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Below is a family biography included in The History of Cherokee County, Kansas included within the History of Kansas by William G. Cutler, published by A. T. Andreas, 1883.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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JOSEPH A. MURRAY, general merchant, was born in Indiana, in 1840. At the age of twenty-one, he began teaching school, and continued in that occupation several years. He was then Superintendent of Schools in Pike County, Ind., three years and taught in the Normal School three years, and in the High School in Davis County one year, He then came to Kansas, and engaged in the ministry two years, and was then Superintendent of Schools two years, in 1873-74. Then engaged in mercantile business until 1877, when he spent a year in Illinois, engaged in preaching. He returned to Kansas in 1878, and has been in mercantile business since that time. He has been largely instrumental in organizing schools and churches, and has a large interest in real estate in Columbus and Cherokee County. He was married to R. J. Rivers, of Washington, Ind., in 1862, by whom he had five children. His wife died in June, 1876. He was married to Miss Nancy S. Howerton, of Missouri, in 1878. They have one child— Minnie A.

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This family biography is one of 289 biographies included in The History of Cherokee County, Kansas included within the History of Kansas by William G. Cutler, published by A. T. Andreas, 1883.  For the complete description, click here: Cherokee County, Kansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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