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Born 1813
From Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901)
ANDREW KEACHIE MURRAY.
This well-known and honkjre(l resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was born on the loth of November, 181 3, in Florida, Montgomery county. New York, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Keachie) Alurray, who spent their entire lives in the Empire state. The paternal grandfather, Alexander Murray, a native of Scotland, came to America in colonial days, and became a soldier of the continental army in the Revolutionary war. He afterward drew a pension in recognition of his services. Our subject's maternal grandfather, Andrew Keachie, was also born in Scotland, and fought for American independence as one of the militia men of the Revolution. William Murray, the father of our subject, received but a limited education during his boyhood, and throughout life followed agricultural pursuits, owning and operating a small farm in New York. He was born in 1784. and died in 1852. while his wife was born in 1790, and died in 1822. They were the parents of six children, one of whom died in infancy. The others were
As printed in Biographical records of Linn County, Iowa .. (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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