Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Henry McMurray and Sarah M. "Sadie" McCabe




Husband James Henry McMurray 1 2

            AKA: J. M. McMurray 3
           Born: 1857 2
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         Father: Hervey McMurray (1829-1902) 2 4
         Mother: Emily Mouck (Abt 1829-1894) 2 5


       Marriage: 12 Nov 1885 2



Wife Sarah M. "Sadie" McCabe 6

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         Father: Joseph E. McCabe (      -      ) 3 7
         Mother: Ann Emeline Espey (      -1904) 3 8




Children
1 F Laura B. McMurray 2

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2 M Joseph McMurray 2

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3 M Walter E. McMurray 2

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General Notes: Husband - James Henry McMurray


He entered the mercantile business at McMurrays in 1879, and was post-master for twenty-one years preceding the establishing of the rural free delivery in 1902, when the office was discontinued. He was elected justice of the peace in 1907. He was one of the organizers of, and the president of, the McMurray Telephone Company, and president of the Excelsior Oil and Gas Company, a corporation owned and controlled by the five McMurray brothers. The company had five producing wells on the McMurray tract.

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Sources


1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1065.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 1233.

3 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 926.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1063.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1064.

6 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 926, 1233.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 454, 871.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 454.


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