Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Murray, Augustus O 1832 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Augustus O. Murray, grain and lumber, Mazon Center, was born February 9, 1832, 
in Oswego County, N. Y. When he was three years old, his parents, Jonathan C. 
and Permelia M. Murray, removed to Illinois and settled in Mazon Township, 
Grundy County, seven years before the organization of the county. The father 
is remembered as one of the first men in the early enterprises of the county. 
He was drowned in the month of June, 1844; the mother died in Ottawa, Ill., in 
February, 1770. Subject was married, October 18, 1852, to Miss Lydia A. Isham, 
of Vermont, born May 15, 1835. They have a family of two sons and five 
daughters - Louis R., born March 6, 1859, married to Sarah E. Riggall December 
25, 1881; Ella L., born December 16, 1860, married to Fred Kingman December 
31, 1879; Hettie P., born August 24, 1862; Frank A., July 10, 1864; Gertie E., 
September 4, 1868; Eva W., February 16, 1871; and Maud, May 22, 1876. Mr. 
Murray owns 430 acres of cultivated land in Sections 23, 25, 26, and 33 of 
Mazon, also 110 acres in Black Hawk County, Iowa. He is associated with O. H. 
Fuller in the grain and lumber trade at Mazon Center, of which place he is a 
resident. Mrs. Murray is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the 
village of Mazon. Mr. Murray is an ultra temperance advocate.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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