St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-28

especially virnlent boil appeared on his
head. requiring an operation, but he
still made partial attempt to continue
his practice up to the beginning
/ of the new year. Since New
Year day he has been Frustrated.
and his condition has continued to grow
worse until the sad situation described
was reached, and from which death will
soon afford him release.
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
DR.. John Il. Murphy was born in New
Brunswick, n. j., on Jan. %, 1926, and
is therefore i'll his sixty ninth year. His
father, when at the age Of fourteen,
came to this country from Ireland and
settled in New Jersey. and served in the
army in the war of 1912. In 1854 he re-
moved to Quincy, ILL.,, and here his son
john completed his school education
in the Quincy high school. He studied
medicine at Lewiston, H., and grad
uated from the Rush medical college in
Chicago in 1850. He was married in
1913 in Fulton county, Illinois, to Miss
Mary A. HOvt, and removed to Mime
sofa, settling in st. Anthony (now East
III 1919, q piCtlOuS W
the completion of his course of lectures
at the Rush medical college. lmnedi-
ately upon his graduation he COM
menced the practice of medicine, making
his home at st. Anthony until 1864,
when he removed to st. Paul, where he
has ever since resided. When DR.. j. II.
Stewart, surgeon of the First Minnesota,
was captured at Bull Run, DR.. Murphy
was selected to take his place, and
promptly went to the front, serving in
the Army of the Potomac for six
months. He was then appointed
surgeon of the Fourth Minnesota,
attached. to Gen. McPherson's Sew
enteenth army corps and served as
division surgeon until sunstroke in
1864 compelled him to return home.
Upon his recovery he was appointed
surgeon of the Eighth Minnesota, en-
gagged in frontier service against the
Indians, and remained in that position
until the close of hostilities in 1865. His
army service gave him great experience
in surgery, and he had few equals in that
lire of practice. Though general prac-
tltioner, his great speciality was surgery
and his services were in demand for diff
ficult and delicate operations through
out the Northwest. 1t also led 10 bis
employment as railroad surgeon by
many Of the great corporations, and at
the time of bis fatal illness he was the
general surgeon of nearly every prom
inent railroad centering in st. Paul.
In both public ana private life he has
been prominent and eminent. He was
a member of the territorial legislature
in 1852, and of the state constitutional
convention of 1857. He was again a
member OF the legislature IN 1855. For
some nine or ten years he occupied the
position of surgeon general of the state.
He was also once president of the Ma
tional Association of Railroad Surgeons.
and member of the American medical
and state medical societies at the pres.
ent time.
In secret society work he was
especially active, being conspicuous
among the Masons and Odd Fellows and
a Knigh: Templar and Mystic Shriner
in the former. He was also an officer in
the Loyal Legion. active In the Grand
| Army of the Republic and in the
Methodist church. of which he
was member. He was not only
member of the Old Settlers Asso-
citation, but is its present treasurer. He
was an ardent Republican, though never
very active in politics; but his popular
ity was so great that his party was ever
ready to choose him as a local leader.
He was repeatedly urged to be candi-
date for mayor. and at one time actually
| nominated; but he declined to make the
race against his old friend, Robert A.
| Smith.
OF seven children but four survive,
and these, with his wife, are at the
family residence, SIG jackson street,
watching the rapidly ebbing life of the
beloved husband and father. The liv-
ing children are Mrs. Emma Blaisdel,
widow of Davis Blaisdel, who died in