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Immediately after graduating, he accepted the position of Principal of the
Grammar School at Troy, Ohio, where he remained one year. In the Fall of 1865, he
received an appointment to the Superintendency of the Public Schools of Sidney, Ohio,
which position he occupied for three years. In the Fall of 1868, he accepted an invitation
to become Principal of one of the Ward Schools at Columbus, Ohio; but in December of
the same year, he resigned the position and accepted a similar one at Dayton, Ohio, the
call being considerably louder financially. He remained here for three years. In the
Summer of 1871, being tired of teaching, and with not the best of health, he was glad of
the opportunity for a change, and accepted an invitation to assume the management of
the Bank located at Perrysburg, Ohio.
The panic of 1873 brought the proprietors of this bank into embarrassing straits,
and their failure in 1877 caused them to retire from the banking business, to which he
succeeded, and he has since that time conducted the business of the Citizens' Bank on
his own account, with both pleasure and profit. At the time of the failure in 1877, he
suffered some in purse and feeling, but subsequent experiences have made good any
loss therefrom, and contain prophecy of greater benefits to follow. He has built for himself a
very comfortable home at Perrysburg, and knows of no reason why he will not spend the
remainder of his days there. As is fitting for our "monitor," he has evidently devoted
himself to making his own mark in the world.
He is a member of the Presbyterian church. In politics, he is a Republican.
He was married December 18, 1868, to Miss Lida McCullough Murray, of Sidney,
Ohio. They have had six children: George Murray, born November 9, 1869; Myra
Hamilton, born October 1, 1871; Bessie Murray, born March 10, 1874;
Fred. Green, born February 8, 1876; Raymond Evans, born June 3, 1877, and Luther Nelson, born January
24, 1882.
Fred. Green died July 29, 1876.
His eldest son, George Murray, is now studying in New Hampshire to prepare
himself to enter Dartmouth College in 1885.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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