Biographical Sketch of Thomas J. Murray, Greene County, Missouri,
Springfield

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of W. C. and Malinda (Stone) Murry, and was
born December 5, 1857, two and one-half miles southwest of Ash Grove,
Greene county, Mo.  He was educated in the country schools and at Ash
Grove.  In the fall of 1880 he taught school upon Leeper prairie, and
from January 1, 1881 until November, 1882, read law in the office of
W. H. Davis, and was there admitted to the bar by Judge Geiger.  He is
a young man of much promise and is building up a good practice.  His
parents are yet living in this county.  They came from Monroe county,
Tennessee, and located in Dade county, Mo., in 1854, and in the summer
of 1855 they came to this county.  They had nine children, five sons
and four daughters, Thomas J., being the oldest child.

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