Dr. Thomas Patrick Murdock, a well known physician of Meriden, who is filling the position of police surgeon, was born in Meriden, March 6, 1888, a son of Patrick and Bridget Murdock, who came from Ireland to Connecticut about forty-five years ago.

  Dr. Murdock was a pupil in the public schools of Meriden and attended the high school from 1902 until 1906. He worked the succeeding summer and in the fall of that year entered the University of Maryland, in which he pursued his professional course, winning the M. D. degree upon graduation with the class of 1910. He put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test by serving in St. Francis’ Hospital at Hartford, Connecticut, where he remained until 1911, when he opened an office in Meriden and has since followed his profession, being accorded a liberal and well deserved practice. He was appointed police surgeon in 1912 and is still occupying that position.

  On the 23d of June, 1914, Dr. Murdock was united in marriage to Miss Alice Rose Keating, of Meriden, and they have one child, Francis Patrick, born May 10, 1915.

  Dr. and Mrs. Murdock are members of St. Joseph’s Catholic church. Fraternally he is connected with the Knights of Columbus, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Young Men’s Temperance & Benevolent Club, the Amaranth Club, the Hibernian Society and the John Dillon Club. He has been commissioned first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the United States army. He has many qualities which have rendered him personally popular, being a genial, cordial gentleman of marked personal worth, while in his profession he has gained a prominence which many an older practitioner might well envy.