Ramsey County History – Spring 1969: “Forgotten Pioneers: Dr. John H. Murphy”

Forgotten Pioneers: Dr. John H. Murphy

Dr. John Henry Murphy (1826–1894) was “virtually the first formally trained doctor to settle in what is now the Twin Cities.” He and wife, Adelaide, the daughter of Ramsey County pioneer Benjamin Hoyt, settled in St. Anthony in 1849. He served in the territorial and state legislatures, as a regimental surgeon in the Civil War and in the West, as president of the St. Paul School Board, as physician to the Ramsey County Poor Farm, as state surgeon general, and vice president of the American Medical Association.
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