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Year of Murch
 Thompson Henry Murch, was a Representative from Maine, he was born in Hampden, Penobscot County, Maine on March 29th, 1838. He attended Hampden Academy and passed much of his early life at sea. During that time he learned the stonecutter’s trade, first at Fort Gorges, in beatiful Casco Bay, just off the coast of Portland, Maine and then working at Dix Island and St. George quarries, usually as a foreman. He was engaged in that occupation for eighteen years.
Later in life he became editor and publisher of the Granite Cutters’ International Journal in Rockland in 1877, was secretary of the Granite Cutters’ International Association of America in 1877 and 1878, elected as a Greenback candidate to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); worked with Samuel L. Gompers, and was founder and president of the American Federation of Labor (AF of L). Murch died in Danvers, Mass., on December 15th, 1886 after a loosing a long battle with yellow fever that he contracted while touring the world in his 20's. Murch was interred in Hampden Cemetery, Hampden, Maine.
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