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MURRAY, JOHN DAVID (1834-1906)

MURRAY, JOHN DAVID, Presbyterian minister, Red Bank and Whitneyville, 1888-1904; b. Middle River, Pictou Co., N.S., 27 Mar 1834, s/o Alexander Murray and Nancy McDonald; m. 1865, Margaret E. Hatfield, of Yarmouth, N.S.; d. Buctouche, N.B., 8 Jul 1906.

The son of a butcher, John D. Murray started teaching school at age eighteen. He continued to teach part time for many years, taking the winters off to continue his studies, at Truro and later at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. Ordained in 1865, he served at Richmond Bay East in Prince Edward Island, and at Moncton and Buctouche. In January 1888, he was inducted into the two-point charge at Red Bank, from which the Rev. John McI. McCarter had resigned in April 1887.

After Murray had been at Red Bank for three years, it was announced that the church had become self-sustaining, thanks to his efforts and the fact that members of the congregation had "grown in the grace of liberality." While in the charge, he became a close friend of the Baptist churchgoers on the Little Southwest and played a role in the dedication of their first church on 5 July 1891. He was deeply committed to the temperance movement, and in 1894, was elected to the high office of grand worthy patriarch of the Sons of Temperance of New Brunswick.

Murray enjoyed excellent health most of his life and was able to boast on the thirty-fifth anniversary of his ordination that he had never failed to occupy the pulpit of a Sunday because of illness. In 1904 he submitted his resignation at Red Bank and retired to Buctouche, where he had a brother living. During his lengthy ministry he officiated at 1105 baptisms, 230 marriages, and 242 funerals. He was survived in 1906 by his wife, Margaret E. Hatfield, who had been his ministerial helpmate throughout their marriage.

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[b/d] Leader 13 Jul 1906 [m] Presb. Witness 22 Jul 1865 / Advance 11 Dec 1890, 16 Jul 1891, 24 Jul 1902; Advocate 18 Jan 1888, 1 Mar 1900, 18 May 1904, 18 Aug 1937; Betts (FF); McCormick research; Presb. Witness 23 Jan 1875; tombstone (Alexander Murray and wife, Union Centre Cemetery, Pictou Co., N.S.); Walkington


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