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Dr. William J. Murphy, physician and surgeon of Milwaukee, with offices in the Matthews building at 307 Grand avenue, is a native son of this city, his birth having here occurred April 3, 1886. His father, William J. Murphy, Sr., is now living retired here at the age of sixty-nine years. He, too, was born in Milwaukee, while his father was a native of Ireland and became the founder of the family in the new world. The mother of Dr. Murphy is also living and has now attained the age of sixty-four. She bore the maiden name of Mary Haley and is well known in this city, in which she has spent her life. By her marriage she became the mother of three living children: Owen D., who is an accountant; Mrs. William J. McLaughlin of Milwaukee; and William J., of this review. The father has been quite prominent in public affairs of the city and served for eighteen years on the Milwaukee board of aldermen, exercising his official prerogatives in support of many plans and measures for the general good.

Dr. Murphy, like his parents, has spent his life in Milwaukee and in 1905 was graduated from the East Side high school. Later he was for four years a student in the Marquette Medical College and was graduated with the M. D. degree in the class of 1909. He afterward became an interne in the City Hospital and was on Blackwell's Island, New York, in his professional capacity for fourteen months. Subsequently he spent two years and four months as a physician in the service of the United States government, being stationed at the National Soldiers Home in Dayton, Ohio, for four months, and at Leavenworth, Kansas, for two years. Since 1912 he has practiced medicine and surgery in Milwaukee, occupying throughput the period his present offices in the Matthews building. He is serving on the staffs of Trinity and Misericordia Hospitals and he belongs to the Milwaukee County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. During the World war he Joined the Medical Corps and served for nine months as a lieutenant and captain at Camp Greenleaf, Georgia, and at Newport News, Virginia. He has ever been ready to respond to any call of duty in connection with his country or in the line of his profession and has made his service of great benefit to his fellowmen.

In religious faith Dr. Murphy is a Roman Catholic and he belongs to the Knights of Columbus. He also has membership with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and he finds his recreation through the summer seasons in hunting and fishing, greatly enjoying a trip into the wilds. His professional career as well as his personal characteristics commend him to the confidence and respect of his fellowmen and he has an extensive circle of warm friends in his native city.