John Dodge Morehouse
• Emigration: to Lawrence, MA,, Abt 1874, Nova Scotia. • Employment: as a grocer in partnership with Mr. Farr, 1879, Lawrence, Essex, MA. In 1881 Mr. Farr retired and the grocery was run under John D.'s name until 1899 when he took Charles F. Smith into the business as his partner. In that same year the baking industry was started on a small scale. It soon reached such proportions that the grocery business was disposed of to the Whitman-Hudson Co., and from that time until his death, Mr. Morehouse directed practically all of his attention to the bakery with the result that the establishment gradually widened its field until it became one of the finest and most modern bakeries in Massachusetts. • Census: federal, 1880, Lawrence, Essex, MA. He was listed under the name John Moorehouse as a 25 year old married grocer, born in 1885 in Nova Scotia, with both parents' birthplaces given as Nova Scotia. • Employment: President of the Morehouse Baking Co., incorporated, 1913, Lawrence, Essex, MA. • Organizations: Member of Monadnock Lodge #145, I.O.O.F., and Kearsarge encampment.: Lawrence, Essex, MA. • Religion: an active worker of the Second Baptist Church of which he had been a deacon for a long time: Lawrence, Essex, MA.
John married Mary. (Mary was born in 1856 in Vermont.) John also married Lilla M. Smith about Jul 6, 1885. |
Another name for John was John Moorehouse.