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  DR. SAMUEL MURDOCK, Sabetha, Kans., was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, Aug. 6, 1841, and is a son of Ezekiel P. (born Mar. 10, 1809, died Feb. 11, 1907), and Rachel (Taylor) Murdock, (born Jan. 29, 1814, died Aug. 22, 1885).  Ezekiel Murdock was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Ephraim Murdock, a native of Scotland.  Ezekiel P. Murdock and Rachel Taylor were married in Dearborn county, Indiana, Jan. 29, 1835, and this union was blessed with children, as follows:  David L., born in Butler county, Ohio, and died at Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 27, 1903; Mary Ann, born in Dearborn county, Indiana, in 1838, died Mar. 11, 1903; Samuel and Elizabeth, (twins), of whom Elizabeth died Feb. 16, 1883; Jacob T., born Jan. 11, 1844, became a lawyer, and died at Streator, Ill., Dec. 23, 1912; Ezekiel P., born Dec. 15, 1845, and became a physician; Nancy Jane, born Nov. 24, 1847; George L., born June 20, 1851, died Sept. 15, 1886.  There were three lawyers in this family, of whom Ezekiel P. Murdock, of Chicago, Ill., was first a lawyer, and then became a physician, and is widely known as a scientist, writer and skilled physician, located in Chicago for the past forty years.  The mother of these children was born in Knoxville, Tenn.  David L. and J. T. were also lawyers.  D. L. was judge on the bench of San Diego, Cal., but died in Kansas City, Mo.
     Ezekiel P. Murdock, father of Dr. Murdock, was admitted to the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, and first practiced his profession in Dearborn county, Indiana, where he lived until 1854, and then located at Hennepin, Putnam county, Illinois.  In 1859, he located in Lewis county, Missouri, and there followed farming.  After his wife's death, he removed to Streator, Ill., where his demise occurred.
     Dr. Samuel Murdock was educated in the public schools, and holds a diploma as Master of Arts from Chaddock College, Quincy, Ill., in 1870.  In 1876,  he graduated from the Physicians and Surgeons College at Keokuk, Iowa.  In the meantime, he had completed a commercial course at Bryant and Stratton's Business College in Quincy, Ill., and practically made his own way through college from the time he was seventeen years old.  Dr. Murdock is proud of the fact that his professional education was secured mainly through his own efforts, without any outside aid.
     He enlisted in Company I, Forty-seventh Illinois infantry, in 1861, and served for two years in the Union army, was wounded in the left shoulder at Corinth, Miss., and received his honorable discharge from the service.  He fought in the following great battles: Farmington, Mass.; the skirmish lines at Shiloh and Corinth.  During the period in which he was attaining his professional education, he taught school when not attending school, and practiced at Kahoka, Mo., for a number of years, and served eight years as pension surgeon and medical examiner at Kahoka.  Dr. Murdock located at Oneida, Kans., in 1883, and practiced in that city continuously until Nov. of 1905, when he came to Sabetha, Kans.
     Dr. Murdock was married at Monticello, Mo., Jan. 1, 1871, to Martha h. Green, while he was teaching at the Monticello Seminary, Monticello.  Mrs. Murdock was born in Switzerland county, Indiana., Jan. 29, 1839, and died Nov. 4, 1905.  She was a daughter of Moses Green, who was a settler in Lewis county, Missouri, and became a prominent citizen of that county.  Mrs. Murdock, mother of Dr. Murdock, was also a niece of Gen. Zachary Taylor.  Three children blessed this union of Samuel and Martha Murdock, namely:  Amy, died at Chaddock, Dec. 4, 1879; Oscar, died in infancy; Dr. Samuel Murdock, Jr., Sabetha, Kans., a review of whose life career is given in this volume.
     Dr. Murdock is a member of the County, State and American Medical Associations, and was one of the organizers of the Nemaha County Medical Society.  He is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the Congregational church.  Dr. Murdock is affiliated with the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and is a thirty-second degree Mason.  He is a member of the Grand Army Post at Sabetha, Kans., and in 1915, he delivered the memorial day address at Sabetha.  He makes addresses occasionally, and is a forceful and interesting speaker.  For some years, he was a contributor to the "Medical Courier," of St. Louis, Mo.  Unlike many professional medical practitioners, he has made provisions for his declining years, and is one of the well-to-do citizens of the county.  He still practices medicine and attends to surgical cases at the Sabetha Hospital, when his son is away on business, and can thread a surgical needle as accurately and quickly as a younger man.  During his long years of practice, Dr. Murdock treated the sick and ailing whether poor or rich, the financial condition of his patients making no difference in his attentions and care.  He made a practice of treating the families of poor widows free of charge.  For all of his years, he is active as ever, shrewd, strong and mentally active, and during his life he has always been a total abstainer from alcoholic drinks, and attributes his excellent health and undiminished powers of body and mind to this fact in a great measure.
Source:  History of Nemaha County, Kansas by Ralph Tennal - Illustrated - Publ. Standard Publishing Company, Lawrence, Kansas - 1916 - Page 426

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