Representative from Buena Vista county, was born in Vernon, Marion county, Illinois, April 12, 1873. His father was the late Rev. William Morgan Murray, a noted preacher in the Cumberland Presbyterian church of Illinois. His mother Annie E. (Green) Murray, was born in Tennessee. The ancestors originally came from Scotland and Ireland to Virginia. He attended public school at Fairfield, Illinois; high school at Owensville, Indiana; Dixon Business College, Dixon, Illinois, and Purdue University, LaFayette, Indiana. Moved from Owensville, Indiana, to Logan county, Illinois, in May, 1897, where he was married June 27, 1900, to Miss Louie Ethel Keys. They have four girls and one boy. Moved to Storm Lake, Iowa, October 19, 1908, but lived the year of 1911 in Park Rapids, Minnesota. Has followed farming and merchandising but for several years has been successfully engaged in the real estate business. Is a director of the Storm Lake Board of Education, a director of the Storm Lake Chautauqua Association, a member of the Grant Club of Des Moines, a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Mason, a Shriner and a member of the I.O.O.F. and Knights of Pythias. Elected representative in 1914. A republican in politics.
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