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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Louise S. Murray was born on January 2, 1854, at Athens, Pennsylvania, United States, the daughter of Charles Fisher Welles and Elizabeth Laporte. She descended on the paternal side from Thomas Welles, a colonial governor of Connecticut, and on the maternal side from Bartholomew Laporte, one of the French emigrés who founded Asylum, Pennsylvania.
Murray attended the Athens Academy, the Moravian Seminary at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Brown's School at Auburn, New York.
In 1870 she entered Wells College, Aurora, New York, where she was graduated in 1872.
Excavations for Murray's home in Athens in 1882 revealed an unusual Indian burial plot containing portrait pottery and skeletal remains of great size. For nearly fifty years thereafter she followed up the theory that the Andastes or Susquehannocks of Captain John Smith's account were the Indians who left these remains; her last publication, on which she was at work at the time of her death and which was published posthumously, was concerned with this theory.
Stimulated by these archaeological discoveries, she founded the Tioga Point Historical Society, which opened and maintained the Tioga Point Museum. In 1898 this institution was installed in the Spalding Memorial Building, a model museum structure secured through her efforts. As director and archaeologist of this museum, she spent more than three decades of indefatigable labor endeavoring to correlate museum activity with school and community aims. With this end in view, she made a study of museums in Buffalo, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Her bulletins and pamphlets, her scheduled lectures for school children, and her methods of exhibition reveal a body of progressive museum criteria not often found in small-town institutions.
Meanwhile, in addition to her educational work with the museum, she carried on independent researches in local history and for this purpose accumulated at the museum valuable manuscript and other primary sources. In 1903 she published her first study, The Story of Some French Refugees and their "Azilum, " 1793 - 1800; in 1908 appeared her most important work, A History of Old Tioga Point and Early Athens, Pennsylvania. Both of these studies reveal an aptitude for research in original sources, are well documented, and remain the standard authority for the subjects they treat.
In 1921 she contributed articles to the American Anthropologist on the aboriginal sites in and near "Teaoga" (Athens). In 1929 she published Notes on the Sullivan Expedition of 1799, a series of documents drawn from the Tioga Point Museum and other archives.
In 1931 the Society for Pennsylvania Archeology, of which she was a charter member and second vice-president, issued as its first publication her Selected Manuscripts of General John S. Clark Relating to the Aboriginal History of the Susquehanna.
Louise S. Murray died on April 22, 1931, at Athens, Pennsylvania.
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Murray was active in patriotic and historical societies and was a member and second vice-president of the Society for Pennsylvania Archeology.
On June 27, 1876, Louise Shipman Welles married Millard P. Murray, by whom she had three daughters.
