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MURPHY, John Williams, <\/strong>lawyer; born at Hamburg, Ark., April 14, 1886; Scotch-Irish, Anglo-Saxon and Dutch descent; son of Joseph Warren <\/strong>and Mary Emily (Johnson) MURPHY; <\/strong>fathers\u2019 occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Joseph Robertson <\/strong>and Grace (Leslie) MURPHY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents William <\/strong>and Julia (Salmon) JOHNSON<\/strong>; educated at Lexington M. & 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 Gertrude SMITH, <\/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 Judge John R. HAWKINS<\/strong> and his son Lee B. HAWKINS<\/strong> under the name of Hawkins & 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Huntingdon MURPHY, John Williams, lawyer; born at Hamburg, Ark., April 14, 1886; Scotch-Irish, Anglo-Saxon and Dutch descent; son of Joseph Warren and Mary Emily (Johnson) MURPHY; fathers\u2019 occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Joseph Robertson and Grace (Leslie) MURPHY; maternal grandparents William and Julia (Salmon) JOHNSON; educated at Lexington M. & F. Institute, Tenn., and N. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2365,82,4419],"tags":[4360,2008,1374,4356],"class_list":{"0":"post-4326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carroll","7":"category-lexington-m-f-institute","8":"category-surname-m","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-johnson","11":"tag-leslie","12":"tag-murphy","13":"tag-smith","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15702,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/15702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}