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

local historian Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context, often concentrating on a relatively small local community. It incorporates cultural history, cultural and social history, social aspects of history. Local history is not mer ...

and museum director.

Life and work

Louise Shipman Murray was born in

Athens, Pennsylvania Athens is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located south of the New York state line on the Susquehanna and Chemung rivers. The population was 3,749 in 1900 and 3,796 ...

on 2 January 1854. She graduated from

Wells College Wells College was a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York, a village in the Finger Lakes region of the state. From its founding in 1868 until it became coeducational in 2005, Wells was a women's college. The college maintained acad ...

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 Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

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