Genealogy of Northeast Pennsylvania

Dr Francis Leo Murphy

A graduate of the Dunmore High School, educated for the medical profession in a southern university, Dr Francis Leo Murphy is one of the latest additions to Dunmore's competent corps of medical men, and has before him every prospect for a life of professional usefulness and good. His ancestry is Irish, his father, John C Murphy, having been born in Ireland, and after immigrating to the United States became a jobber. He married Mary McMunn, of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, and had seven children, four sons and three daughters.

Dr Francis Leo Murphy, youngest of the seven children of John C and Mary (McMunn) Murphy, was born in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, 20 May 1890. He received his scholastic training in the public schools of that place, graduating from high school in the class of 1909. Strongly attracted to the medical profession, he entered the medical department of Georgetown University, at Washington, District of Columbia, completing his course in that institution in 1913. Since that time he has been engaged in practise in the borough of his birth, and is now connected wit the State hospital at Scranton. He is examiner for Erie Railroad, Brotherhood of Trainmen, and Protected Home Circle. He is a member of Washington Council, Washington DC, Knights of Columbus, and the Phi Beta Phi Fraternity, to which he was elected while at Georgetown University. His church is St Mary's Roman Catholic.


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  1. Hitchcock, Col Frederick L, History of Scranton and its People , illustrated, Vol I & II, New York City: Lewis Historical publishing Company, 1914, p358
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