Bio of Murray, Edward B. (b.1818) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Murray, Edward B., was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1818. His parents
were Edward B. and Margaret Murray. He came to America in 1853; worked
successively in bleaching at Falls River, Massachusetts, in wagon-shop at
Montreal, Canada, and two years as a house-carpenter in Bramford, Canada;
by trade he was a ship-carpenter. He came to Wabasha county in 1855;
having a few hundred dollars, he bought some town lots in Wabasha; erected
a house and resided there until 1857, when he removed to Highland township
and pre-empted one hundred and sixty acres on section 14. He now owns a
farm on section 16 in the same township, on which he resides. He received
a good common school education. The farm on which his parents lived in
Ireland had been in the possession of the Murray family for five hundred
years. Mr. Murray married in Ireland in 1851 to Margaret Bartley, by whom
he had five children, viz: William, Daniel, John, Patrick and Maggy.
Daniel is the only one at home, the three youngest residing with their
mother in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and William is a dealer in
agricultural implements at Minneapolis.