Mur­ray stu­died at the Mu­sic­al In­sti­tute in North Read­ing, Mas­sa­chu­setts, 1856-9, un­der Low­ell Ma­son, George Root, Wil­liam Brad­bu­ry, & George Webb. In 1862, in the midst of the Amer­i­can ci­vil war, he en­list­ed as an Ar­my mu­si­cian. His first song, Dai­sy Deane, was com­posed in a Vir­gin­ia camp in 1863. Af­ter the war, he re­turned home to teach pi­a­no, but soon joined the Root & Ca­dy pub­lish­ing house in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, as ed­it­or of The Song Mes­sen­ger. He stayed with Root & Ca­dy un­til the great Chi­ca­go fire of 1871, when he re­turned to An­do­ver and re­sumed work as a mu­sic teach­er. In 1881, Mur­ray moved to Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, to work for the John Church Com­pa­ny, ed­it­ing The Mu­sic­al Vis­i­tor, and tak­ing charge of the pub­lish­ing de­part­ment.

Murray’s works in­clude:

• Pure Di­a­monds (Cleve­land, Ohio: Brain­ard & Sons, 1872)
• Heavenward (Cleve­land, Ohio: Brain­ard’s Sons, 1877)
• Royal Praise (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: John Church Com­pa­ny, 1888)
• Uplifting Songs, New and Old, with Charles Case (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: John Church Com­pa­ny, 1896)
• Roy­al Gems
• The Prize
• Murray’s Sac­red Songs

• Hughes, p. 496
• Hall, pp. 209-11
• Jones, p. 104
• Stulken, p. 67

1. At Last
2. Christ’s Lit­tle Sol­diers
3. Cling to the Bi­ble
4. Come, Oh, Come Home
5. Coming of the Lord, The
6. Eudora
7. Ferrin
8. For Christ Is Our En­dea­vor
9. Good Old Christ­ian Way, The
10. Hold Out Your Hand
11. How Beau­tiful up­on the Mount­ains
12. I Love the Ho­ly Bi­ble
13. I Shall Be Sa­tis­fied
14. In the Plea­sant Land of Hea­ven
15. Little Glean­er’s Band
16. Mueller
17. Onward Roll the Ag­es
18. Over Jord­an
19. Soldiers of Christ, March On
20. Spirit Is Wait­ing, The
21. There Shall No Evil Be­fall Thee
22. Thine, O Lord, Is the Great­ness
23. Trusting Thee
24. Way Was Mine, The