Dr. Murphy is the son of Patrick Murphy and Eliza Ann Faison. He was born in Sampson county, NC and is a brother to Mary Bailey, Susan Moseley, Laura Maria Murphy Devane, Robert Thomas, William Faison, Louisa Eliza, Matthew James, David Bailey and Annie Belle Murphy. His father was a lawyer.
The 1870 census shows him with family in New Hanover county, NC as a medical student.
He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1871. He married Bettie Waddell Bumgardner in about 1878 and they are the parents of Malinda, William Alexander, James B Murphy, MD and Robert Livingston Murphy.
Dr. Murphy first worked as an attendant physician at the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, VA and is seen there with wife and daughter in the 1880 census. Soon thereafter he moved to Morganton to assist in the creation of the Western NC asylum being built there in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Dr. Murphy would serve as the Superintendent of Western NC insane asylum (later called State Hospital of Morganton and then Broughton State Hospital) from 1882 until his death in 1907. He had been ill for about a year and underwent several surgeries but died, eventually, of pancreatitis. He was buried on the hospital campus until his remains were moved here to rest beside those of his wife. The hospital maintains a cemetery for those in its care who are buried there. They are listed on FAG under Broughton Hospital Cemetery in Morganton, NC.
Dr. Murphy's sister, Laura, was cared for at the asylum in her later years and died there just months before he did. Their sister, Anna Bella Murphy, died in 1886.
There has been no greater advocate for the mentally ill in NC than Dr. Murphy. "The public at large, while still ignorant to some extent of the work done, and of the care bestowed on the insane, is much better informed than it was and the horror and dread of being confined in an asylum is giving away to a feeling of relief that the sick person is sent to a hospital to be restored to health, and, failing that, to be properly and tenderly cared for." He tirelessly worked with the Board of Directors and the Governors and Legislators of NC to acquire funds to provide for the care of the state's mentally ill. "I must beg you to leave nothing undone that will help the most helpless of all God's creatures."
The 1870 census shows him with family in New Hanover county, NC as a medical student.
He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1871. He married Bettie Waddell Bumgardner in about 1878 and they are the parents of Malinda, William Alexander, James B Murphy, MD and Robert Livingston Murphy.
Dr. Murphy first worked as an attendant physician at the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, VA and is seen there with wife and daughter in the 1880 census. Soon thereafter he moved to Morganton to assist in the creation of the Western NC asylum being built there in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Dr. Murphy would serve as the Superintendent of Western NC insane asylum (later called State Hospital of Morganton and then Broughton State Hospital) from 1882 until his death in 1907. He had been ill for about a year and underwent several surgeries but died, eventually, of pancreatitis. He was buried on the hospital campus until his remains were moved here to rest beside those of his wife. The hospital maintains a cemetery for those in its care who are buried there. They are listed on FAG under Broughton Hospital Cemetery in Morganton, NC.
Dr. Murphy's sister, Laura, was cared for at the asylum in her later years and died there just months before he did. Their sister, Anna Bella Murphy, died in 1886.
There has been no greater advocate for the mentally ill in NC than Dr. Murphy. "The public at large, while still ignorant to some extent of the work done, and of the care bestowed on the insane, is much better informed than it was and the horror and dread of being confined in an asylum is giving away to a feeling of relief that the sick person is sent to a hospital to be restored to health, and, failing that, to be properly and tenderly cared for." He tirelessly worked with the Board of Directors and the Governors and Legislators of NC to acquire funds to provide for the care of the state's mentally ill. "I must beg you to leave nothing undone that will help the most helpless of all God's creatures."
Dr. Murphy is the son of Patrick Murphy and Eliza Ann Faison. He was born in Sampson county, NC and is a brother to Mary Bailey, Susan Moseley, Laura Maria Murphy Devane, Robert Thomas, William Faison, Louisa Eliza, Matthew James, David Bailey and Annie Belle Murphy. His father was a lawyer.
The 1870 census shows him with family in New Hanover county, NC as a medical student.
He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1871. He married Bettie Waddell Bumgardner in about 1878 and they are the parents of Malinda, William Alexander, James B Murphy, MD and Robert Livingston Murphy.
Dr. Murphy first worked as an attendant physician at the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, VA and is seen there with wife and daughter in the 1880 census. Soon thereafter he moved to Morganton to assist in the creation of the Western NC asylum being built there in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Dr. Murphy would serve as the Superintendent of Western NC insane asylum (later called State Hospital of Morganton and then Broughton State Hospital) from 1882 until his death in 1907. He had been ill for about a year and underwent several surgeries but died, eventually, of pancreatitis. He was buried on the hospital campus until his remains were moved here to rest beside those of his wife. The hospital maintains a cemetery for those in its care who are buried there. They are listed on FAG under Broughton Hospital Cemetery in Morganton, NC.
Dr. Murphy's sister, Laura, was cared for at the asylum in her later years and died there just months before he did. Their sister, Anna Bella Murphy, died in 1886.
There has been no greater advocate for the mentally ill in NC than Dr. Murphy. "The public at large, while still ignorant to some extent of the work done, and of the care bestowed on the insane, is much better informed than it was and the horror and dread of being confined in an asylum is giving away to a feeling of relief that the sick person is sent to a hospital to be restored to health, and, failing that, to be properly and tenderly cared for." He tirelessly worked with the Board of Directors and the Governors and Legislators of NC to acquire funds to provide for the care of the state's mentally ill. "I must beg you to leave nothing undone that will help the most helpless of all God's creatures."
The 1870 census shows him with family in New Hanover county, NC as a medical student.
He graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1871. He married Bettie Waddell Bumgardner in about 1878 and they are the parents of Malinda, William Alexander, James B Murphy, MD and Robert Livingston Murphy.
Dr. Murphy first worked as an attendant physician at the Western Lunatic Asylum in Staunton, VA and is seen there with wife and daughter in the 1880 census. Soon thereafter he moved to Morganton to assist in the creation of the Western NC asylum being built there in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Dr. Murphy would serve as the Superintendent of Western NC insane asylum (later called State Hospital of Morganton and then Broughton State Hospital) from 1882 until his death in 1907. He had been ill for about a year and underwent several surgeries but died, eventually, of pancreatitis. He was buried on the hospital campus until his remains were moved here to rest beside those of his wife. The hospital maintains a cemetery for those in its care who are buried there. They are listed on FAG under Broughton Hospital Cemetery in Morganton, NC.
Dr. Murphy's sister, Laura, was cared for at the asylum in her later years and died there just months before he did. Their sister, Anna Bella Murphy, died in 1886.
There has been no greater advocate for the mentally ill in NC than Dr. Murphy. "The public at large, while still ignorant to some extent of the work done, and of the care bestowed on the insane, is much better informed than it was and the horror and dread of being confined in an asylum is giving away to a feeling of relief that the sick person is sent to a hospital to be restored to health, and, failing that, to be properly and tenderly cared for." He tirelessly worked with the Board of Directors and the Governors and Legislators of NC to acquire funds to provide for the care of the state's mentally ill. "I must beg you to leave nothing undone that will help the most helpless of all God's creatures."
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