Daniel Alexander Payne Murray was an American bibliographer, author, politician, and historian. He also worked as an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress. He compiled information and wrote a
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Title page of Murray's planned encyclopedia
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Lewis Sheridan Leary was an African-American harnessmaker from Oberlin, Ohio, who joined John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, where he was killed.
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…Librarian of Congress, Ainsworth Rand Spofford in 1874. In 1879, Murray married Anna Evans, a teacher educated at Oberlin College who was the niece of Lewis Sheridan Leary and cousin of John Anthony Copeland Jr., both of whom participated in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. The Murrays were very prominent in Washington…
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Monument honoring Copeland, Green, and Leary