Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1907-09-18
DIR. MURPHY dead.
Head of Nsr:n Carolina Insane
Hospital Passes Away
A MAN OF RARE ATTAINMENTS
Superintendent of State Hospita;
succumbs to Illness From Which
He Suffered d Year-Was Fifty
Nine Years of Age and Had Been
at. Hell of Hospital Since Its Es.!
tabishmcnt A Noble Man Gcae-
Sketch Of Els Career.

. Charlotte, N. c., special.-Dr. Pat
rick Livingston Murphy, for 25 years
superintendent of the State Hospital
at Morganton died Wednesday morll-
ming at 11:30 O'Clock at his home in
Morganton after an illness of year.
DR.. Murphy was 50 years of age.
He was born on October %, 1913 in
Sampson county near Clinton, and
there spent the younger part of his
life. He was the son of the late Pat
rick Murphy and before her marriage
his mother was Miss Eliza A. Faison
He was educated at the Bingham
School, which was then at the Oaks
afterwards at Mcbane.
When General Stoneman at the
close of the war, dashed through The
mountains and made his raid from
Greensboro to Salisbury the cadet
corps was ordered into the field 10
meet him: but that was the only mill,
tary service that DR.. Murphy ever
performed.
Educational ADVANTAGES.
Later he went to school 10 Colonel
Tew, at Hillsboro. His medical edu-
cation was completed at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, but after receiving
his degree there he studied several
years more at the University of
Maryland. For several years he prac-
ticed medicine in Sampson county
and from there went to Stanton, Va,
where he served some timo as assist
ant physician at the Western Insane
Asylum. While in Staunton he re.
ceived the appointment to the super
intendcntcy of the hospital for the
insane at Morganton and since that
time had made Morganton his home
Held Many Eorors.
DR.. Murphy was member Of tie
board Of medical examiners of Nort'l
Carolina and one Of the board of di-
rectors of the School for the Deaf
and Dumb at Morganton. He was at
one time the president of the Norti
Carolina Medical Society and an off
Ger in the American Medico-Psycholo-
logical Association.
Marriage in 1878.
He was married to Miss Bette
Waddella Bumgardner Of Augusta
county, Virginia. From the marriage
there are four surviving children.
They are Miss May McKorkle Muir
ply, Mr.. WilSam Alexander Murphy
Mr.. James Bumgardner Murphy, and
Mr.. Robert Livinston Murphy, Mrs.
Charles Williams, of Wallace, N. c.,
a sister of DR.. Murphy also survives
him.
The death of DR.. Murphy was not
unexpected. He has been i'll for the
past year, and last September was
taken to Baltimore during the past
year he was operated on several
times and was finally sent home by
his physicians, there to die. Tie
cause of his death was pancretitis.
His beloved wife and children wer5
a. his bedside when the end came.
All fAu6utSUc VI a1Su dN1Si1t.
While DR.. Murphy was an alienist
of very high tzerit he was wonder
fully endowed with common sense
and as a practical administrator had
no superior In the management OF
the Hospital he conducted the affairs
Of the immense institution SO as to
excite genuine admiration. At the
head of this geat State institution
which he has controlled since it was
founded in 1883 and which under him
has received more than 1000 patients
DR.. Murphy most successfully and adj
mirably managed it. He stood in the
first rank among the eminent men Of
his profession ard reflected honor
upon the medical fraternity and upon
the people among whom he was born
and raised. In person like his father
he was tall Of statue, sinewy and ca
pable of long-continued cxertion. AL
though delicate in his early youth
in his more mature manhood he was
vigorous and full of health.
ACCOuuI Z lom mo1 Setutoit.
Morgantop, Special Or. P. L.
Murphy superintendent Of the State
Hospital here, died at 1880 O'Clock
Wednesday after a years sickness.
His death was not unexpected. At
his bed side were all the members of
his family, his wife and four children
The board of directors were in sc.-
sion at the time death occurred and
adjourned for one hour, Messrs. j.
P. Sawyer and C. II. Armfeld bring
ing in by appointment at the cxpira
tion of that time suitable tribute
which was adopted. The State flag
on the main hospital building was
placed at half mast. DR.. Murphy was
so years of age and had been superb.
tendent Of the Hospital since it was
opened January 1888.
No Hope of Arbitration Court.