Mcmurphy, Jesse G
clergyman, college president, author, poet, was born April 8, 1845, in Derry, N. H. He graduated from the Dartmouth college in 1868; and in 1873 from the Theological seminary of Nashotah, Wis. He is an eminent clergyman, and founder of the McMurphy Home school of Racine, Wis. He is a wellknown writer and translator of verse in several languages; and his writings appear in numerous standard collections. He married Mary Lucy James in 1870, and resides with his family at the homestead in Derry, N. H.