The Boston Globe, March 27th, 2007
While a segment of the sartorial world knew of Philip Chase Murray for his Nantucket Reds slacks, his fellow islanders knew him as a beloved friend and philanthropist. He shaped the lives of countless young people who worked at his Murray's Toggery Shop on Main Street in Nantucket, residents said. Mr. Murray, a fourth-generation Nantucket native, died Feb. 1 of complications of diabetes in Nantucket Cottage Hospital. He was 85. "Phil took me as a dead-end kid who was going to do nothing and over the years motivated me to have longtime goals and to reach for things I didn't think were attainabl...
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