Terence Murphy Transcribed from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Those who hung on, desperately at times, have surely had their reward.
Prosperity follows thrift as surely as night the day, especially in Kansas.
Hardly a more conspicuous example of thrift following hard times of twenty-five or thirty years ago can be found than in the magnificent estate owned by members of the Murphy family in Lane County. There is a creek in that county called Hackberry. How it got its name is not known, since the oldest residents say there is not a single hackberry along its course. But the name of the creek has nothing to do with this story. For three miles bordering both sides of that misnamed stream is rich soil owned entirely by Murphy Brothers.