Robert L. Murdy Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1200-1201 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
	OCRed and edited by Maurice Krueger, mkrueger@iw.net.

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	ROBERT L. MURDY, M. D., who is successfully engaged in the 
practice of his profession in the attractive city of Aberdeen, Brown 
county, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, on the 31st of May, 
1869, and is a son of Andrew and Eliza Murdy, the lineage being of 
Scotch-Irish derivation. He received his early educational discipline in 
the public schools of Iowa, having completed a course of study in the 
high school at Moulton, while later he attended a business college in 
the city of Keokuk. In 1889 he was matriculated in the Keokuk Medical 
College, where he completed the prescribed course and was graduated as a 
member of the class of 1892, receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine. 
In 1896 he was graduated in the Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, 
Missouri, from which institution likewise he secured a degree. In 1901 
he took a post-graduate course in a clinical school in the city of 
Chicago; in 1902-3 he took postgraduate work in surgery and gynecology 
in Vienna, Austria, and upon his return to America, in the spring of 
1903, he took a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic, so that 
he is most admirably equipped for the work of his exacting and noble 
profession. In 1892 the Doctor located in Bowdle, Edmunds county, South 
Dakota, where he was engaged in practice until September of the 
following year, when he went to the city of St. Louis for further study. 
In January, 1898, he returned to South Dakota and located in Aberdeen, 
where he has since been most successfully engaged in practice save for 
the intervals given to post-graduate study in various prominent 
institutions, as previously noted. He is a member of the American 
Medical Association, the State Medical Society of South Dakota and the 
Aberdeen District Medical Society, and is held in high esteem in 
professional circles as well as in the business and social circles of 
his home city. He has read several interesting and practical papers 
before the local and state medical societies. He is surgeon for the 
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company and visiting surgeon to 
St. Luke's Hospital at Aberdeen. In politics he is a conservative 
Democrat, believing firmly in the generic principles of the party, and 
fraternally is identified with the Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is not formally a 
member of any religious body but is an attendant of the Protestant 
Episcopal church, with whose faith and impressive ritual he is in 
sympathy, Mrs. Murdy being a communicant of the same. 

	On the 19th of April, 1896, Dr. Murdy was united in marriage to 
Miss Pearl Colliver, who was born in Davis county, Iowa, being a 
daughter of John and Martha Colliver. Of this union have been born two 
children, Robert C. and Bernice, who lend cheer and brightness to the 
family home.