Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   GREENBURY W. McCRAY, farmer, stock-raiser and banker, Kentland, was
born July 13, 1839, in Fayette County, Indiana, and is the son of 
William and Lucinda (Edwards) McCray, the former a native of Ohio, the 
latter of Pennsylvania.  They had eight children.  The father died in
1864, aged fifty-three; the mother is living at the age of seventy.
   William McCray was a pioneer Abolitionist of the State.  On his 
tombstone was inscribed at his request, "Freedom to all men;" he is
buried in Crawfordsville.
   Greenbury W. McCray moved with his parent in 1849 to Crawfordsville,
where he had good school advantages, and the help of the Normal 
Department of Wabash College.  In 1861, he came to Newton County, 
Indiana, prospecting, and in November purchased a farm in Iroquois
Township, near Brook.  Until the following spring he was engaged 
trading.  He remained on that farm until November 1870, when he 
moved to Kentland.
   From 1870 to 1875, he was engaged in the livery, the farm implement,
and in the fuel trade, at the same time overseeing his farm.  Since 
December 1875, he has been a partner with Messrs. Ade & Urmston in the
"Discount and Deposit Bank of Kentland," which, with farming and 
stock-raising, engages his attention.
   Mr. McCray has been very successful.  He owns 350 acres of land in 
his names, and with Messrs. Ade & Urmston, bankers, 2,000 acres,
located in Washington, Jefferson, Grant, Iroquois and Beaver Townships,
in Newton County, and in Beaver Township, Iroquois County, Illinois; 
has been for a number of years a member of the School Board and is
the busiest man in the town.  
   March 6, 1862, he married Miss Martha J. Galey, of Montgomery County,
Indiana.  They have three children--Fanny F., Warren T. and Anna E.
Mrs. McCray is a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Mr. McCray is a 
Republican.  Mr. McCray is forty-four years old, and has never smoked
or chewed tobacco, or drunk a dram of an intoxicant.  He signed the
first temperance pledge ever presented, and has signed all since.


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