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served as an agent for the American Tract society during his student days, and was ordained by the presbytery of Susquelianna, Nov. 4, 1829. He was pastor at Wilkesbarre and Kingston, Pa., 1829-33 ; and at Elizabethtown, N.J., 1853-61. He was secretary of the Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Clmrch in 1835, moderator of the general assembly, 1849, and a founder of the New Jersey Historical society. He was a trustee of Princeton theological seminary, 1835-61 : a direc- tor, 1836-61 ; and a trustee of Williams college, 1860-4)1. He received the degree D.D. from Wil- liams college in 1843. In 1847 he wrote over, the signature " Kirwan " a series of letters published in the New York Observer, to Archbishop Hughes, in which he attacked the doctrine of the Roman Catliolic church. These resulted in a controversy between the two. Bishop Hughes's letters being published in the Freeman's Journal. He delivered several lectures on " Popery," and in 1851 and 1860 visited Ireland, where he preached and lectured against the Roman Catholic church. He was married in January, 1830, to Eliza J., daughter of the Rev. Morgan John Rliees of Pennsylvania. He is the author of : Notes, His- torical and Biographical, concerning Elizabeth- town. N.J. (I844j; Letters to the Right Rev. John Hughes (1848, enlarged edition 1855) ; Romanism at Home (1852); Men and Things as I saw them in Europe (1853); Parish and Pencillings (1854); Tlie Happy Home (1859); Preachers and Preaching (1860), and ^ Dying Legacy to the People of my Beloved Charge, sermon (ISQl). See Memoir by Samuel I. Prime (1862). He died in Elizabeth- town, N.J., Feb. 4, 1861.

MURRAY, Robert, surgeon-general, was born in Howard county, Md., Aug. 6, 1822; son of Daniel and Mary (Dorsey) Murray; grandson of Dr. James and Sarah (Maynadier) Murray and of Edward and Elizabeth Dorsey, and a descendant of Dr. William Murray, born in Scotland, who came to Cambridge, Maryland, in 1716, and of Col. Edward Dorsey, born in Essex county, England, who came to St. Mary's county, Md., about 1645. He was graduated from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1843 ; was appointed assistant .surgeon U.S.A., June 29, 1846; cap- tain and assistant surgeon in 1851, and major and surgeon, June 23. i860. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and colonel, March 13. 1865, for faithful and meritorious services during the war. He was appointed assistant medical pur- veyor and lieutenant-colonel, U.S.A., 1866; was promoted colonel and surgeon, June 20, 1870 ; colonel and assistant surgeon-general. Dec. 14, 1882 ; brigadier-general and surgeon-general, Nov. 23. 1883, and was retired from active service in the army, Aug. 6, 1886. by operation of law. After 1886 he made his home at Eldridge, Md.

MURRAY, Thomas Hamilton, journalist and historian, was born in Brookline, Mass., May 25, 1857 ; son of Robert and Margaret (INIcGinnis) Murray ; grandson of Thomas and Ellen (Mc- Carthy) Murray, and great-grandson of Luke and Mary (Porter) Murray. His fatlier was born in Cork county, Ireland, and his mother at Corn- wallis. Nova Scotia, of Irish parentage. He was educated in the schools of Brookline, Newton, Cambridge and Boston, Mass.; engaged in daily journalism at Boston for several years ; edited daily papers in Providence. R.I., Bridgeport and Meriden. Conn., Lasvrence, Mass., and Woon- socket, R.I.; was one of the founders of the American-Irish Historical society in 1897, and was elected secretary-general of the same. He was married, April 13, 1885, to Mary H. Sullivan of Boston, Mass. He is the author of many papers on historical, genealogical, literary and educa- tional subjects, and in collaboration with the Hon. John C. Linehan of Concord, N.H., wrote : Irish Schoobnasters in the American Colonies, 1G40-1775 (1898), and with George Washington of Dublin, Ireland, The Irish Wash- ingtons at Home and Abroad (1898). Among his published papers are : The Libraries of Boston (1882) ; The Old Schoolmasters of Boston (1884); The Maso7i Name in New England History (1884) ; The TJiayers in AmeHca (1884) ; Thirty Historic American Families (1889) ; The Irish Chapter in the History of Brown University {18%) ; The Irish Soldiers in King Philip's TT ar, 1675-6 (1896) ; The Dempsey Name, Old and Puissant (1896) ; Some Patricks of the American Revolution (1897) ; Five Colonial Rhode Islanders (1897) ; The Irish Mur- ray s and Tlieir American Descendants (1900) ; Tlie Romance of Sarah Alexander (mother of Commodore Perry) (1901); The Story of Miss Fitzgerald, Dartmouth, Mass., 16S7 (1901) ; Rich- ard Dexter, Irishman, Massachusetts Bay Colo- nist, 1641 (1902).

nURRAY, William Henry Harrison, author, was born in Guilford, Conn., April 20, 1841 ; son of Dickinson and Sally (]\Iunger) Murray ; grand- son of Calvin and Diadema (Norton) Murray and of Chauncey Munger ; great-grandson of John Murray, and a descendant of John Murray, a Scottish Highlander, who came to America in 1635, and of Tlieodore Munger, who came over with the original settlers to Guilford in 1638. He was fitted for college at Guilford institute ; was graduated from Yale, A. B., 1862; studied theology at East Windsor, Conn., and under pri- vate instructors, and became a Congregational minister in 1863. He preached in Connecticut, 1863-68, being acting pastor at Washington, 1863- 64 ; pastor at Greenwich, 1864-66, and at Meriden, 1866-68. He was pastor of the Park Street church. Boston, Mass., until 1874, when he re-