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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

W. J. MURPHY.
    W. J. Murphy, a saddlery manufacturer of Fort Smith, who has developed a
business of large proportions, which is one of the important productive
industries of the city, was born in the state of New York, in 1851. His boyhood
and youth were passed in New York state and the period of his early manhood was
spent in New York and St. Louis. He came to Fort Smith in 1885, when thirty-four
years of age and here turned his attention to the business in which he is now
engaged. His thoroughness and capability have been manifest throughout the
period of his residence in western Arkansas. In the thirty-six years which have
elapsed since Mr. Murphy took up his abode in Fort Smith the business has
steadily grown until today he utilizes a large building, five stories in height,
with a frontage of forty-five feet and a depth of one hundred and thirty feet.
His plant is splendidly equipped with the latest improved machinery to
facilitate the work and the product is of such excellent quality as to find a
steady sale on the market. The output is sold to the wholesale trade through
Oklahoma and western Arkansas and the business is one of gratifying proportions.

    Mr. Murphy was united in marriage to Miss Mollie Durkin of Dubuque, Iowa,
and they have become the parents of two sons and a daughter: Robert J., William
J., and Angie. The latter is now the wife of R. W. Halliburton of Fort Smith.
Mr. Murphy is a member of the Business Men's Cluh and also of the traffic
bureau, being thus identified with organizations which are making a thorough and
systematic study of business conditions and opportunities, with the purpose of
upbuilding Fort Smith as a trade center and enlarging the scope of its
commercial activities.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922


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