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This photograph of the residence of Samuel P. Shur appears in W.B. Kimball's Delaware Illustrated. The home is located at 219 N. Sandusky Street (northwest corner of N. Sandusky and Lincoln Streets). Samuel B. Shur was President of the Deposit Banking Company. This home once housed the Delta Alpha Pi fraternity. Later it was known as "Murphy Hall" to OWU students. Faculty housing was provided here during World War II. In his work "Sketches of architecture and people of Delaware, Ohio", H.C. Hubbart provided the following summary of Shur's life, condensed from Lytle's History of Delaware County -- "Samuel Porter Shur, for thirty years president of the Delaware Deposit Banking Co., lived in this large brick home which still stands at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Sandusky Streets. This house has almost the same exterior, but has been converted into a number of apartments. Mr. Shur was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1826, one of eleven children. His parents were Jacob and Margaret (Porter) Shur. The Shur family, one of the most prominent and wealthy families of Delaware, had also been of importance in Knox County. Samuel Shur, who was educated in the district school, left his father's farm in 1842 and became a clerk in a dry goods store in Chesterville. He remained there eight years, then went into business in Cardington, Ohio, after which he had a dry goods store in Caledonia. From there he moved to Marseilles, where he was in business eight years before coming to Delaware. Mr. Shur was in the dry goods business in Delaware until 1901, at which time he became affiliated with the Deposit Banking Co. This bank was organized in 1868, and in 1890 was incorporated as a state bank. A conservative bank, it listed as its officers the following: Samuel P. Shur, president; G. Riddle, vice president; R.M. Avery, cashier; R.G. Lybrand, W.R. Carpenter, E.J. Healy, George W. Jones. Mr. Shur married Emily T. Truesdale, daughter of Stephen Truesdale. Their children were: Ida May, who married Edward Welch of Delaware, and Harry Clyde who went into the hotel business in Minnesota. Mr. Shur was a Republican and a member of the Masonic Order." |
