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Murphy, John Albert

clergyman, poet, was born Jan. 24, 1837, in Rich Fork, N. C. He received his education at the Catawba college, N. C., from which institution he received his degree of D. D.; and the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Trinity college. In 1857 he joined the St. Louis conference of the methodist episcopal church south; and in 1879 was transferred to the northwest Texas conference. painter, was born Dec. 11, 1853, in Oswego, N. Y. In 1885 he received the second Hallgarten prize for his painting Tints of a Vanished Past, and he took the Webb prize at the Society of American Artists in 1887. His works include Sunny Slopes; Upland Cornfield; October; Late Afternoon; April Weather; Woodland; The Yellow Leaf; Indian Summer; Sundown; and Brooks and Fields.