Shasta County CA Archives Biographies.....Murray, T. F. 1858 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

T. F. MURRAY and his brother, John Murray, are the owners of and are conducting
the French Gulch meat-market, the only business of the kind in the town.

  He is a native son of the Golden West, born within two miles of French Gulch,
November 17, 1858. His parents, Timothy and Catherine Murray, natives of County
Cork, Ireland, came to the United States in 1852, and to California in 1856. He
is one of a family of six children, of whom two sons and a daughter are
deceased, and two sons and a daughter survive. His sister is the wife of John C.
Frank, and resides in French Gulch. The subject of this sketch was reared and
educated in his native place. He learned the blacksmith trade in Redding, and
worked at the business there five years. He was the blacksmith for the Niagara
mine three years. In 1886 he and his brother opened their present business, and
have conducted it successfully since that time. They purchased the pioneer in
eat-market of the town.

  Mr. Murray was married in 1878, to Miss Lovina Dale, a native of the State of
Iowa. To them three children have been born, all in French Gulch, namely: Katie
E., George T. and John C. Mr. Murray is Past Grand of the I. O. O. F. Lodge of
French Gulch, and is also a member of the A. 0. U. W. He is an active,
intelligent and obliging representative son of California. In politics he is
Democratic.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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