Brief Life History of James Joseph
When James Joseph Murray was born on 27 March 1899, in Franklin, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, David D Murray, was 29 and his mother, Bridget Kellam, was 28. He married Sarah E Lynch on 26 November 1923, in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. He lived in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 September 1971, in Colchester, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- James Murray, "United States Census, 1940"
- James Joseph Murray, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- James Joseph Murray, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1905 · Treaty of Portsmouth Signed
The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905 and officially brought a conclusion to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Moray in northeastern Scotland, which derives from Celtic mori- ‘sea’ + treb- ‘settlement’. The founder of the Scottish house of Murray was a Fleming named Freskin who was granted Strathbrock in West Lothian and Duffus in Moray by David I. The family took its name from the region in the late 12th century.
Irish and Scottish: shortened form of McMurray .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Muireadhaigh ‘descendant of Muireadhach’ a personal name meaning ‘mariner’. Occasionally it may be a shortened form of McMurray .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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