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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
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