Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Moredock, William M. August 28, 1844 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

     William M Murdock, merchant-tailor, was born in 
Carmichaels, August 28, 1844, and is a son of James Murdock 
and Amanda Bailey Murdock, natives of Greene County. Mr 
Murdock is the third of a family of six children. He was 
reared in Carmichaels and learned the tailor's trade with 
his father. His first work was for the Government. In 1862 
when he was eighteen years of age, he enlisted as a soldier 
in  Company K, Fifteen Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, and 
served until 1865. He was at the Battle of Stone River and 
in several other engagements and skirmishes. At the close of 
the war he came home and worked at his trade with his 
father. In 1870 he engaged with his brother in the merchant 
tailoring business, in which they have continued quite 
successfully ever since.  
  
      In 1866 he married Emma Armstrong, daughter of William 
Armstrong and Mary Williams Armstrong. They have four 
children: Augustus L Murdock; Mary Murdock, wife of F 
Davidson; Louise Murdock; and Lottie Murdock. Mr Murdock is 
a member of the G A R Post; and both are leading members in 
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. 

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