Person

William Murphy (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, watchman and city marshal)

b. 1833?

Lexington, Kentucky, watchman and marshal. Virginia native. Son of Mary Murphy. City watchman in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860. City marshal in Lexington in 1864.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 384.

Williams & Co., Williams' Lexington City Directory, for 1864-5, (Lexington, KY, 1864), 74.

Citation

Murphy, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211193 (November 12, 2026).

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