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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [367]

           JOHN J. MURDOCK, farmer, sections 21 and 22, Caseville Township,
        was born Sept. 29, 1847, in Kilnrow, County Ayr, Scotland, and is
        the son of HUGH and JANET (CAMPBELL) MURDOCK. In November, 1868, he
        emigrated to the United States. The parents are living with their
        son in Caseville Township. The father was born April 1, 1827; the
        mother in November, 1828. They came to Ohio in the fall of 1869.
           After landing in New York, Mr. Murdock proceeded to the coal re-
        gions of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, where he was employed for
        some time in the mines.  In 1873, he came to Huron County; he
        purchased a farm of HON. JOSEPH SNELL, with seven acres improved.
           MR. MURDOCK is a Republican in political sentiment, and has held
        various township offices. He was married Feb. 23, 1871, to LOUISA
        SOLLAW. Their children were born as follows: ALBERT H., Feb. 2,
        1872; EDWIN S., Feb. 13, 1874; JESSIE A., Nov. 13, 1876; MABEL J.,
        April 24, 1879; GRACE E., May 19, 1882. Their mother was born Jan.
        14, 1850, in Canal Fulton, Stark Co., Ohio, and is the daughter of
        JOHN A. and ANNA (CYRING) SOLLAW. Her mother died in 1869, and her
        father in 1877, in Stark Co., Ohio.

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