Louise Murray, née Welles (2 January 1854 – 22 April 1931), was an American

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and museum director.

Life and work

Louise Shipman Murray was born in Athens, Pennsylvania on 2 January 1854. She graduated from

Wells College Wells College is a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York. The college has cross-enrollment with Cornell University and Ithaca College. For much of its history it was a women's college. Wells College is located in the Finger Lakes ...

in 1872 and married Millard P. Murray four years later. While the foundations for their house were being dug in 1882, an unusual Indian burial plot was unearthed that included portrait pottery and skeletal remains. Murray founded the Tioga Point Historical Society and the Tioga Point Museum in 1898. "She was director and archaeologist for three decades, using primary sources and progressive techniques unusual for so small a town". She also carried out independent research on local history and published ''The Story of Some French Refugees and Their ‘‘Azilum,’’ 1793–1800'' in 1903. Five years later Murray wrote ''A History of Old Tioga Point and Early Athens, Pennsylvania''. In 1921 she wrote an article for ''American Anthropologist'' on aboriginal sites in and near ‘‘Teaga’’ (Athens), and, eight years later, she published ''Notes . . . on the Sullivan Expedition of 1799'', based on documents in the Tioga Point Museum and other archives. She died on 22 April 1931.Scanlon & Cosner, p. 163

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* 1854 births 1931 deaths American historians People from Bradford County, Pennsylvania Wells College alumni American women historians {{US-historian-stub