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Murray, David Rodman – Myer, Albert James

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Murray, David Rodman

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born March 13, 1847, in Cloverport, Ky. He graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan. He served in the union army as adjutant of the seventeenth regiment Kentucky volin October, 1865, in mustered out was in October, 1865, in Louisville, Ky.; and subsequently acting assistant adjutant-general of the was second Kentucky brigade. During 1877-81 he served with distinction as a state senator in the Kentucky legislature. He is one of the leading lawyers of Kentucky, and resides in his native city.

Murray, Eli Houston

governor, was born Sept. 12, 1844, in Breckinridge county, Ky. He was for a time United States marshal for Kentucky. In 1880 he was appointed governor of the territory of Utah for the term of four years.

Murray, Ephraim Clark

clergyman, college president, was born Feb. 5, North and South Carolina; and is now various pastorates in the churches of North and South Carolina; and is now the president of the Presbyterian college of South Carolina..

Murray, George Washington

congressman, was born Sept. 22, 1853, near nominated for the fifty-fourth congress by Carolina to the fifty-third, and was re- Carolina to the fifty-third, and was renominated for the fifty-fourth congress by the republicans. -MURRAY, HANNAH LINDLEY, translator, author, was born March 10, 1777, in New York city. She painted, wrote verses and hymns, and, aided by her sister, composed a poem in eight books on the Restoration of the Jews. She died July 3, 1836, in New York city.

Murray, James Ormsbee

educator, author, was born in 1827. He is an educator, professor of English literature in Princeton college, and dean of the college from 1886. He is the author of Life of Francis Wayland.

Murray, John

congressman, was born in Lancaster, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1821.

Murray, John

clergyman, author, was born May 22, 1742, in Ireland. He held presbyterian pastorates in Philadelphia, Boothbay, Maine, and Newburyport, cation; and Sermons on the Original Sin Mass. He published Sermons on Justification; and Sermons on the Original Sin Imputed. He died March 13, 1793, in Newburyport, Mass.

Murray, John L

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1838 to 1839.

Murray, John O'Kane

physician, author, was born Dec. 22, 1847, in Ireland.

He was a physician and author of New York city; and the author of Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Catholic Pioneers of America; Lessons in English Literature; United States; Catholic Pioneers of The Prose and Poetry of Ireland; Little Lives of the Great Saints; and Catholic Heroes and Heroines of America. He died July 30, 1885, in Chicago, Ill.

Murray, John Young

physician, surgeon, legislator, was born May 6, 1829, in McNairy county, Tenn. He has filled the principal offices of his town, county and state; has held, among other posi- the principal offices of his town, county tions, that of county treasurer, sheriff, and served with distinction as a member tions, that of county treasurer, sheriff, of the Mississippi state legislature. Since practice of his profession, and has at- 1849 he has been actively engaged in the tained prominence as one of the leading physicians of the south. He has been president of the Mississippi State Medical association; president of the Tri-State Medical association, which includes the states of Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. He has been grand master and grand high priest of Masons of Mississippi; and is well known throughout the state as a man of scholarly attainments and integrity.

Murray, Lindley

educator, author, was born April 22, 1745, near Lancaster, Pa. He was a famous grammarian whose life after 1784 was passed near York, England. He was the author of Grammar of the English Language; Power of Religion on the Mind; and Compendium of Relig- 1826, in England. 1826, in England.

Murray, Nicholas

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 25, 1802, in Ireland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Elizabeth, N. J., famous in his day as a controversialist; and the author of Letters by Kirwan to Bishop Hughes; Romanism at Home; Men and Things; The Happy Home; Preachers and Preaching; and Parish and Other Pencillings. He died Feb. 4, 1861, in Elizabethtown, N. J.

Murray, Richard A

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 18, 1833, in Champlain, N. Y. He served as a soldier during the civil war, and was colonel of the ninth regiment Minnesota militia. He is a prominent lawyer of Madison, S. D., where he has filled the office of county judge.

Murray, Robert

surgeon, was born Aug. 6, 1822, in Howard county, Md. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States army in 1846; and received the brevets of lieutenant-colonel and colonel in 1865 for meritorious service during the civil war.

