having been reluctantly granted and his constitution having been always feeble, he retired to Carlisle. On this account he never afterwards felt at liberty to resume the responsibility and active labors of a pastoral charge, although much of his time, as strength would permit and opportunity offered, was spent in supplying churches, filling vacant pulpits and assisting his ministerial brethren in special services. Not long before his decease, his old congregation at Dillsburg, as a mark of their respect for him as a former pastor, made him pastor emeritus.

In addition to his general interest and activity in everything pertaining to the advancement of the church at large, his scholarly habits and tastes manifested themselves in a variety of ways. His library steadily increased in the number of its volumes and in value from year to year. His disposition to indulge in antiquarian, historical and biographical research led to the accumulation of much material by him of great value in each of these directions. A few years before his death he claimed to have rescued from the ragman's stock of material manuscripts and records of local and general historical interest. So widely had his peculiarity in this respect become known of late years, that by personal interviews and correspondence by persons far and near, information was sought of him on a great variety of topics of a historical and biographical character. And such were the resources of information and documentary evidence at his command, and his painstaking accuracy, and his pride and pleasure in giving the information sought, that such demands, however great, were never regarded by him as burdensome, and he came to be widely regarded as a recognized authority in all such matters. He was a corresponding member of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and also of the American Philosophical Society. Of the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle he was secretary from the time of its organization to his decease.

In 1869 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of Western Pennsylvania. For many years prior to his decease, he was a director of the Western

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Theological Seminary of Allegheny City. In it he took a deep interest. During his last illness, he had the satisfaction of carrying out a long-cherished plan of founding a scholarship in it by the donation of three thousand dollars. For this generous and self-denying gift, the board of trustees of that seminary expressed their grateful appreciation and tendered to him their heartfelt sympathy and assurance of their prayers for his support in the time of his great suffering and sore affliction.

Dr. Murray was also a frequent contributor to different secular and religious periodicals of his day, and several of his public addresses were published. During a long protracted illness and under painful sufferings from disease, he maintained to the end an unusual interest in all the affairs of church and State, and of the community in which he resided, and was much gratified and comforted by the oft-repeated expressions of sympathy and kindness which he received from his many friends.

In April, 1843, Dr. Murray was married to Miss Ann Hays Blair, daughter of Mr. Andrew Blair, a prominent citizen of Carlisle, Pa., and a leading and active ruling elder in the Second Presbyterian church from the time of its organization to his decease. She died in 1875, leaving him with a daughter, their only child.

In 1879 he was again married to Miss Lydia Steele Foster, also a native of Carlisle, but for many years a resident of Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Crawford Foster. She survives him. Her high Christian character and her womanly and constant tender care of him contributed greatly to the support and comfort of the later years of his life, as well as to the mitigation of his sufferings during his last illness. He passed quietly and calmly away, as one falling asleep, on November 27, 1889, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.

Rev. Anderson Beaton Quay.

The subject of this sketch was born at Charleston, Chester county, Pennsylvania, May 22, 1802. He was the son of Joseph Quay and Assenath Anderson, who lived in what is now Schuylkill township, Chester county, near Phoenixville. Pa.