John Moren
John Moren, who has been postmaster at Jeddo, Jefferson County, for the past fourteen years, has occupied the same home place for almost seventy-three years, although not continuously, his business interests sometimes calling him to other points for a time. He was born in a little town named Dungannon, in Columbiana County, February 3, 1837, and is a son of James and Catherine (McKirk) Moren.
James Moren and wife were both born in Ireland. When they came first to America, James Moren secured work on the Sandy & Beaver Canal, near New Lisbon, O., with Colonel Riley, a fellow countryman. When their son John was a few months old they came to Jeddo but soon located across the river in West Virginia. In the following spring, James Moren went to Anderson's Landing, just across the river from what is now Toronto, and the place was called Newburg. There Mr. Moren worked in a brick yard and for many years was engaged in tlie brick industry.
When John Moren was old enough he also worked in the brick yard where his father was employed and continued there until he was twenty years of age, when he came again to Jeddo. Here he became a clerk in a general store for Capt. Joseph McCalpin, where he remained for two years and then returned to West Virginia and later, with his father and Mr. Suter and Mr. Price, organized the J. Moren & Co. Brick Company, the plant being at Holbert's Run. John Moren remained in the brick business there for two years and then, for two more years was in partnership with Thomas Anderson in operating a boat for brick transportation on the Ohio River between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Mr. Moren then became identilied with the firm of Freeman Brothers & Company, in the sewer-pipe and brick industry and was in that business for fifteen years.
Mr. Moren married Miss Melissa Hood, a daughter of James and Eliza (Oliver) Hood, and they have four children: Ella, who is the wife of G. S. Stokes, of Philadelphia; John, who is in the sewer-pipe business at Patton, Pa.; Caddie, who is the wife of Fred Morrow, of Jeddo; and Charles, who looks after the home farm of six acres. Mr. Moren has a commodious and comfortable residence on this land which lies just south of the corporation lines of Toronto. The postoffice is Markle, but for those who have lived in this section for years the old name of Jeddo seems more natural and home-like. Mr. Moren is one of the best known men up and down the river in this locality.
From 20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio, by Joseph B. Doyle. Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1910