The father of Theron Murray, an English farmer, in the year 1792 immigrated to the United States, and settled in Massachusetts, and afterwards removed to Victor, Ontario county, New York, where Theron was born, in 1811. He was one of nine children, four sons and five daughters.

He attended the common school of that day, worked on a farm and at various kinds of labor until twenty years of age, when he started west. He came on to the Territory of Michigan, and located at first in the present town of Farmington. Four years afterwards he sold out and located in West Bloomfield, on the lands ever since owned and occupied by him as a home.

At the age of twenty-one he was married to Miss Rebecca E. Welfare, of the town of Commerce. Has all his life pursued the occupation of a farmer, never engaging in the strifes and turmoils of speculation, and in the dealings of a long life has never sued a man at law or been sued. A Universalist in religious faith. Republican in politics, an honorable man and a gentleman always and everywhere, he is universally esteemed and respected by all. He has two children, both sons, who are married, and reside on farms of their own, adjoining and on either side of the old gentleman. Ozro L., the eldest, has three children, and Albert has two.

The old gentleman and the two sons are extensively engaged in fruit growing, principally apples, which they have by intelligent management made very profitable. We present in the pages of this work a fine view of the residences of the Murrays, and portraits of the old gentleman and his wife, and this brief sketch as a tribute of respect to one of the old pioneers of Oakland County.