Santa Clara County Biographies


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DANIEL MURPHY
 
settled on with his father on the ranch at the Twenty-one Mile House.  He, with 
his brother Bernard, bought other property, and at the time of his death he 
owned large landed estates in California, Nevada, and Mexico.  His rancho in 
Durango comprised some million and a half acres, and included the mountain of 
magnetic iron made famous by the report of Alex. Von Humboldt.  He devoted 
nearly his entire life to the cattle business, his herds numbering thousands of 
head. He died October 22, 1882.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888. p. 56
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler