Biographical Sketch of Clayton T. Murphy, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Clayton T. Murphy, postmaster at New Haven, to which office he was 
appointed November, 1885, and which position he has since filled to
the satisfaction of all, was born in Culpeper County, Va., in 1855,
and is the younger of two sons born to Thompson and Sarah A. C. 
(Norris) Murphy, also natives of Culpeper County, Va., where they
were reared, married and passed their entire lives.  The mother died
when our subject was an infant, and the father followed her to the
grave about three years later.  The father was of Scotch-Irish des-
cent, and the son of Peter Murphy.  Clayton was reared principally
by an aunt, and received a good common school education, but later
attended school at Lexington before he left his native State.  In 
1868 he came to Missouri, and after about two years at school in 
Boonville, Mo., returned to Virginia and entered Bethel Military
Academy.  Here he was soon taken sick and was obliged to abandon
further study.  In 1872 he returned to Missouri and spent about
three years in St. Francois County, after which he moved to Frank-
lin County, and was here married January 10, 1877, to Miss Sarah A.
daughter of James T., Sr., and Helen Murphy, and also a native of
Culpeper County, Va.  Three children were born to this union: Leland
H., William I. and Olive B.  Mr. Murphy farmed until 1880, when he
moved to New Haven and clerked in a mercantile house for two years.
He then removed to Holt County, but only remained there one year
until he returned to New Haven, and has since made that city his 
home, a portion of the time teaching school until he received his
present position.  In politics he has been a life long Democrat,
casting his first presidential vote for S. J. Tilden, in 1876.  He
is a Mason, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South.

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