Home of Samuel W. Murray 201 N. Front Street

Mrs. Samuel W. Murray lived here with her daughter Helen in 1910.

From Bell’s History of Northumberland County 1891: SAMUEL WILSON MURRAY was born at Lewisburg, Union county, Pennsylvania, October 16, 1829. He was educated at the old Lewisburg Academy. When he was about nineteen years of age he went to Portland, Maine, and entered the Portland Locomotive Works for a term of three years for the purpose of learning the trade of a machinist. He returned to Lancaster and was employed for the three succeeding years as draughtsman in the Lancaster Locomotive Works.

In February, 1864, he came to Milton, and in connection with several other gentlemen, founded the Milton Car Works, with which enterprise he is still identified.

Mr. Murray was married December 17, 1866, to Sarah Matilda Meckly, a daughter of Dr. John Meckly, of Milton, and two children, a son, John Heber, and a daughter, Helen Beatrice, are the result of this union.