Yolo-San Francisco-Mendocino County CA Archives Biographies.....Murphy, John J. 1847 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

JOHN J. MURPHY

    This respected citizen and successful mechanic of Woodland is a native of
San Francisco, born January 7, 1869, a son of John C. and Bridget L. (Pierce)
Murphy. His father, a native of Kilkenny, Ireland, crossed the Atlantic and
located in Boston, Mass., where he prospered as a butcher. About 1861 he came to
California by way of the Isthmus of Panama and settled in San Francisco, where
he re-engaged in the meat business, occupying a shop at New Montgomery and
Minnie streets until his retirement, since which time he has been a member of
the household of his son John J. Now, at ninety-three years of age, he is hale
and hearty, scarcely impaired, either physically or mentally. His good wife died
in San Francisco in 1900. Of their three children, of whom John J. was the first
born, two are living. Agnes is Mrs. Longinetti of Guatemala, Central America.

    It was in the public schools of San Francisco that John J. Murphy acquired
such education as was available to him. When he was seventeen years old he was
apprenticed to the Union Iron Works of San Francisco to learn the blacksmith's
trade, of which he was master after four years' work and instruction. The
following seven years and six months he spent as a blacksmith in the employ of
the Pacific Rolling Mills. Of this period, he served three years as foreman of
an important department of the establishment. Then we find him at Fort Bragg,
Mendocino county, where for three years he was foreman of the blacksmith
department of the Union Lumber Company. Going back to San Francisco, he was for
six years engaged as blacksmith for the Risdon Iron Works. In May, 1907, he
located in Woodland, Yolo county, and was until September, 1911, blacksmith for
the Faulkner-Peart Company. Then, having bought the old Henry Heitman shop, at
No. 314 Main street, he put new life into its business, which he has continued
with increasing success ever since, giving his attention chiefly to general
blacksmithing, carriage and wagon making.

    Mr. Murphy was married in Sacramento February 14, 1912, to Miss Ella
Robinson, who was born in Vermont. Personally, Mr. Murphy is a man of enterprise
and of much public spirit, interested in a helpful way in all that pertains to
the welfare of the community with which he has so satisfactorily cast his lot.
In fact there is no measure for the general good that does not receive in some
substantial form his encouragement and aid.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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