William S. Murray

William Spencer Murray, Sr. (August 4, 1873 – January 9, 1942) was an American engineer. He was the fourth child of Elizabeth Murray Spencer and James Daniel Murray. Murray graduated from Lehigh University in 1895 with a degree in electrical engineering. While at Lehigh, Murray was a member of Chi Phi, Sword and Crescent (senior honorary society), and E. E. Society.

Murray began his career as an apprentice at the Westinghouse Electric plant in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He rose through the positions of testing room engineer, construction engineer on the road, district engineer of New England, and sales engineer before becoming an independent electrical engineering consultant based out of Boston from 1902 to 1905. As a consulting engineer, he was the chief engineer for the electrification of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.

He married Ella Day Rush on May 26, 1905, in Catskill, New York, and they had three sons, Richard Murray, John Murray, and William Spencer Murray, Jr. His widow died in 1943.

Published works Electrification Analyzed, and its practical application to trunk line roads, inclusive of freight and passenger operation (; American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1911) A Superpower System for the Region Between Boston and Washington (US Government Print Office, 1921) Government Owned and Controlled Compared with Privately Owned and Regulated Electric Utilities in Canada & the United States with Henry Flood, Jr. (National Electric Light Association, 1922) Superpower: Its Genesis and Future (; McGraw-Hill, 1925)

Awards and honors Murray held memberships in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and Engineers' Club of New York. 1916: Howard N. Potts Medal, for his work in main line electricity