H. C. Murphy

DIPBOYE, MURPHY

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/10/2004 at 11:18:47

H. C. Murphy, Earlham; dealer in grain and stock; P.O. Earlham; born in Wayne county, Indiana, in 1837, where he was raised; engaged in mercantile business in 1853 and continued at it until 1874, when he moved to this county, and again engaged in the mercantile business; he owns a fine farm of 240 acres in section eighteen; he raises grain for stock feeding; situated on his farm is a valuable limestone quarry; he married in Middletown, Indiana, in 1868, to Mary A. Dipboye, a native of that county; they have two daughters: Mattie Edith and Winnetha; Mr. Murphy enlisted in August, 1862, as commissary of the Eighty-fourth Indiana infantry; was mustered out with the regiment in July 1865; he participated in twenty-three battles: Chicamaugua, Resacca, Kenesaw Mountain, Lookout Mountain; siege of Atlanta, two day fighting at Nashville, Franklin, and so on through many others without receiving wounds or ever being in the hospital; Mr. Murphy never asked for a furlough during his three years in the service.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 643, 644