James McMurry, Indiana Pioneer 1880

James McMurry (1817 Lincoln, KY - 1903 Indianapolis, IN) m. Livonia Darnall in 1843 in Putnam, IN.

Issue: Mary L (Pratt), Joshua Benton, Sarah E (Lewis), & James Turpin.

He laid the foundation of his prosperity as a farmer and afterwards became a banker at Warsaw, Indiana, and spent his last years as a money lender in Indianapolis, where he died.

Transcribed from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919, c1918. 5 v. (xlviii, 2530 p., [155] leaves of plates): ill., maps (some fold.), ports.; 27 cm.