Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: MURRAY, Charles A. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 114-115


CHARLES A. MURRAY.

	The high standing of Charles A. Murray as a representative of the 
Denver bar is attested by the court reports, which give indication of 
the many favorable verdicts that he has won for his clients. He is a 
strong and forceful lawyer, well informed on all branches of 
jurisprudence, and for nearly thirty years he has been an active 
practitioner in the city in which he still makes his home. He was born 
in Geneseo. New York, March 27. 1851, a son of James and Anna M. 
(Miller) Murray, who were likewise natives of the Empire state. In 1859 
they removed westward to Indiana, establishing their home at Cambridge 
City, where the senior Mr. Murray engaged in farming and stock buying 
but was permitted to enjoy his new home for only a brief period, his 
death occurring in that state in 1866. His widow long survived him and 
died in Denver, Colorado.

	Charles A. Murray of this review is the only surviving member of 
their family of four children. His youthful experiences were those of 
the farmbred boy until he reached the age of eighteen years. During 
that period he was from the age of six a pupil in the district schools 
and later he attended the Fairview Academy and continued his education 
in the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio. He next pursued a four years' 
course In Asbury (now DePauw) University at Greencastle, Indiana, from 
which he was graduated in June, 1875, winning honors in philosophy. 
Taking up the profession of teaching, he was given charge of the high 
school at Connersville, Indiana, where he remained from the fall of 
1875 until the summer of 1877. During this period he devoted the hours 
which are usually termed leisure to the study of law and on the 20th of 
June of the latter year was admitted to the bar. He has never ceased to 
feel the keenest interest in educational work and in 1879 and 1880 was 
a member and secretary of the Connersville school board. He was called 
upon for further service there on the 6th of May, 1884, in his election 
to the office of mayor upon the democratic ticket, being also supported 
by the reform movement in republican ranks. He gave to the city a 
businesslike and progressive administration characterized by needed 
reforms and improvements and his work received the endorsement of his 
fellow townsmen in large measure.

	Mr. Murray's identification with Denver dates from 1889. In that 
year he took up his abode in the city and has since been an active 
member of this bar. He entered into a partnership relation under the 
firm style of Stuart & Murray and the name figures prominently in 
connection with the reports of many of the most important cases tried 
in various courts of the state. Mr. Murray was the leading counsel for 
the defense in the Tuttle-Meenan murder trial at Akron. Colorado, in 
which the six cattle men on trial for murder were all acquitted, two of 
them by the supreme court-a signal victory for Mr. Murray. He was also 
counsel in the fifteen-year contest between A. M. Adams and the wife of 
Bishop Warren over one hundred and sixty acres of land within the city 
limits of Denver, valued at one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The 
case was heard four times in the supreme court of Colorado and was 
eventually won by the Adams family, who were the clients of Mr. Murray. 
The firm of Stuart & Murray also conducted the litigation for the 
Denver Telephone Company vs. the Colorado Telephone Company and the 
case involving two hundred thousand dollars' worth of mining property 
at Leadville between the Brown heirs and the Gordon-Tiger Mining 
Company. For twenty-nine years a member of the Denver bar, Mr. Murray 
throughout the greater part of this period has occupied a place in the 
front ranks of the profession. In no field of endeavor is there 
demanded a more careful preparation, a more thorough appreciation of 
the absolute ethics of life, or of the underlying principles which form 
the basis of all human rights and privileges. Unflagging application 
and intuitive wisdom and a determination to fully utilize the means at 
hand, are the concomitants which insure personal success and prestige 
in this great profession, which stands as the stern conservator of 
justice. Possessing all the requisite qualities of the able lawyer, Mr. 
Murray has given his attention in almost undivided manner to law 
practice and as a lawyer is noted for his integrity as well as for his 
skill in the masterly handling of the causes which are entrusted to his 
care.

	On the 27th of October, 1879, in Connersville, Indiana, Mr. 
Murray was married to Miss Olive H. Hurst, a daughter of Elijah and 
Maria Hurst, of a prominent Indiana family. They have become parents of 
two children. The daughter, Marcia, born in Connersville, Indiana, is a 
graduate of the Denver high school and of the University of Denver and 
is now the wife of William A. Eikenberry, by whom she has three 
children: Ruth, Betty and William Murray. The son, Charles B. Murray, 
was born in Denver in 1892 and was educated at the University of 
Denver, the University of Iowa, and in the Culver Military Academy. 
Experience gained in the latter Institution will prove of great benefit 
to him, for he has volunteered for aviation service in connection with 
the present war and is now a lieutenant in the government service. He 
married Miss Jeannette Norine and has one child, Barbara Murray, born 
in April, 1917. He is a representative of that splendid class of young 
manhood, college bred, who have put behind them all personal interests 
and considerations in order to aid in fighting the battle of democracy 
overseas.

	Charles A. Murray is a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon college 
fraternity. He is greatly interested in community affairs and public 
welfare and he was one of the organizers of the Washington Park Men's 
Club, of which he served for four years as the president. He belongs to 
the Denver Bar Association and the Colorado State Bar Association and 
he and his wife are active members of the Washington Park Methodist 
Episcopal church, in which he is serving as a trustee. He has been an 
active worker in behalf of temperance and in the campaign of 1906 was 
chairman of the Anti-Saloon League of the fourteenth ward of Denver, 
which in connection with other wards of the city voted out the saloons. 
He greatly enjoys travel and with his family spent some time abroad in 
the year 1907. He has no business interests aside from his profession 
save that. In connection with his former law partner, Judge T. B. 
Stuart, and his uncle, DeWitt C. Miller, he owns Lake Eldora, one of 
the most beautiful resorts in the Rocky Mountains, offering an ideal 
summer home. Throughout his entire career he has been actuated by the 
spirit of Lincoln's words: "There is something better than making a 
living-making a life," and he has ever held to the highest standards of 
manhood and citizenship.