[3] She studied homeopathic medicine privately under Dr. Constantine Hering and at the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania.

[6] After the Union Army captured Port Royal, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands, the slave-owning plantation owners fled and abandoned over 10,000 slaves.

Salmon P. Chase, the secretary of the United States Treasure, appointed abolitionist Edward L. Pierce to solve the suffering of the slaves and salvage the valuable cotton crops.

[1] Laura Towne and Murray spent the next forty years of their lives ministering to the freed slaves, developing their trust, providing them with medical care, teaching them to read and write, and fighting for their land rights.

[9] In 1867, Towne and Murray purchased and lived on a former plantation on Saint Helena Island named Frogmore.

She died at Frogmore on February 22, 1901,[5] due to influenza[3] and was interred in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia.