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[[Image: | [[Image:PURERYE1.png|left|thumb|250px|"Finest Goods on Earth." This merchant token was worth one dollar on a $10.00 order for Murray's Fine Rye or ten percent on a lesser amount. Image courtesy: http://tokencatalog.com/index.php]] | ||
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[[Image:pcmurray.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]]P. C. MURRAY AND COMPANY. Peter C. Murray graduated from college in Dubuque and after studying law in a Chicago law school joined the firm of Moran, English & Wolfe in Chicago. He later left the profession and worked for the ''Dubuque Telegraph Herald'' and the ''Chicago Times'' newspapers. | |||
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[[Category: Liquor Merchant]] | [[File:pcmurray6.jpg|200px|thumb|left|P. C. Murray. Photo courtesy: Jim Massey]]In 1890 Murray established the wholesale liquor firm of P. C. Murray and Company at 233 Main Street in Dubuque. He successfully managed the firm for ten years and then sold it to Andrew A. Cullen, Thomas F. Duggen and a Mr. Kane. | ||
Murray re-entered the legal profession and practiced into the 1920s before dying as the result of an auto accident near Farley on December 17, 1929. | |||
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[[Image:pcmurray1.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Jim Massey. ]] | |||
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Burggraaf, Mike. '''2010 Update to the Antique Bottles of Iowa 1846-1915''', Fairfield, Iowa: Frontline Printing & Design, 2010 | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:10, 29 February 2024
P. C. MURRAY AND COMPANY. Peter C. Murray graduated from college in Dubuque and after studying law in a Chicago law school joined the firm of Moran, English & Wolfe in Chicago. He later left the profession and worked for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald and the Chicago Times newspapers.
In 1890 Murray established the wholesale liquor firm of P. C. Murray and Company at 233 Main Street in Dubuque. He successfully managed the firm for ten years and then sold it to Andrew A. Cullen, Thomas F. Duggen and a Mr. Kane.
Murray re-entered the legal profession and practiced into the 1920s before dying as the result of an auto accident near Farley on December 17, 1929.
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Source: Burggraaf, Mike. 2010 Update to the Antique Bottles of Iowa 1846-1915, Fairfield, Iowa: Frontline Printing & Design, 2010