Greene County AlArchives Biographies.....Murphy, Samuel S. November 14 1825 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    DR. SAMUEL S. MURPHY, a prominent citizen and successful physician of
Pleasant Ridge, was born in Greene county, Ala., November 14, 1825. He is a son
of James and Angelina (Saddler) Murphy, natives of South Carolina. His paternal
grandparents were Robert and Rachael (Rainey) Murphy, also natives of South
Carolina. His paternal great-grandfather was a native of Ireland, and came to
this country prior to the Revolutionary war, settling in South Carolina. He
served as a soldier in that war. The parents of Miss Angelina Saddler were Isaac
and Elizabeth Saddler, natives of South Carolina. James Murphy, father of Dr.
Samuel S. Murphy, came to Alabama in 1818, and settled in Greene county, near
Eutaw, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a machinist by trade,
and manufactured cotton gins, at which he acquired a handsome fortune, there
being no competition in those days. He was born November 11, 1796, and died in
1872. His wife was born in 1800, and died in 1874. They were the parents of
eight children, all of whom lived to maturity, and seven of whom are now living,
viz.: Caroline, wife of H. D. Boutwell, a farmer and resident of Pickens county;
Dr. Samuel S.; Julia L., wife of J. M. McGowan, of Tuscaloosa; Mary A., wife of
S. F. Nunnelee, a retired journalist and politician, of Anniston, Ala.;
Elizabeth Starr, wife of W. H. Somerville, farmer and merchant, of Pickens
county; Dr. Adolphus S. Murphy, a physician and druggist, of Eutaw, Ala., and
Jas. A. Murphy, farmer, of Bethany, Pickens county, Ala. The one that died was
named Cornelia R. Dr. Samuel S. Murphy was married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth
Steele, a native of Greene county, Ala., and born July 23, 1832. To their
marriage have been born eight children, three of whom only are living, viz.:
Thomas E., a physician of Bethany, Pickens county; Samuel S., Jr., who is
teaching his third year at Barton academy, Mobile, Ala.; and Charles M., a
student at the university of Alabama, where he is taking a course in the
literary department. Five have died, three in infancy; the others being William
M., a promising and bright young man, who was killed by the accidental discharge
of a gun in his own hands, while at Poughkeepsie college, N. Y., where he was
taking a business course of instruction, and Mary E., deceased wife of James H.
Archibald. Dr. Murphy received his preliminary education in the schools of
Eutaw. In 1842 he entered the university of Alabama, attending four sessions,
and graduating in the literary course. In 1850 he attended a session at the
medical college of Louisiana, at New Orleans. For a number of years afterward he
was engaged in the drug business in Eutaw, in partnership with his brother, Dr.
A. S. Murphy, of Eutaw. He then sold his interest in the business to his
brother, and established himself in the mercantile business at Pleasant Ridge.
In 1870 he resumed his medical studies, entering the medical college at Mobile,
from which he graduated the same year. He began the practice of medicine with
Dr. C. P. Sanders, an old physician of Pleasant Ridge, and remained with him
several years. He then opened an office individually, and has since continued in
practice at Pleasant Ridge. He is a cultured and scholarly gentleman, whose many
admirable qualities and traits of mind and heart have won for him the highest
respect of his friends and acquaintances. He owns about 240 acres of land and a
comfortable residence property, the latter in the village of Pleasant Ridge. He
and his wife are members of the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian church, and she is
now the only one living that was present at its organization.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1051-1052
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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