Sacramento County Biographies

P. H. MURPHY

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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BRIGHTON TOWNSHIP
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	Post Office, Brighton; lives six miles from Sacramento, on the 
Jackson road; was born in Missouri, in 1838, and lived there until 1854; in that 
year he came to California, across the plains, and settled at Brighton, where he 
engaged in farming and selling agricultural implements; he is now engaged in 
raising small fruits; has twelve acres set out in strawberries; his brand or 
mark is Brighton Vineyard; owns two hundred and forty acres, worth, with 
improvements, about $17,000. He made a trip East in 1861, and returned the year 
following; he was married that same year (1862) to Miss Mary A. Gibbs, a native 
of Ohio; she died in 1874. He was married again in 1876, to Miss Carrie R. 
Jackman, a native of New Hampshire; he has living four sons and two daughters. 
Mr. Murphy was shot in his cabin, by two negroes, in 1858; they were afterwards 
caught and sent to the Penitentiary for fourteen years. He has held the offices 
of Constable and Justice of the Peace; came near losing his life while 
Constable. In 1878 he took some of his fruit to St. Louis, to the State Fair. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.