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and a Union delegate to the Arkansas secession convention, March to May, 1861, where he alone voted against secession. He joined the Union forces in Missouri in April, 1863, and served on the staff of General Curtis, and under General Steele took part in the capture of Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 10, 1863. He vras appointed provisional governor of Arkansas in January, 1864; vras elected by a vote of the people in March, 1864, and served until April, 1868. He not only paid the expenses of his administration but left $270,000 in the state treasury at the close of his term of office. He died in Huntsville, Ark., Sept. 8, 1882. MURPHY, Jeremiah, representative, was born in Lowell, Mass., Feb. 19, 1835; son of Timothy and Jerusha (Shattuck) Murphy. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Boston, Mass., and removed with his parents in 1849 to Fond Du Lac county. Wis., and in 1852 to Iowa county, Iowa. He was graduated from the State University of Iowa, LL.B. 1857, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He practised law in partnership with H, M. Martin at Marengo, 1858-67, and in Daven- port, 1867-83. He was a delegate to the Demo- cratic national conventions of 1864 and 1868; a member of the Iowa senate 1874-78, and mayor of Davenport in 1873, and 1879. He was a Demo- cratic representative from the second Iowa dis- trict in the 48th and 49th congresses, 1883-87, and while in congress worked unceasingly until an appropriation was secui'ed for the promotion of the Hennepin canal, connecting Lake Michigan with the Mississppi river. He died in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 1893.

MURPHY, John, governor of Alabama, was born in Robeson county, N.C., in 1786; son of Neil and (Downing) Murphy, and a grand- son of Murdoch Murphy, who emigrated from Scotland with his wife and children. He removed to South Carolina with his parents, taught school and was graduated at the University of South Carolina in 1808. He was clerk of the state senate, 1810-17, and a trustee of the University, 1809-18. He settled in Monroe county, Ala., in 1818 and was a member of the convention which framed the state constitution in 1819. He was admitted to the bar, but soon retired from practice and turned his attention to planting. He represented Monroe county in the legislature in 1820, was a state senator in 1822, and was Democratic governor of Alabama, 1825-29. He was defeated as the Union candidate for representative in the 21st and 22d congresses, 1828 and 1830, by Dixon H. Lew^is, and was a Union Demo- cratic representative in the 23d congress, 1833- 35. He was married first to the daughter of

Robert Hails of South Carolina and secondly to Mrs. Carter, a sister of Col. John Darrington. He died in Clark county, Ala., Sept. 21, 1841.

MURPHY, John, publisher, was born in Omagh, Ireland, March 12, 1812. He came with his parents to the United States in 1822, and settled at Newcastle, Del., where he attended school, 1822- 24, and was clerk in a country store, 1824-26. He was a clerk in Pliiladelphia, 1826-28; apprentice to a printer there, 1828-33; journeyman printer in Baltimore, Md., 1833-35, and on his own account, 1835-80. In 1840 he combined publishing with his printing business. He published the United States Catholic Magazine, edited by Fathers White and Spalding, 1842-49; the Metropolitan Magazine, 1853-59, and the Proceedings of the Maryland Historical society for over twenty-five years. He published a translation of " Definition of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception " (1855) and "Proceedings of the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore " (1866); receiving for the first a gold medal from Pope Pius IX, and for the second the honorary title of printer to the pope, a distinction never before accorded a resident of an English speaking nation. He also published the works of Cardinal Gibbons, and of Archbishop Spalding. He was an early member of the Mary- land Historical society. He was married, June 17, 1852, to Margaret O'Donoghue, of Georgetown, D.C., and his son Frank succeeded him in busi- ness. He died in Baltimore, Md., May 27, 1880.

MURPHY, John Francis, artist, was born in Oswego, N.Y., Dec, 11, 1853. He attended the public schools of Oswego, and early turned his attention to the study of art which he pursued without a teacher. He opened a studio in New York city in 1875, as a landscape painter, and first exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design in 1876. He received the second Hall- garten prize for "Tints of a Vanished Past "in 1885. He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1883; of the American Water Color society; an associate of the National Academy of Design and in 1885, an academician in 1887. He won the Carnegie prize of the Society of American Artists in 1902. Among his paint- ings are: Sunny Slopes (1879); Upland Cornfield (1880); October (1881); Woodland (1882); Rocky Slope (1883); Weedy Brook (1884); The Yellow im/ (1885); Indian Summer (1886); Sundoini (1886); Brooks and Fields (1887), and October Fog (foreign 1902).

MURPHY, John J., educator, was born in county Kildare, Ireland, Jan. 17, 1844. He was graduated in philosophy at Carlow college, 1862; studied for the priesthood at Maynooth college, 1862-66, and came to the United States in 1866, where he entered the Society of Jesus. He passed his novitiate at Frederick, Md.,