Husband Rev. Humphrey Ludwick McMurray 1 2
Born: 18 Feb 1850 - near Boquette, Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 3 4
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Father: William Blain McMurray (1825-1896) 1 2
Mother: Amy Naomi Berlin (1830-1913/1914) 2
Marriage: 13 Jun 1877 5 6
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Wife Elizabeth W. Jenkins 5 6
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Father: Robert Jenkins ( -Aft 1906) 5 7
Mother: Jane Morton ( - ) 7
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1 F Jennie May McMurray 5 6
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Spouse: G. C. Frank ( - ) 6
2 F Emma Berlin McMurray 5 6
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Spouse: John J. Eckfeldt ( - ) 6
Marr: 16 Jan 1908 6
3 M Robert Jenkins McMurray 5 6
Born: 13 May 1887 6
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Died: 3 Jul 1896 - Humboldt Park, Chicago, Cook Co, IL 5 6
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
General Notes: Husband - Rev. Humphrey Ludwick McMurray
He received his rudimentary education in the local public schools, and afterward for some years attended Delmont Academy. He then spent one year at Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, and two years at Thiel College, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He was fitted for the ministry at Capital University and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, where he received a call in the spring of 1877 to the Ligonier parish. The same year he was ordained by the Pittsburgh Synod, and in March, 1877, became the regular pastor of the Ligonier church. This parish consisted of four churches\emdash Ligonier, Youngstown, Latrobe and Derry, and was scattered over a distance of thirty-five miles. Eventually each had its own pastor to whom it paid more salary than the four congregations paid Rev. McMurray. During his pastorate the Ligonier and Latrobe churches were remodeled and enlarged and the Youngstown congregation became entirely free from debt, and this the result of five years' labor. In 1892 he resigned in order to accept a call to Lewisburg and Ithaca, congregations in Preble county, Ohio. During the ensuing eight prosperous and happy years two fine church edifices were erected, and in 1890 Mr. McMurray was sent by the Home Mission Board of the General Council to organize a mission among the Scandinavians of Duluth, Minnesota. His success in this enterprise constituted one of the most remarkable episodes in his career. His work was among people of foreign languages and nationalities, but nevertheless, in a little over four years, he gathered a congregation of eighty-two members, and of one hundred and twenty-five Sunday school scholars, and built a suitable and well-equipped church. In 1894 Mr. McMurray took charge of St. John's Church, McKeesport, and at the end of two years went to Humboldt Park, Chicago. This change of pastorates he always regarded as a mistake, and certainly during his stay there he met with misfortune, the chief of which was the loss of his only son, a promising lad of nine years. In 1898 the Lutheran church of Ligonier, as pastor of which Mr. McMurray had entered upon the work of the ministry, begged him to return to them and he responded to the call. There he spent ten happy, successful years, during which a new edifice was finished and in every way the church and congregation prospered. A nervous break-down, doubtless the result of overwork, caused an eminent physician to order Mr. McMurray to relinquish his labors. Thereafter he lived in retirement, blessed in being able to look back upon more than thirty years of earnest endeavor crowned with spiritual and temporal success.