BIO: George Murray, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

388  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

  GEORGE MURRAY was born near Fort Pitt, western Pennsylvania, March 
17, 1762, and was the only child of William and Susanna (Sly) Murray.  
He was left an orphan, and in early life settled in Carlisle, where he 
died May 6, 1855, in his ninety-fourth year.  On the 21st of June, 
1804, he was married, by the Rev. Dr. Davidson, to Mary Denny, daughter 
of William and Agnes (Parker) Denny, and sister of Maj. Ebenezer Denny, 
of Revolutionary fame, who was born in Carlisle March 6, 1778, and 
there died April 10, 1845, in her sixty-eighth year.