MURRAY
MURRAY
He became a Methodist preacher, and in 1760
returned to England where he adopted Universa-
list doctrines. In 1770 he immigrated to America
and preached in several New England cities.
Upon the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he
was chaplain of a brigade of Rhode Island in-
fantry, but ill health compelled him to return to
Gloucester, Mass., where he established a Univer-
salist society. He was a member of the first
Uiiiversalist convention that met at Oxford,
Mass., in 1758, and adopted the name of Indepen-
dent Christian Universalists. He was in charge
of a society in Boston, 1793-1815, and was known as
the " Father of Universalism ", although his doc-
trines differed from those afterwards recognized
by that denomination. He was married in 1788
to Judith (Sargent) Stevens, a sister of Winthrop
Sargent. She contributed to the Massachusetts
Magazine and the Boston Weekly 3Iagazine under
the pen name "Constantia" and was editor of
the Repository and Gleaner (3 vols., 1798), and of
An Autobiography of John Murray (1816). She
died in Natchez, Miss., June 6, 1820. Mr. Murray
is the author of Letters and Sketches. He died in
Boston, Mass., Sept. 3. 1815.
MURRAY, John M'Kane, author, was born in Glenariffe, county Antrim. Ireland, Dec. 12, 1847. He immigrated to New York with his parents, and was educated at St. John's college, Fordham, and was graduated in medicine from the University of the City of New York. He practised medicine in Brooklyn, N.Y., until 1880, also devoting him- self to literary work. He became a victim to phthisis, and spent the last five years of his life in seeking health. He spoke and read six languages, and contributed regularly to Roman Cafliolic periodicals. He answered the attacks made on the Roman Catholic church and its institutions, and was influential in securing the removal of many objectionable references to that church from text books. He revised Kerney's " General History," and was revising Lingard's " History of England " when he died. He received a medal and a letter from Pope Pius IX. for his Popidar History of the Catholic Church in America (1876). He is also the author of: The Prose and Poetry of Ireland (1877); The Catholic Heroes and Hero- ines of America (1878); Little Lives of the Great Saints (1879), The Catholic Pioneers of America (1881), and Lessons in English Literature (1883). He died in Chicago, 111., July 30, 1885.
MURRAY, Lindley, grammarian, was born in Swatara, Pa., April 23, 1745; son of Robert Murray. His parents were Quakers, and he was educated in the Friends school in Philadelphia. His father settled in New York city in 1753, and he was trained for a mercantile career. He ran away from home in 1759 to escape the severity of his father and began a course of study at BurlingtoUj
N.J. He returned to his home in New York
shortly afterward, was supplied with a tutor by
his father, and with John Jay was a pupil in law
under Benjamin Kissam, 1761-65. He was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1765, being licensed to practise
in all the courts in the province, and shortly
afterward went to England, where he remained
until 1771. He practised law, 1771-75, and in
1775 retired to Islip, Long Island, and spent four
years in out-door employment and pleasure. He
returned to New York city in 1779 and under the
direction of his father made a fortune in com-
mercial speculation. He retired from active life
at the close of the Revolution and resided first on
the Hudson and afterward at Bethlehem, Pa.,
but ill health forced him to live in England
and he settled at Holdgate near York, in 1784.
He was confined to his room for sixteen years by
a muscular affection. He devoted himself to
study and literary work, collected a library of
historical, philological and theological works,
and wrote "Murray's English Grammar" and
"Murray's English Reader", introduced into all
the English and American schools. He made a
study of botany during the last years of his life,
and his garden in its variety and rarity excelled
the Royal gardens at Kews. The date of liis
marriage was June 22, 1767. Besides his English
and French readers and spelling books he is the
author of: The Poiver of Religion on the Mind
(1787); English Grammar (1795); Selections from
Bishop Home's Commentaries on the Psalms
(1812); Biographical Sketch of Henry Tuke
(1815); Compendium of Religious Faith and
Practice: designed for Young Persons of the
Society of Friends (1815), and On the Duty and
Benefit of a Daily Perusal of the Scriptures (1817).
See Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Lindley
Murray in a Series of Letters written by himself,
with a Preface and Continuation by Elizabeth
Frank (1826). He died at Holdgate, near York,
England, Feb. 16, 1826.
MURRAY, Nicholas, clergyman, was born in Ballynaskea, county Westmeath, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1802; son of Nicholas and Judith (Magum) Murray. He attended school in Ireland until 1814, when he was apprenticed for three years as a merchant's clerk, and being cruelly treated ran away, and in July, 1818, arrived in New York city. His mother it is said had him cursed from the altar of the Roman Catholic church for his disobedience. He entered the employ of Harper and Brothers, printers, and resided with the family. He was converted to the Methodist and later to the Presbyterian faith and deciding to en- ter the ministry he attended the academy at Am- herst, Mass., 1821-22, was graduated at Williams college, A.B., 1826. A.M., 1829, and studied at Princeton theological seminary, 1826-28. He
