Mr. Murray was born at Ohlton, Trumbull Co., Ohio, April 21st, 1845. He was the son of Joseph Arbor and Nancy Drake Murray and grandson of John Ferguson Murray. He was educated in the common schools of Bluffton, Ohio, and was licensed to teach school at fifteen and again at eighteen years of age.

After the war he commenced the study of medicine at the Tripler U.S. Army Hospital at Columbus. Ohio, in the year 1865, and the Cleveland Medical College, receiving the degree of MD in 1868 in the latter named college, and then took a course in the Jefferson Medical College, graduating as MD in 1871, having been resident physician to Philadelphia Hospital eighteen months- 1870-71.

Dr. Murray was appointed acting assistant surgeon, U.S. Navy, 1871-72, and was on active duty in the United States Hospital Service after April 1872, serving at Key West, Florida; New Orleans, La.; Norfolk, Va.; Vicksburg, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; and Gulf Quarantine, Miss.

He was a specialist on Yellow Fever and was always called upon by his superior officers when that dread scourge invaded the United States. Nineteen years od his life were spent  in fighting it in various cities in the South.

He was postmaster at Bluffton, Ohio, in 1865, 1866 and was connected with all of the leading medical associations since 1870. He was a member of the Odd Fellows. He was a free and accepted Mason and Knight Templar. He was a member of the G.A.R. and U.V.U., Seventh Regiment O.V.I. and Twelfth O.V.C. Associations, and National Association of the United States Ex-Prisoners of War.

Dr. Murray was a prolific writer on medical subjects and his publications were accepted as authority on everything connected to yellow fever.

Mr. Oliver was born in Lancaster County, Pa.. on Oct., 19, 1827, and received a common education. He was discharged at Camp Dennison, Ohio On June 21st, 1865. He was a miller by trade, and for twenty five years followered that occupation at Ohltown, Hubbard, and Girard, Ohio.

Addison White was born in Southington, Ohio, on July 24, 1841, and was educated in the common schools of that day.

He enlisted at Warren, Ohio, in Company H, Seventh Ohio Infantry, and was mustered in at Camp Dennison, Ohio, on June 2O, 1861.  He served as a private soldier all through his three years’ service, declining promotion repeatedly offered him.

He participated in battle at Cross Lanes, Kernstown, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Antietam and Dumfries, when he was detailed as a stretcher-bearer in the ambulance corps of Geary’s division of the Twelfth Army Corps, and filled this position gallantly at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, going well to the front and bringing off to a place of safety severely wounded and disabled comrades.

At Gettysburg, during the terrific artillery duel between the two armies on July 3, 1863, while passing a battery whose men had been so reduced by the enemy’s shot and shell as to leave scarcely enough men to serve the guns, Addison White, like the brave and gallant soldier that he was, volunteered to assist the gunners, and did so until the artillery firing, before the great charge, ended.  He fought at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, and Ringgold, Georgia, in the Southwest, and was severely wounded at the latter place.  He was mustered out July, 7, 1864, at Cleveland, Ohio, with his company.

Riley White was born in October, 1844, in Southington township, Trumbull County, Ohio, and was educated in common district schools.

He enlisted at Warren, Ohio, on October 7, 1861, as a recruit in Company H, Seventh Ohio Infantry, and joined the regiment at Charleston, West Virginia.  He was at Romney, and on the scout to Blue’s Gap; starved and froze with his comrades at Phillip’s Cross Roads, in battles at Kernstown, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, and Antietam.  He was taken seriously ill at Harper’s Ferry, and on November 19, 1862, was discharged on certificate of disability, to save his life.  By reason of his youth and rapid growth, like many others, Pope’s retreat from Culpeper to Sharpsburg wore him out.  On February 7, 1865, he reenlisted in Company H, One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Ohio Infantry, and served until September 19, 1865, when he was discharged at Nashville, Tennessee.

On April 26, 1866, he married Lucy Philpot, at Kilgore, Carroll County, Ohio.  Two sons and three daughters were born to them.  Since the war he has been a farmer.

On June 9, 1862, while in battle at Port Republic, Virginia, Riley White-then fighting beside his elder brother, Addison-remembered his father (whom he called “Pap”), and wishing him to have some part in the lively contest then going on with Stonewall Jackson’s champion fighters, Riley stepped up closely to his brother and said, “Add, let’s load up and give ‘em one for Pap!” Addison consented, and after carefully loading for the occasion, they took deliberate aim and fired a modest volley of two pieces, in honor and memory of their good loyal father, who then had five of his six sons, then old enough to go to war, at the front.