Murphy, Phillip
BIOGRAPHIES
HISTORY OF GREENE & JERSEY COUNTIES, ILLINOIS - 1885
Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Co.
Page 934
PHILLIP MURPHY was born in county Mayo, Ireland, May 17, 1819, being a son of Francis and Bridget (Mulharen) Murphy. Philip came to America, March 10, 1844, and settled in New York, where he remained until 1851, when he removed to St. Louis, MO., where he made his home for 10 years, engaged as a laborer. He then came to Illinois, and settled in Jersey County, buying a farm of 60 acres near Delhi. There he remained three years, then sold his farm and came to Greene county, buying 80 acres of land on section 34, Linder Township, where he yet resides. By hard work and good management, he has succeeded in accumulating 360 acres of land, 160 of which is in this county, and 200 acres in Missouri. Philip Murphy and Ann Collins, a native of Ireland, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, in 1851. They were the parents of eight children - Francis, now in Nebraska; Mary A., wife of Thomas Case, in Kane Township; William, deceased; Thomas, now in Chicago, working at the plumber's trade; Maggie, James, John and Charles, at home. Mr. Murphy and family are members of the Catholic church, and, in politics, he is a liberal. He commenced life, a poor boy, but, by his own exertion, and good management, he has succeeded in gaining a competency for himself and family. Being very poor, and desirous of having an education, after his day's work was through, he would study by the light of the fire place, and at last, succeeded in getting a liberal education. He left his native country on account of the form of government he had to live under, he being a lover of free schools, and free soil. he is a staunch supporter of the Irish land league, and is a liberal minded and public spirited man. Philip's father spent his declining years with his son, departing this life on the 20th day of Aug., 1800. His mother died in 1850, in Zanesville, O. They were both members of the Catholic church.
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