HISTORY: MURPHY, John  1912 HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
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JOHN W. MURPHY, A.M., M.D.
                   Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912
                           Transcribed by: Jody Clayburn
  
  
Dr. John W. Murphy, prominent as a representative 
of the medical profession,  specializing as an
oculist and aurist, was born in Logan, Ohio, 
September 14, 1856, a son of John a. and Sarah J.
(Cunningham) Murphy.  The former is of Scotch-Irish 
extraction and has been represented in
Pennsylvania for a number of generations.  The 
father was born in that state but the greater part of his
life was spent in Logan, Ohio, where he became one 
of the successful merchants, conducting a profitable
business for many years, and at all times enjoying 
the respect, confidence and good will of his fellow
townsmen.  He died in 1893, at the age of seventy-five years. 
  In the public schools of his native town, Dr. 
Murphy began his education and afterward prepared for
college in Delaware, Ohio.  He graduated from the 
Ohio Wesleyan University in that city with the class
of 1888 and received the degree of Masters of Arts 
from his alma mater three years later.  His
preceptor in the study of medicine was Dr. John 
McDowell, of Delaware, and in the fall of 1888 he
entered the Miami Medical College, in which he 
completed the regular three years course with the class
of 1891.  He then removed to Cincinnati and after 
five years general practice went abroad for
post-graduate study in Berlin, Halle and Vienna, 
carrying on his investigations as a specialist in the
treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and 
throat.  He had the benefit of instruction from some of
the eminent oculists and aurists of the old world and 
his preparation well qualified him for the work to
which he has since given his attention.  After fifteen 
months he returned to Cincinnati, where he began
practice as a specialist.  Since that he has been 
abroad for further study three times, making the last
trip in 1911.  Most of his time on these trips has 
been spent with the specialist in his broad field and in
the hospitals at Vienna, where he has seen the work 
of some of the most distinguished representatives of
the profession in the old world. 
  Aside from private practice, Dr. Murphy has served 
on the staff of the Cincinnati Hospital as
laryngologist, was professor of laryngology at the 
Ohio Medical College at Miami, and is a member of
the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State
 Medical Society and the American Medical
Association.  He also belongs to the Ophthalmologic 
and Oto-Laryngological Society and to the
Oto-Laryngological and Rhinological Society, while 
in his college days he became a member of the Alpha
Kappa Kappa. 
  Dr. Murphy was married in 1893 to Miss Anne Morrison, 
a daughter of Robert Morrison, of Delaware,
Ohio.  They are members of the Walnut Hills Methodist 
Episcopal church and are prominent socially,
having a circle of warm friends who entertain 
for them high regard.  The consensus of public opinion
places Dr. Murphy in a prominent position as a 
specialist and his view are always listened to with
interest by brother practitioners, who recognize the 
fact that he has long since passed beyond the point
of mediocrity and stands among the successful few.