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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 240 items) |
Abstract | Patrick Livingston Murphy (1848-1907) was a white physician and superintendent of the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton, N.C. The collection includes professional and personal correspondence, chiefly 1880-1907, pertaining to Murphy's medical career. Also included are Murphy's fee book, Morganton, N.C., 1875-1876; two scrapbooks, 1882-1913, about the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton; a few family items; addresses by Murphy on care for the mentally ill in the South; bills of sale of slaves to John Bumgardner of Greenville, Va.,1824-1846; and other papers. |
Creator | Murphy, Patrick Livingston, 1848-1907. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2009; Patrick Cullom, September 2019
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Patrick Livingston Murphy (1848-1907) was a white physician and superintendent of the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton, N.C. He was married to Bettie W. Bumgardner.
Back to TopThe collection includes professional and personal correspondence, chiefly 1880-1907, of Patrick Livingston Murphy pertaining to his medical career. Also included are Murphy's fee book, Morganton, N.C., 1875-1876; two scrapbooks, 1882-1913, about the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane at Morganton; a genealogical items; addresses by Murphy on care for the mentally ill in the South; photographs of Murphy, his ancestors, and the hospital; bills of sale of slaves to John Bumgardner of Greenville, Va., 1824-1846; and other papers.
Notable correspondents include Richard Henry Battle, S. A. White, John Fulenwider Miller, J. M. Buchanan, J. P. Caldwell Josephus Daniels, Samuel A. Ashe, Joseph A. Waddell, Thomas Ruffin, Andrew W. Knox, Robert Broadnax Glenn, Julian S. Carr, Julian Meredith Baker, Benjamin Rice Lacy, J. G. Hall, Paul B. Barringer, and Richmond Pearson.
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