Contra Costa-Napa County CA Archives Biographies.....Murphy, Thomas 1830 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

THOMAS MURPHY.—This much respected citizen of Township Number Five is a native
of County Cavan, Ireland, born March 24, 1830. When but five years of age his
parents left him with an uncle while they emigrated to America, where our
subject joined them two years later in New York, and resided in that State for
five years. He then, with his parents, moved to Connecticut, where Mr. Murphy
was educated at the common schools, and resided on a farm until June, 1856, when
he started, via Panama, for the Golden State, with the intention of returning in
one year, but liking the climate and resources of the State so well, concluded
to make it his future home; he therefore sent for his wife and family, and on
their joining him, located in Napa valley, and followed farming until 1867, when
he moved to his present place, bought one hundred and sixty acres two miles
northeast of Brentwood, and in 1873, purchased eleven hundred acres in Round
valley, and is now one of the substantial farmers of Contra Costa county.
Married in Mystic, Connecticut, to Miss Alice Ross; they have five children
living: William H., James T., Annie L., Alice, and Hattie. A portrait of Mr.
Murphy will be found in this work.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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