From: Taylor, William A. Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co, 1909.
Joseph A. Murphy, M. D.
Joseph A. Murphy, physician and surgeon of Columbus, comes of an ancestry having a most creditable
military record. His great-grandfather, Martin Murphy, a native of the north of Ireland, crossed the Atlantic
at the time of the Revolutionary war and served with the American forces. His son, John Murphy, grandfather
of Dr. Murphy, was born in Ohio and became a soldier of the war of 1812. Joseph J. Murphy, the doctor's
father, was a native of Guernsey county, Ohio, and when the country became involved in civil war, he
enlisted under the stars and stripes, serving in the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Ohio and the Twentieth
Ohio Regiments. He was with Sherman on the celebrated march to the sea, and after the close of hostilities
was mustered out at Columbus. For many years he followed farming, and is now living retired in Vinton
county, Ohio, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Since the organization of the republican party he
has been one of its staunch advocates, and though he never sought nor desired office he has served as
township treasurer and has been a much respected citizen of the community in which he has made his
home. He married Caroline Martindale, who was born in Meigs county, Ohio, in 1827. They have now
traveled life's journey together for sixty-one years, their mutual love and confidence increasing as time
passed by.
[The remainer of the article does not pertain to Meigs County and was not transcribed.]