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of Improvements Contemplated and the Resources and Finances of the State (1819); An Oration be- fore the University of North Carolina (1827); Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, ISO4-IO (1826). See Peele's " Lives of Distiuguished North Carolinians" (1898). He (lied in Hillsborough, N.C., Feb. 3, 1832.

MURPHY, Edward, senator, was born in Troy, N.Y., Dec. 15, 1836; son of Edward Murphy, a native of Ireland, who settled in Troy about 1830, and in 1846 established a brewery there. The son was graduated at St. John's college, Fordham, N.Y., in 1857, and engaged with his father in business. On the retirement of his father, the firm became Kennedy «& Murpliy and subsequently the Kennedy & Murphy Malting company, of which he was made vice-president and treasurer. He was a city alderman. 1864-66; fire commissioner 1874-79; mayor, 1875-83: and a member of the Democratic state committee, 1882-95, serving as treasurer, 1884-87, and chair- man, 1887-95. He was principal owner and busi- ness manager of the Troy Daily Press, 1887-89; president of the Troy Gas company, and vice- president of the Manufacturers' National bank. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1880, 1884. 1888, 1892 and 1896 and was U.S. senator from New York, 1893-99. He served in the senate as chairman of the commit- tee on relations with Canada.

MURPHY, Franklin, governor of New Jersey, was born in Jersey City, N.J., January 3, 1846; son of William H. and Abby EUzabeth (Hagar) Murphy; grandson of "William Murphy, and a descendant of Robert Murpliy, who emigrated from Ireland and settled in Connecticot in 1756. He served in the 13th New Jersey ^'' 'lunteers, 1862-65, reaching tilt rank of 1st lieutenant. He established in 1865 the busi- ness of Murphy & Company, varnish manufacturers. He was chairman of the Republican state committee in 1892 and in 1900 was a member of the Republi- can national executive committee. He was a del- egate-at-large to the St. Lr)ui8 Republican national convention of 1896 and 1900, and was a U.S. com- missioner to the Paris exposition of 19C0. He was president-general of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1899, and was made a member of the Society of Colonial Wars and of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. In 1901 he was elected governor of New Jersey for the term 1902-5.

MURPHY, Henry Cruse, representative, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 5. 1810; son of John Garrison and Clarissa (Runyon) Murphy, and grandson of Dr. Timothy and 3Iary (Garrison)

Murphy of Monmouth county, N.J. He was graduated from Columbia college in 1830; was admitted to the bar in 1833, and practised in Brooklyn inpartnenship with John A. Lott, 1835, and afterward as Lott, Murphy & Vanderbilt. He was assistant corporation council in 1834, and afterward became city attorney and cor- porati(m council. He contributed articles to the Brooklyn Advocate and Nassau Gazette; to the Democratic Revieiv and to the North American Review, and became a proprietor and editor of the Brooklyn Z)aj7(/JE^agf/e on its establishment in 1841. He was mayor of Brooklyn, 1842-43; a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1846; a Democratic representative in the 28th and 30th congresses, 1843-45 and 1847-49; was named as an available candidate for the presidency' in the Democratic national convention of 1852, and was U.S. minister to The Hague under Buchanan's administration, 1857-61. On his return to King's county he served for six terms in the state senate, 1861-73'; raised the 159th New York volunteers in 1862, and was a delegate to the state constitu- tional convention of 1867-68. He was a founder of the new Long Island Historical society and of the Brooklyn City library and was president of the East River Bridge company and of the Brook- lyn, Flatbush and Coney Island railroad com- pany. He accumulated a valuable library on the the history of America, of which he published a catalogue under the title A Catalogue of an American Library Chronologically Arranged (1853). He also published De Vries' Voyage from Holland to America, A.D., 1632-44, (translated, 1853); Broad Advice to the New Netherlands; Tlie First Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in the United States (printed privately. 1857); Henry Hudson in Holland (1859); Anthology of the New Netherlands, or Translations from the Early Dutch Poets of Neiv York, with Memoirs of their Lives (1865); The Voyage of Verrazano (printed privately, 1875), and 3Iemoir of Herman Ernst Ludeu'ig in " Memorial Biographies of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 1, 1882.

MURPHY, Isaac, governor of Arkansas, was born near Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 16, 1802; son of Hugh and Jane (Williams) Murphy. He re- moved to Montgomery county, Tenn., where he taught school, 1829-34, was married July 31, 1830, to Angelina A. Lockhart of Tennessee, removed to Fayetteville, Ark., with his family in 1834, and taught school and was a leader in promoting education in that section of the state. He was admitted to the bar in 1835, and engaged in the practice of law and in civil engineering. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1848-49» was in California, 1849-54, and in 1854 settled in Huntsville, Ark. He was a state senator in 1856