Murray City, Ohio might seem an unlikely place to find a trend-setting project with the potential to change an industry.

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She is one of many prominent UK figures to be honoured by the city, but Murray Craig, the clerk of the Chamberlain's Court at the City of London, says that this is a "symbolic" modern version of a tradition which began in the 13th Century as an "economic transaction".

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Stapleton was born in New York City to Joseph Murray and his wife, Marie Stapleton Murray, a singer.

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