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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



MCMURPHY, DAVID, was born Aug. 20, 1794, in Windsor county, Vermont, married in St. Lawrence county, New York, to Elizabeth White, who was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They had three living children in New York. Mr. David McMurphy visited Sangamon county in 1837, and moved his family, in 1839, to what is now Salisbury township. Of his children -

George, born Jan. 6, 1823, in St. Lawrence county, N.Y., married at Salisbury, Sangamon county, March 29, 1845, to Mary A. Miller, who was born Dec. 18, 1827. They had eight children in Sangamon county, two of whom died young. Albert, born March 29, 1846, at Salisbury, married near Carbondale, Ill., to Julia A. Prickett. They have one child, Daisey Irene, and reside in Springfield. Mr. Albert McMurphy is engaged in the grocery trade. George W., born July 31, 1850; William H., born Oct. 17, 1853; Isaac H., born January 20, 1855; Sarah A., born July 11, 1860; the four latter at Salisbury. Mary Q., born March 3, 1864, in Springfield. The five latter reside with their parents. Mr. George McMurphy moved from Salisbury to Springfield, in 1863, and is in the grocery business, corner of Madison and Sixth streets.

William H., born Nov. 20, 1826, in St. Lawrence county, N.Y., partly raised near Salisbury, Sangamon county, and married, in 1854, in Mason county, to Lucinda M. Holland. They have three children, John, Nelson and Jennie, and reside near Burton View, Logan county, Illinois.

Lester, born Jan. 28, 1833, in St. Lawrence county, N.Y., married near Salisbury, Sangamon county, March 13, 1853, to Eliza J. Parvin, who was born March 30, 1830, on the farm where she was married. They had four children, two of whom died young. David V., born May 5, 1856, and Charles, born June 22, 1862, reside with their father. Mrs. Eliza J. McMurphy died in Springfield, March 3, 1865, and Lester McMurphy was married March 26, 1867, in Jacksonville, Ill., to Mary E. Gass, a native of that city. They have two children, Frank P. and Herbert L., who reside with their parents, in Springfield. Lester McMurphy was acting post master at Salisbury for five years, and came to Springfield in 1860, and from that time to the present has been employed in the Post Office. He is now chief clerk - 1876.

David McMurphy was a practical millwright for many years before coming to Illinois, and he built many mills in Sangamon and adjoining counties.

Mrs. Elizabeth McMurphy died Oct. 18, 1868, in Springfield, and David McMurphy died Oct. 29, 1875, in Logan county, Illinois.



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