Murray, Robert M

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 28, 1841, in Concord, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-eighth Concord, Ohio. He was elected a reprecongress as a democrat.

Murray, Thomas

congressman, was born in Northumberland county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1823. was a representative in congress from

Murray, William

was born in New York. He was a reprecongressman, sentative in congress from that state from was born in New York. He was a repre- 1851 to 1855.

Murray, William Henry Harri- Son

clergyman, author, was born April 26, 1840, in Guilford, Conn. noted congregational minister, pastor of He was a Park Street church, Boston, in 1868-74; and the author of Adventures in the Wiland the author of Adventures in the Wilderness; Adirondack Tales; Deacons; Sermons from Park Street Pulpit; How Music Hall Sermons; The Perfect Horse; Deacon Tubner Kept New Year's; The Sermons from Park Street Pulpit; How Words Fitly Spoken.

Murray, William Vans

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born in 1762, in Cambridge, Md. He was legislature; and in 1791 was elected a repsoon elected to a seat in the Maryland resentative in congress, and continued in that position until 1797, when he declined being a candidate. He was appointed minister to the Netherlands; and in connegotiated a treaty with France in 1800. nection with Mr. Ellsworth and Mr. Davie, He was the author of a treatise on The Constitution and Laws of the United States. He died Dec. 11, 1803, in Cambridge, Md.

Musick, John Roy

author, poet, was born Feb. 28, 1849, in St. Louis, Mo. He is a novelist and historian of Kirksville, Mo.; and the author of The Banker of Bedford; History Stories of Wisconsin; Mysterious Mr. Howard; and a series of Calamity Row; Brother against Brother; twelve Columbian historical novels, ingustine; Pocahontas; The Pilgrims; A cluding Columbia; Estevan; St. Aubellion; The Witch of Salem; Braddock; Century Too Soon, a story of Bacon's Re- Independence; Sustained Honor; Hum- bellion; The Witch of Salem; Braddock; bled Pride; and Union.

Mussey, Reuben Dimond

physician, author, was born June 23, 1780, in Pelham, N. H. He was a Boston physician who published Health: its Friends and its Foes. He died June 21, 1866, in cian who published Health: its Friends Boston, Mass.

Mussey, William Heberdon

surgeon, educator, was born Sept. 30, 1818, in Hanover. He was a medical inspector in the civil war; professor of operative and clinical surgery in the Miami Medical college, Ohio, in 1865-82; and surgeongeneral of Ohio in 1876. He died Aug. 1, 1882, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 1882, in Cincinnati, Ohio. gressman, was born Dec. 21, 1831, in Northampton county, Pa. In 1860 he was elected prothonotary of his native county, and re-elected in 1863; and was for two years an assessor of internal revenue. In 1869 and 1870 he was chairman of the democratic state committee. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress; and was again a representative in the fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat. seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a democrat.

DER, clergyman, journalist, author. Since 1882 he has been pastor of the Memorial church of Philadelphia. He is the author 1882 he has been pastor of the Memorial The Mongal; The Mikado; and The Missionary.

Mutter, Thomas Dent

physician, author, was born March 9, 1811, in Richmond, Va. In 1841-56 he was professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college. He wrote an account of the salt sulphur springs of Virginia, an essay on Club- Foot, contributed various professional papers to periodicals, and published an edition of Robert Liston's Lecture on the Operations of Surgery, with additions. He died March 16, 1859, in Charleston, S. C.

Muzzey, Artemas Bowers

clergy- Lexington, Mass. He was a unitarian clerman, author, was born Sept. 21, 1802, in gyman of Massachusetts who retired from active ministry in 1865. He was the author of The Blade and the Ear; Prime gyman of Massachusetts who retired from Men's Friend; Moral Teacher; Christ in the Will, the Heart, and Life; The Higher Education; Immortality in the Light of Scripture and Science; Truths Consequent upon Belief in God; and Education of Old Age. He died in 1892.

Myer, Albert James

soldier, author, was born Sept. 20, 1827, in Newburg, N. Y. He was a brigadier-general in the United States army, for some years chief signal officer; and author of Manual of Signals for Use in the Field. He died Aug. 24, 1880, in Buffalo, N. Y.

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