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 1822 - 1899 (76 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Philander Murray was born on 1 Mar 1822 in Burlington, Vermont; died on 19 Feb 1899 in Rock Falls, Illinois. Notes:
In 1849, Philander Murray, together with some other young men, went to Boston and bought a sailing vessel, the Harriet Rockwell, and sailed for California 'round the horn". Later he went again, this time via the isthmus and bought a foundry in
Ausable, New York across Lake Champlain and conducted a successful business; also meeting and marrying the village school teacher. Miss Martha Patterson, a graduate of Keeseville Academy. Later in the 1880's Philander Murray sold out and moved
west to Rock Falls, Illinois.
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