DANIEL MURPHY

was born in Ireland September 29, 1824.  He lived there until he was twenty-five years old, when he emigrated to the United States, landing in Boston on the eighteenth of June, 1849.  He was in the neighborhood of Fall River, and worked in a brickyard at Potterville, making brick and crockery.  In 1853 he came to California and landed in San Francisco in October of that year.  He went up into the mines on Fraser River, in British Columbia, where he remained until 1858, until the gold excitement abated.  He remained around there until Christmas, and left Victoria on New Year’s day for San Francisco.  He was married there to Mrs. Mary (Farley) Sullivan, a native of Ireland, and made his home in the city until the spring of 1866.  He then went to Banix City, Idaho, where he worked in the mines.  In September, 1867, he returned to San Francisco, and in the latter part of January, 1868, came to Santa Clara County.  He went on the farm where he now lives, first hired out to Mr. Sullivan, who owned the property, and later rented over two hundred acres of it, where he has lived for more than twenty years.  Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have four children: Mary, Dennis, Jerry, and Dan.  They have also lost one daughter, who died in infancy.

Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888. p.  639

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler