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GEORGE W. MURPHY
Vol. 3, p. 1213
Book has photo

Of the men devoted to the science of healing in Jefferson County,
none bring to bear upon their calling finer gifts of scholarship and
resource than does Dr. George W. Murphy, who has been engaged in
practice at Addington since 1908. Far from selecting his life work in
the enthusiasm of extreme youth, the choice of Doctor Murphy as that
of a mature mind, trained to thoughtfulness by years of practical
experience as a teacher and to full realization of the possibilities
and responsibilities of the labors which confronted him.

Doctor Murphy was born in Platte County, Missouri, May 25, 1856, and
is a son of George and Nancy Jane (LLOYD) Murphy. As the name would
suggest, the family originated in Ireland, from whence they emigrated
to America prior to the War of the Revolution and settled in the
colony of North Carolina. In that state was born the grandfather of
Doctor Murphy, Payton Murphy, in 1790. In his young manhood he
removed from the Old North State to Kentucky, later to Jacksonville,
Illinois, and finally, in middle age, to Platte County, Missouri,
where he passed the remaining years of his life in the peaceful
pursuits of farming and stockraising, and died in 1862. He married
Nancy DODSON, also a native of North Carolina, who died in the same
locality as did her husband.

George Murphy was born in 1812, at Jacksonville, Morgan County,
Illinois, and was a young man when he removed to Platte Purchase,
Platte County, Missouri. Adopting his father's occupation of farming,
he settled on a property there and continued to be engaged in
cultivating the soil until his death in 1860. He was a whig in
politics and religiously was connected with the Christian Church. Mr.
Murphy married Miss Nancy Jane Lloyd, who was born in Clay County,
Missouri, in 1815, and died in Platte County, in 1865. They became
the parents of four children: John C, who is a successful contractor
and builder residing at Hobart, Oklahoma; James C., living on the
homestead place in Platte County; Dr. George W., of this review; and
Leah, who is the wife of George ENDICOTT, who is carrying on
agricultural operations in the vicinity of Pawnee, Oklahoma.

George W. Murphy divided his boyhood days between assisting his
father in the work of the home farm and attending the public schools
of his locality, and when he had completed the curriculum of the
schools there devoted all of his attention to his agricultural work
until he was twenty-two years of age. At that time, securing a
teacher's certificate, he began work as an educator, first in Wise
County, Texas, where he remained until 1893. He had always cherished
the ambition of entering the profession of medicine, and in the year
mentioned entered the medical department of Arkansas Industrial
Union, of Little Rock. The last year in Fort Worth Medical College,
which he attended during 1895 and 1896, was graduated with the degree
of Doctor of Medicine, receiving all prizes in the first graduating
class. He immediately opened an office at Alvord, Texas, where he
continued until 1908, then coming to Addington, which has since been
his home and field of endeavor. He has a general medical and surgical
practice and has steadily advanced in his profession, now holding an
honorable position among the practitioners of Jefferson County. He
holds membership in the Jefferson County Medical Society, the
Oklahoma State Medical Society and the American Medical Association,
and keeps fully abreast of the rapid strides and developments made in
medical science. Politically a republican, he has held several
offices, and at the present time is health officer of Addington.
While a resident at Alvord, Texas, he was a member of the school
board.

In 1878, in Platte County, Missouri, Doctor Murphy was married to
Miss Annie OWEN, daughter of the late Jonathan Owen, who was for some
years engaged in farming there. Mrs. Murphy died at Alvord, Texas, in
1900, leaving three children: Walter P., who is superintendent of
schools of Addington; Eugene, who is superintendent of schools of
Hastings, Oklahoma; and Mabel, who is a senior at Addington High
School. On December 23, 1900, Doctor Murphy was married a second time
when united with Mrs. Annie (STOCKTON) RHOADES, of Alvord, Texas,
daughter of Henry Stockton, deceased, who was a farmer there, as was
also her late husband, James Rhoades. Doctor and Mrs. Murphy have
three children: Hobart Amory, who is a freshman at Addington High
School; Herman Agnew, who is a student in the seventh grade of the
public schools; and Truman L., a pupil in the third grade.

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