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Murray Adobe
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Walter Thurtell-Murray was born in London in 1826. Walter had some legal training as a youth in England. Shortly after arriving in Boston on 28 Sep 1843, he dropped the Thurtell from his name and became known as Walter Murray. In Boston, he gained experience in the printing trade as a compositor. Walter became a volunteer in the Stevenson Regiment, traveled from New York around the Horn, saw action in Baja California, Mexico, then arrived in California on 21 October 1847 towards the end of the Mexican War. His regiment was disbanded in 1848 and he headed to the gold country where he met Romualdo Pacheco, a future Governor of California. Walter's brother, Alexander, joined him in 1850 and later helped with the first newspaper in Tuolumne County, the Sonora "Herald," that Walter and James O'Sullivan began publishing in 1851. In 1853, while still in Sonora, Walter met and married widow Mercedes Espinosa, who's child by her first marriage, Eliza, was born the same year. Later that year, Walter settled in San Luis Obispo. Walter joined the Bar and established a law practice. His was the first name on an 1858 Vigilance Committee roster and he was a founding member of the first Masonic lodge in San Luis Obispo on 16 May 1861 and was "acting Master" of his lodge by July 1863. He was appointed District Judge of the First Judicial District in December 1873 and was about to be formally elected to that office when he died of "gastritis", on 5 October 1875. He regretted the move from Sonora to San Luis Obispo and blamed the move for his financial problems. He left only a modest estate to his family and Mercedes struggled financially, at one point opening a boardinghouse. Mercedes died of asthma on 9 May 1878, aged 55. Together they had six children, Mercedes Andrea, Anita, Sarah Conception Josephine, Walter Alexander, Frances, James Alfred. They also raised two orphan girls, Emilia and Espiridiona. Today a one-room adobe is all that remains of the once larger house where Walter and Mercedes raised their large family. Walter printed the first copies of San Luis Obispo's local newspaper, The Tribune" in the home. The adobe is believed to have been built about 1849. The Murray adobe is located in Mission Plaza in San Luis Obispo, at 747 Monterey Street, about 200 feet southeast of Mission San Luis Obispo. |
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