- B. F. MURRAY, farmer, Sec. 25 and 26; P.O. Beloit; born in
Pompey, Onondaga Co., N.Y.,
- May 9, 1811; son of Philo MURRAY, who subsequently moved
to Onondaga Co., N.Y. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
He married Prudence CARY, of Columbia Co., N.Y., and died in
1826, at the age of 54. Was engaged in farming and tavern-keeping.
Benj. F. came to Wisconsin in May, 1830, settled on 160 acres,
and, through industry and frugality, has a fine farm well stocked.
When he first came here, he built a log cabin 7 x 9, and lived
there with five other men through the season, and several years
afterward. Wolves and deer were numerous; counted a herd of
seventy-two deer one morning from his cabin door. He went back
to New York in 1844, and married Sophia SMITH, daughter of Dr.
Daniel SMITH, a prominent physician. He returned in the spring
of 1845, and settled in Turtle again. Have had three children
- James was born in 1847, and is settled on a farm in the neighborhood;
M. M., born in 1850, and Hattie. Has been Chairman of the Board,
and Supervisor many years.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 806.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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