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William McMurtrie was born on a farm near Belvidere, New Jersey. He was the son of Abram and Almira (Smith) McMurtrie.
During his boyhood, McMurtrie acquired an interest in chemistry through listening to some lectures by the village pastor. At school, he was an active, ambitious lad, and in 1867, he entered Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, enrolling in the mining-engineering course. Here he was known as an industrious and faithful but self-contained student who had but small interest in the social side of college life.
After his graduation in 1871, McMurtrie was made assistant to Dr. R. J. Brown, then chief chemist of the department of agriculture at Washington, D. C. , and on Dr. Brown's retirement, two years later, McMurtrie was made chief chemist.
Resigning in 1877, he became an agent of the department and special commissioner to the Exposition Universelle at Paris. His account of his work there is contained in Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878 (1880). In consequence of this appointment, he was made a Chevalier du mérite Agricole by the French government.
While abroad he studied the beet-sugar industry and made a report which was instrumental in starting beetroot sugar manufacture in this country. In 1882, he became a professor of chemistry at the University of Illinois; in 1884, chemist of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture; and in 1886, chemist of the Agricultural Experiment Station.
In 1888, he went to New York as chemist of the New York Tartar Company, manufacturers of Royal Baking Powder. With his customary determination, McMurtrie set about improving and cheapening the product. At that time the argols from which the cream of tartar was produced were put into copper-lined pressure cylinders with water and superheated.
The solution thus formed was filtered under pressure, and when the pressure was released, steam was given off and the crude cream of tartar precipitated in fine crystals. Copper, however, was dissolved during the process and contaminated the product.
After much experimenting, McMurtrie succeeded in getting a pure product at a reasonable cost. He then turned his attention to building and equipping a factory for putting the product on the market, completing it to the entire satisfaction of his employers, by whom he was made manager and vice-president of the company. He was not, however, allowed to disclose the manufacturing methods employed, and an interesting chapter of chemical experience was thus lost.
McMurtrie was much interested in the American Chemical Society and the Chemists Club of New York, and devoted much time to them, serving as president of the latter and of the New York section of the former. He was for a number of years a member of the council of the Chemical Society and in 1900, he became its president. His death occurred suddenly in New York.
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William was a member of the council of the Chemical Society.
On April 5, 1876, McMurtrie married Helen M. Douglass.