BIOGRAPHY: Henry A. MOODIE, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, page 718

  HENRY A. MOODIE,  Wagner, Mifflin county, Pa., was born in Milton, 
Northumberland county, Pa., January 11, 1832, son of Joseph and Mary (Eckbert) 
Moodie.  Robert Moodie, his grandfather, was a cabinet-maker of Northumberland 
county.  His children are:  Isaac, died unmarried at Pottsville, Pa.; Joseph; 
Charles, married and resides in Northumberland county; Robert; Mary (Mrs. David 
Blair), of Philadelphia; Hannah, married and resides in Baltimore; and two whose 
names we have not obtained.  Joseph Moodie attended the public schools and an 
academy, and then turned his attention to tanning, which was his life-long 
occupation.  He was married in 1829 to Mary, daughter of Henry and Catharine 
(Fox) Eckbert.  Their children are:  Henry A.; and William.  The latter married 
Valeria Trout, and resides in Washington, D.C.  They have four children.  Joseph 
Moodie was killed in an accident in 1835.  He was a good citizen, and a 
consistent Christian, esteemed by all who knew him.  Mrs. Moodie died in April, 
1892, aged eighty-three years.  She was a member of the Lutheran church.
  Henry A. Moodie attended the public schools until he was fifteen years old; he 
then attended the Lewisburg Academy for two terms.  For seven years he held the 
situation of clerk in a store.  In 1852 he began business for himself, in 
Milton, Pa., as a merchant.  In 1861 he removed to Ashland, Schuylkill county, 
where he continued in mercantile pursuits.  He also became manager of a 
colliery.  In 1869 he associated with M. L. Buckley, under the firm name of  H. 
A. Moodie & Co., and began to operate the Preston collieries.  They sold out 
their interest to the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, in 1872.  
Mr. Moodie, however, again invested in mining enterprises until 1880, when he 
began the manufacture of lumber in Mifflin county.  He is also one of the firm 
of Gibboney & Moodie, in Wagner.  Mr. Moodie is a Republican.  He is a faithful 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church.