The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^AJkMXc^miatsi 132 THE NATIONAL - yUoA/xuA. MURRAY, Orlando Dana, was horn in Hart-land, Vt., ^larch 13, l»ls, son of David and Mar-garet (Forsj-tli) JIurray. Ttie fir
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ^AJkMXc^miatsi 132 THE NATIONAL - yUoA/xuA. MURRAY, Orlando Dana, was horn in Hart-land, Vt., ^larch 13, l»ls, son of David and Mar-garet (Forsj-tli) JIurray. Ttie first American ances-tor of this brancli of the family was Isaac Murray,who came from Scotland, and located at London-derry (now Deny), N. H. He married Elizabeth,daughter of Jolin Durham, andshortly afterward removed to Bel-fast, ilc, where tliey spent theirlives. Their son, David, removed,wlien a young man, to Chester,IS. H., where he engaged in thebusiness of carpenter and served in the war of 1812 in acavalry troop, and for his servicereceived a grant of land, and hiswidow a pension. David marriedMargaret Forsyth of Chester, ,, in December, 1807. She wasa daughter of Lieut. Robert For-syth, and granddaughter of Dea-con Matthew Forsyth, who wasborn in Edinburgh, Scotland,wasgraduated from the Universityof Edinburgh, and emigrated toAmerica in 1730, settling at Ches-ter, N. H. Orlando Dana Murraywas the youngest child, and in 1835 was tak
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