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Below is a family biography included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.   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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R. J. MURRAY, M. D., Sewickley, was born June 13, 1845, in Pittsburgh, Pa. His paternal grandfather, John Murray, was of Scotch descent, and a merchant of County Armagh, Ireland, his native county; he married a Mrs. Campbell, and they reared a large family, of which Capt. John Murray was one, born in 1810, and died early in the year 1889. He came to America in 1828, and settled in this county; lived in Pittsburgh many years. When still a boy he went on the river as a steward on the Home during a great flood; he steamboated about thirty years; was employed by the firm of Stone & Bros, twenty-five years as engineer. He owns two hundred acres of land in Ohio township, where he resides. He was married to Miss Eliza, daughter of James Graham, and they have five children: Dr. Robert J. (our subject), Albert W., William G., Rev. John F. and Mrs. Millie J. Watson. Mr. Murray has been an active member of the Blackburn Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty years; politically he is a republican; he is a member of the I. O. O. F. The subject of this memoir was educated at the Pittsburgh and Sewickley academies; subsequently read medicine with Dr. McCready, of Sewickley, and Dr. F. Maury, of Philadelphia. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in class of 1867, and located at Sewickley, where he has an extensive practice. He was married to Miss Ellen S., youngest daughter of Rev. Robert Hopkins; she died July 25,1886, leaving five children: Lydia M., Charles S., Eugene, Raymond and Jessie. A medical work on hygiene and his European letters to the press bear evidence of Dr. Murray’s literary abilities. Politically he is a republican.

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This family biography is one of 2,156 biographies included in the History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania published in 1889 by A. Warner & Co.

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