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Edward Moran (19 Aug. 1829-9 June 1901), painter, was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England, the son of Thomas Moran and Mary Higson, home handloom weavers.
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Edward was the elder brother of the painters Peter, John, and Thomas Moran. Moran joined his parents working at the handloom at an early age. The Moran parents, like other home textile workers of the time, supplemented their income with work from their children.
In April 1844 the family immigrated to the United States, landing in Philadelphia, and soon settled in Baltimore, Maryland, where the elder Moran was employed in a textile factory.
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In 1845 Thomas Moran, Sr., moved the family to Kensington, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. After briefly trying other occupations, including carpentry and house painting, Edward Moran returned to the textile industry, not as a weaver but tending a power loom.
After he had worked at the factory for seven years, Moran's supervisor (who, according to family legend, found Moran drawing instead of t