“Bought 2 Horses & a Wagon:” The Story of the Murphy Companies

This is the story of how E. L. Murphy Sr. established his business, gradually converted it from horses to trucks, suffered through the takeover of Murphy Transfer and Storage Company and Murphy Motor Freight Lines by a St. Paul bank in the midst of the Great Depression, and how brothers Edward L. Murphy Jr. and Richard T. Murphy Sr. regained control of the family business and rebuilt it for future growth. Acclaimed Minnesota historian Virginia Brainard Kunz tells how the Murphy Companies dealt with all the changes wrought by World War II, federal deregulation of the trucking industry in the 1970s and ’80s, and today’s growing demand for quality warehousing and rigging services in a highly competitive marketplace.

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