People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — HE IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

HE IS DEAD.

-Kx-Congre*stnau Murphy, of lovra, Passe* Away at Washington. Washington, Dec. 18.—Ex-Congress-•rman Jerry Murphy, of Davenport, la., klied here Monday morning a few minutes after midnight, but his death was 'not unexpected. He came here front jlowa about three mouths ago and ■was soon after taken ill with dropsy, and continued to grow worse till the end came. Mr. Murphy’s identification with the Hennepin canal scheme gave him a reputation all over the world, and from the time he entered congress, about'twelve years ago, until his late illness he has been the ablest and most persistent advocate of that enterprise. {Mf. Murphy was born at Lowell, Mass., February 19, 1835. He was educated in the •schools Of Boston and the University of lowa, to which siate his parents moved before he had reached his majority. He studied law and was admitted to practice in !1858, and he had practiced the profession .ever since. In 1873 he was elected mayor of Davenport as a democrat and two years later 'became a member of tho state senate, holding ’the office four years. He was again elected mayor in 1879. He was elected to the Fortyeighth congress, defeating S. S. Farwell, and •was reelected to the Forty-ninth congress.!