Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1918 — COMMANDER A RETIRED MINISTER [ARTICLE]

COMMANDER A RETIRED MINISTER

Alonzo Murphy, who was elected department commander of the Indiana G. A. R. at Logansport Friday, is a retired Methodist minister of Greensburg. Mr. Murphy was born in Switzerland county and served in the famous Persimmon brigade in the civil war as a member of the 117th Indiana regiment. Soon after the war closed he entered Moores Hill conference and for thirty years was an active and successful minister, holding several charges in Indiana. He retired twenty years ago* and has lived in Greensburg since.