{"id":315,"date":"2013-07-06T23:28:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T03:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/?p=315"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:24:34","slug":"murphy-john-williams-b-1886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/murphy-john-williams-b-1886\/","title":{"rendered":"MURPHY, John Williams (b. 1886)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Huntingdon<\/p>\n<p><strong>MURPHY, John Williams,\u00a0<\/strong>lawyer; born at Hamburg, Ark., April 14, 1886; Scotch-Irish, Anglo-Saxon and Dutch descent; son of\u00a0<strong>Joseph Warren\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Mary Emily (Johnson) MURPHY;\u00a0<\/strong>fathers\u2019 occupation farmer; paternal grandparents\u00a0<strong>Joseph Robertson\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Grace (Leslie) MURPHY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents\u00a0<strong>William\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Julia (Salmon) JOHNSON<\/strong>; educated at Lexington M. &amp; F. Institute, Tenn., and N. N. U., Lebanon, O.; graduated from National Normal University, Lebanon, O., in Aug. 1891, degrees conferred, B. S. in 1890, B. A. in 1891 and M. A. in 1893; married\u00a0<strong>Gertrude SMITH,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Blanchester, O., Sept. 16, 1892; worked on a farm until 21 years of age; later taught school and read law; taught school at Holladay, Tenn., 1891-3, Wildersville, Tenn., 1893-5, Sugar Tree, Tenn., 1895-7; began practice of law at Camden Tenn., in 1898; moved to Huntingdon, Tenn., in Oct. 1898, and formed a law partnership with\u00a0<strong>Judge John R. HAWKINS<\/strong>\u00a0and his son\u00a0<strong>Lee B. HAWKINS<\/strong>\u00a0under the name of Hawkins &amp; Murphy, which partnership was dissolved in 1900; practice law in Huntingdon, Tenn. since that time without partner; member of the Missionary Baptist church.<\/p>\n<div>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><\/a>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Huntingdon MURPHY, John Williams,\u00a0lawyer; born at Hamburg, Ark., April 14, 1886; Scotch-Irish, Anglo-Saxon and Dutch descent; son of\u00a0Joseph Warren\u00a0and\u00a0Mary Emily (Johnson) MURPHY;\u00a0fathers\u2019 occupation farmer; paternal grandparents\u00a0Joseph Robertson\u00a0and\u00a0Grace (Leslie) MURPHY; maternal grandparents\u00a0William\u00a0and\u00a0Julia (Salmon) JOHNSON; educated at Lexington M. &amp; F. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/murphy-john-williams-b-1886\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,41],"tags":[141,71,139,138,140,28],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-huntingdon","tag-hawkins","tag-johnson","tag-leslie","tag-murphy","tag-salmon","tag-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}