BIOGRAPHIES:  Captain N. O. MURRAY, Lakeport, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by Nance Sampson, Pepin Co. Archives File Manager on 12 January 2004
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CAPT. N. O. MURRAY, owner of steamer "Pepin," Lakeport. Came to Lakeport (near 
Pepin), March 1, 1855, and carried on a blacksmith shop there. At the time he 
came, Lakeport was the largest settlement on Lake Pepin. He is a carpenter by 
trade, and in 1872 built the steamer "Pepin," to run the lake, and with it, 
every season since, the captain has made his daily trips to each of the towns 
on the lake. He was born in Evans, Erie Co., N. Y., Feb. 7, 1832. Lived afterward 
in Buffalo, N. Y.; then eight years in Fox Lake, Dodge Co., Wis.; then came to 
Lakeport. He was married, March 4, 1858, to Miss Mary J. Lenhart, of Lakeport, 
formerly from Pennsylvania. They have six children living-Orlando L., engineer 
on the "Pepin", Ida Belle, Carrie Roberta, Walter, Guy, and Glenn. He has been 
Justice of the Peace several terms, Constable, Sheriff two years, and Under 
Sheriff two years. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the A. O. U. W.

-Transcribed from the "History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881," page 705.


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