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MURPHY, L. C. manufacturer of stone ware for the past six years, at White Hall. Was born at Utica, New York State, July 12, 1846. When but four years old his parents moved to Chicago, and from there to Sheffield, Bureau County. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Road had then been completed but one year, and but very little improvements had taken place in the county. The family afterward moved to Galva, Henry County, where he died. In his sixteenth year, the subject of this sketch was attending the High School at Galesburg; this was in 1860; one year later he enlisted as a soldier in Co. H, 65th Ill. Inf.; he remained with the regiment three years, and became a sergeant-major; captured at Harper’s Ferry; he was sent to Chicago, thence to East Tennessee; a participant in the siege of Knoxville; with Sherman from Kingston to beyond Atlanta; engaged in nearly all the principal battles of the war; honorably discharged in 1865; he returned to Galva, where he became a railroad contractor; in 1873 he came to White Hall as a permanent resident, entering into the manufacture of pottery ware with Charles B. Ebey, afterward admitting as a partner E. M. Bates, who retired two years ago, September, 1872. Mr. Murphy was married to Miss Anna Ebey; three children—Harry, Nettie, and Gertrude.