Ontario County Journal
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
April 18, 1879
The death of this gentleman, which occurred early last Tuesday morning, at his residence on Main street in this village, was very sudden, and was surprising to most of our citizens, who had early in the week previous seen him on active duty in his accustomed place at the post office, and they felt that a good man was gone, whose place in the busy activities of human life and in the social circle it would be difficult to fill. Albert Guthrie Murray was born of Scotch parents at Pompey, Onondaga county, in the year 1810. He came to Canandaigua in 1829, when he was nineteen years old, and has since resided here, with the exception of an interval of a few years, when he was in the Comptroller's office at Albany. While a young man he engaged in the mercantile business as a partner of Ebenezer Hale, and was afterwards a partner of Theodore Hart. The latter firm was dissolved in 1854, and Mr. Murray continued the business about two years, and then disposed of it to Isaac W. Mitchell. Mr. Murray was an original Republican, and an earnest one, who could give fully and decidedly the reasons for his faith. He was first appointed postmaster by Abraham Lincoln, and held the position for four successive terms of four years each, and then became the deputy of his successor, Mr. Chamberlain. In every business relation, Mr. Murray's integrity and thorough honesty were relied upon implicitly. Although a very positive man, he was also a most congenial companion to those who knew him intimately. While nobody was ever in doubt as to his opinions, there was in his nature the most kindly feeling for his fellows, manifesting itself in cordial suavity. He had also a vein of refined native wit, and a keen appreciation of the humorous. This community will long miss his fine, intelligent face and the alert soul which shone in his eyes and found ready expression from his lips; and to his family and immediate friends his loss is irreparable. One son, William, is at San Francisco, where he is now convalescing from a severe attack of typhoid fever. The youngest one, Frederick, arrived home from the East just in time for a brief interview with the dying father and to utter that final farewell which must be spoken once to all mortals.
Ontario County Journal
Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York.
April 18, 1879
The death of this gentleman, which occurred early last Tuesday morning, at his residence on Main street in this village, was very sudden, and was surprising to most of our citizens, who had early in the week previous seen him on active duty in his accustomed place at the post office, and they felt that a good man was gone, whose place in the busy activities of human life and in the social circle it would be difficult to fill. Albert Guthrie Murray was born of Scotch parents at Pompey, Onondaga county, in the year 1810. He came to Canandaigua in 1829, when he was nineteen years old, and has since resided here, with the exception of an interval of a few years, when he was in the Comptroller's office at Albany. While a young man he engaged in the mercantile business as a partner of Ebenezer Hale, and was afterwards a partner of Theodore Hart. The latter firm was dissolved in 1854, and Mr. Murray continued the business about two years, and then disposed of it to Isaac W. Mitchell. Mr. Murray was an original Republican, and an earnest one, who could give fully and decidedly the reasons for his faith. He was first appointed postmaster by Abraham Lincoln, and held the position for four successive terms of four years each, and then became the deputy of his successor, Mr. Chamberlain. In every business relation, Mr. Murray's integrity and thorough honesty were relied upon implicitly. Although a very positive man, he was also a most congenial companion to those who knew him intimately. While nobody was ever in doubt as to his opinions, there was in his nature the most kindly feeling for his fellows, manifesting itself in cordial suavity. He had also a vein of refined native wit, and a keen appreciation of the humorous. This community will long miss his fine, intelligent face and the alert soul which shone in his eyes and found ready expression from his lips; and to his family and immediate friends his loss is irreparable. One son, William, is at San Francisco, where he is now convalescing from a severe attack of typhoid fever. The youngest one, Frederick, arrived home from the East just in time for a brief interview with the dying father and to utter that final farewell which must be spoken once to all mortals.
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