MURRAY, CHARLES THEODORE: 1843-1924.
Charles Theodore Murray was born in Goshen, Ind., Mar. 30, 1843. His parents were Charles Lefferts and Ann Maria Spriggs Murray.
Murray served three years in the Union forces during the Civil War. He attended Indiana University as a member of the class of 1869 and received the LL.B. degree from Columbian (now George Washington) University in 1870. On May 25, 1871, he married Ada M. Nealy.
He established the SOUTH BEND HERALD in 1874 and took an active, and apparently ultra-partisan, part in politics; he was shot through the right lung during a political altercation over the Hayes-Tilden campaign, and his obituary appeared next morning in his own paper. Murray survived both the wound and possible embarrassment over his staff's editorial error, however, to become Washington correspondent for the ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, PITTSBURGH DISPATCH, PHILADELPHIA TIMES and NEW YORK HERALD and a writer for McCLURE'S MAGAZINE, the INDIANAPOLIS NEWS and other papers and periodicals. He was a founder of the Gridiron Club.
In his later years Murray resided in Wardensville, W. Va.
Information from Who's Who in America.
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1880.
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Philadelphia, 1902.
