Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Murphy, Joseph G. 1855 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JOSEPH G. MURPHY, implement dealer of Adrian, and member of the board of

county commissioners, is one of the early day settlers of Nobles county and a

pioneer of the west end. He was born at Portage, Wis., Sept. 13, 1855. His

father, Joseph Murphy, was born in Ireland, came to the United States in 1847,

and located at Portage, Wis. There he engaged in farming and freighting between

Milwaukee and Portage before railroads were built in that part of the country,

and in that town he died. Our subject's mother is Elizabeth (Mason) Murphy, who

was born in Dublin and is still living in Portage. She has nine children

living-eight sons and one daughter.



  Mr. Murphy was educated in his native state and engaged in farm work near

Portage until 1876, when he went to Rochester, Minn. There he remained until the

fall of 1877, when he came to Nobles county and took an eighty-acre homestead on

section 30, Leota township. For several years he worked on the farm of Thos.

Grace, three miles west of the village of Adrian, three years of which time he

was foreman of the farm. He then went onto his own place and farmed it three

years. In 1888 he moved to Adrian, bought a dray line, and ran it five years. He

purchased the Grant & Hanna implement house there in 1890, and ever since that

date has been engaged in the implement business.



  Mr. Murphy was married at Rochester, Minn., Jan. 16, 1883, to Bridget C. Ryan,

daughter of Daniel and Bridget Ryan, of Rochester. To Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have

been born two daughters: Elizabeth (Mrs. Robert Thom), of Kenneth, born Sept.

19, 1884; Mary (Mrs. Joseph Lenz), of Grand Prairie, born Oct. 15, 1885. Before

their marriage both daughters taught three years in Nobles county's schools.



  When Leota township was organized Mr. Murphy was elected chairman of the board

of supervisors and served two terms. He served eight years as constable of

Adrian village, and was a member of the village council in 1904 and 1905. He was

elected county commissioner from the third district on the democratic ticket in

1900 and was reelected in 1904. During the year 1906 he served as chairman of

the board.



  Mr. Murphy is a member of the Catholic church and of the Catholic Order of

Foresters. He owns eighty acres of land in section 3, Olney township, and six

lots in the village of Adrian.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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