Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Murray, John 1838 - 
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JOHN MURRAY, who is numbered among the most extensive farmers and stock-raisers of
Meeker county, is one of the pioneers of 1857. During that year he made his first
appearance here, and immediately took up a claim of 100 acres upon section 36,
Forest City township, where he now resides. To his original farm he has added from
time to time, until be has now one of the finest properties in the county, extending
into the three townships of Dassel, Darwin and Forest City, embracing something like
800 acres.

  Mr. Murray is a native of that “Gem of the Sea,” Ireland, and was born in the year
1838. At the age of fourteen years, he left his native home and came alone to the
United States. Arriving in New York, the young emigrant, after a few months spent in
the metropolis, came out West, and spent the next five years in the city of Chicago.
From there he came to this county by way of Minneapolis, and on his arrival,
settled, and has ever since made this his home. During the Indian outbreak of 1862,
he took his family to a place of safety, but soon returned to help in the defense of
his home. He has always been engaged in agriculture, and still follows that
avocation.

   Mr. Murray was married in March, 1857, to Miss Margaret Flynn, a native of the
Emerald Isle, born in 1835. By this union there have been born a family of nine
children, whose names are as follows— John, Michael, Thomas, William, James, Daniel,
Catharine, Ellen and Margaret. John, the only one not single, married Miss Lizzie
Hughes, and is a farmer.

   In his political views Mr. Murray coincides with the democratic party, and
accepts their doctrines and principles. In religion he is a zealous Roman Catholic,
and socially is a genial hospitable gentleman, like all the Celtic race, and one
whom it is a pleasure to meet.


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Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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