BIO: Murray, T. C. - b. 1854, Louisville, Jefferson Co, Ky

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"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO 
THE PRESENT;  TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, 
ETC."  CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.  1884.

GREENE CO., IN.
RICHLAND TWP.
PAGE 348

T. C. MURRAY, manufacturer and dealer in boots and shoes, was born in Louisville, Ky., 
June 22, 1854, and is one of only two children living, in a family of ten, born to 
Dennis and Margaret (Coughlan) Murray.  His parents were natives respectively of 
Counties Wexford and Cork, Ireland; were married at Manchester, England, in 1842, and 
four years after this event set sail for the United States.  Mrs. Murray died in 1877, 
but Mr. Murray has since re-married and resides at Bloomfield, working at shoe-making. 
 T. C. Murray removed with his parents to Bloomington, Ind., when two years old, and 
from there to Brown County, in 1857.  He received only ordinary schooling advantages 
in youth, and when yet a boy learned the boot and shoe business of his father.  He 
came with the family to Bloomfield in 1874, and on the 11th day of June, 1876, the
nuptial ceremony of his union with Miss Matilda Doyle, was solemnized.  Mrs. Murray 
bore her husband a family of four children -- Sadie, Mary E., Dennis E. (deceased), 
and J. W.  -- but being afflicted with consumption bore her sufferings 
uncomplainingly, and finally gave up this life for the better one in the year 1883.  
Mr. Murray is among the enterprising young men of Bloomfield, and by strict attention 
to business and doing first-class work, has an established trade which requires his 
entire attention, and which he justly merits.  In politics, he advocates the 
principles of the national Democratic party, and he is the present V. G. of Bloomfield 
Lodge, No. 457, I. O. O. F. He is a member of the Christian Church as was also Mrs. 
Murray.