Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Cloud, Jeremiah September 3, 1797 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

   Jeremiah Cloud, retired miller and distiller, 
Carmicheals, Penna, was born in Cumberland Township, Greene 
County, September 3, 1797.  He is a son of Joel Cloud and 
Susannah Carrington Cloud, being the oldest in a family of 
twelve children.  His father was of English-German descent, 
a native of Chester County, Penna, and was both a farmer and 
a cooper.  His mother was of Welsh origin.  He received a 
common school education, and at an early age learned the 
hatter's trade which he followed until he attained his 
majority.
  
      He was married by Rev William Barley October 3, 1822, 
to Jane Morgan, daughter of John Morgan and Sarah Wright 
Morgan, who were of English descent.  Three of his seven 
children are now living: Thomas Cloud, a farmer; Marion 
Cloud, a millwright; and Sarah Ellen Cloud, wife of Joseph 
Everly.
  
      At the age of twenty one, Mr Cloud engaged with his 
father in the distillery business, in which he continued for 
a period of twenty years. By reason of the meagre facilities 
of that early day, the distilling art being then in its most 
primitive state, they could make but slow progress, one 
barrel a day being considered a big day's work.  A grist 
mill was erected by him in 1846 which for many years was a 
great convenience and benefit to the people of his 
neighborhood.  He retires from the cares of an active 
business life at an advanced age.  Mr Cloud is the owner of 
203 acres of valuable farming land in Cumberland Township. 
He is a self-made man, his success in life being due largely 
to his strong will and remarkable energy.  He has been an 
enthusiastic Republican ever since the party was organized; 
and so steadfast was he in the support of Republican 
principles that he was never prevailed upon but once to vote 
for a Democrat.  He was an active politician but neither 
desired nor held an office.  His thorough knowledge of 
politics, however, made him a very popular leader of his 
party.  Mr Cloud was reared a Quaker, and although he never 
joined any religious denomination, his sympathies were with 
the Society of Friends, of whose doctrines he has ever been 
an earnest advocate.  Mrs Cloud, deceased, was a zealous 
member of the Baptist Church. 

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