E. R. MURPHY is a native of New Albany, Indiana, where he was born April 29,
1838.  He is one of five children, and a son of RICHARD G. and ELIZABETH
MURPHY, who were natives respectively of HARPERS's FERRY, VIRGINIA and
Newark, New Jersey, and who settled in Indiana in 1835.  E. R. Murphy was
educated in the public schools of his native city, and December 2, 1861,
enlisted in the Seventh Independent Battery of Indiana Light Artillery.  He
was an active participant in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Lookout
Mountain, Chickamauga, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Jonesborough and a large
number of lesser engagements, and was honorably discharged December 2, 1864.
In 1868 Mr. Murphy came to Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana, and having
learned the business before the war, engaged in the stone-cutter's trade in
partnership with W.H. LANE, which continued for two years when Mr. Murphy
assumed the entire business alone.  In 1879 he admitted THOMAS H. MALOTT as
a partner, and this continued until May, 1883, since then he has been
associated with ARTHUR FULLEN.  This firm is reliably established and their
annual sales reach $3,000.  April 29, 1873, witnessed the marriage of MARY
E. BUTLER to E.R. Murphy, and their union has been productive in the birth
of two children, named EDITH M. and FRANK B.  The parents belong to the
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. Murphy is one of the finest workmen on
stone in the State, and makes a specialty in cleaving and drawing.  In
politics he is a Republican, and is a member of the Subordinate Lodge of Odd
Fellows.


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