Patrick "Pat" J. Murphy

1885 Stutsman County (Jamestown ND) census — Murphy cluster: Patrick (26, Bartender, Ireland), James (27, Laborer, Ireland), Daniel (28, Bartender, Ireland)

Full Stutsman County 1885 Dakota-Territory census in xlsx form, with pivot-table summary sheets by occupation/age + a Master sheet listing each individual. ## CRITICAL FAMILY-IDENTIFICATION FINDING Three Murphy adults in Jamestown 1885 — ALL Ireland-born, all bartender/laborer trades: | # | ED | Name | Age | Occupation | Nativity | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | 515 | 44-011-15 | **Murphy, Patrick** | **26** | **Bartender** | Ireland | | 129 | 44-003-29 | **Murphy, James** | 27 | Laborer | Ireland | | 500 | 44-010-50 | **Murphy, Daniel** ("Danl") | 28 | Bartender | Ireland | All three in Jamestown city; all under separate enumeration districts (ED 11, 3, 10 respectively). **PATRICK MURPHY (= PJM the bartender)**: age 26 in 1885 → born ~1859, matches PJM's 1908 self-stated age 50 (b. ~1858), 1912 obit age 53 (b. ~1859), and the asylum form age 52 (b. ~1856). Ireland-born Bartender by 1885 already — the bartender career predates Butte. This is the SAME Patrick Murphy who filed the Stutsman County Declaration of Intent to Naturalize on 4 Nov 1884 (the existing archive's 1884-11-04 declaration record). Patrick was in Jamestown 1884 (declared intent) and 1885 (census) before his 1887-1888 move to Butte (per his 1908 Butte Daily Post testimony "came to Montana 20 years ago" + the 1912 obit's "resident of this city for 25 years"). **JAMES MURPHY (age 27, Laborer)** — POSSIBLY PJM's BROTHER. Close in age (b. ~1858), Ireland-born, same city. Could plausibly be the brother PJM "left in Ireland" per the 1908 asylum clinical notes — OR a separate James Murphy unrelated. Per PJM's clinical notes' "remembers little of family, says he left them in Ireland," it's possible James was a brother who later joined him in America. Held at family confidence 50 pending corroboration. **DANIEL MURPHY (age 28, Bartender)** — POSSIBLY PJM's BROTHER. Same age range (b. ~1857), Ireland-born, same trade (bartender). Could be a brother and the source of the family naming-pattern for PJM's son Daniel L. Murphy (b. ~1893 Butte). Or a separate Daniel Murphy. Held at family confidence 50 pending corroboration. **NO ELLEN MURPHY** in the 1885 census — Patrick was apparently in Jamestown alone in 1885. Consistent with the family reconstruction: Patrick m. Ellen Lyne 13 Feb 1881 Kilcatherine → eldest son James b. 1883 in Ireland → Patrick emigrated alone 1883-1884 → Ellen + infant James joined later (probably 1886-1887) → family moved to Butte ~1888. No "Lyne / Lyon" entries match a known family Lyne in Jamestown 1885 either (the visible Lyons are NY/IL/Wisconsin-born American natives, not Irish Lynes). ## OCCUPATION CONTEXT (peripheral) The 1885 census shows the typical small-frontier-city Jamestown occupation mix: 61 Carpenters, 42 Clerks, 16 Bartenders, 16 Attorneys, 14 Cooks, 12 Boardinghouse keepers, 10 Barbers, 10 Blacksmiths, 10 Butchers, plus tradesmen (Bookbinder, Brewer, Bricklayer, etc.). Patrick + Daniel were 2 of the 16 city Bartenders — a respectable trade in 1885 Jamestown. ## BROADER USE This xlsx is a research-grade primary source covering 2380+ Jamestown individuals. Beyond the Murphy cluster, it's a Beara-and-Irish-emigrant cross-reference database for the Jamestown phase of the family arc (1883-1888 Murphy-in- Jamestown era + the parallel 1883-1898 Klaus-Vennum-Murphy Jamestown cohort).

1900 Butte/Silver Bow School Census — Murphy Pat (James 17, David 7, Teresa 3) household confirmed

Single typed page from the 1900 Butte / Silver Bow County school census (held at the BSBA = Butte-Silver Bow Archives). Lists ~30 Butte households whose surnames cluster M (McKivitt, McBride, Meade, McAuliff, Martin, Murphy, Maguire, Mitchell, McKenzie, McGarry, Murray, Mullins, Matheson, McKenna, McGraw) with each household's school-aged children + age + sex + "Not Attending School Occupation" column. ## CRITICAL FAMILY-IDENTIFICATION FINDING **Second "Murphy Pat" entry on the page** (highlighted in the source by the user with a marginal bracket) matches the PJM-Ellen family exactly: | Child | Age | Sex | Occupation if not in school | |---|---|---|---| | **James** | 17 | M | **Clerk** | | **David** | 7 | M | (in school) | | **Teresa** | 3 | F | (under school age) | Cross-references: - **James** = James Joseph Murphy (= JJM, b. 1883 Ardgroom Cork; in 1900 age 17 ✓; Hennessy clerk per CLAUDE.md ✓) - **David** = **Daniel L. Murphy** (David is most plausibly a misread or hypocoristic for Daniel; existing archive's Daniel L. Murphy b. ~1893 → age 7 in 1900 ✓; OR a separate sibling David Murphy not previously documented) - **Teresa** = Theresa Murphy (b. ~1897 → age 3 in 1900 ✓; existing archive's Theresa) All three are the surviving children referenced in PJM's 1908 asylum clinical notes ("8 children, only 3 living"). The 1900 census CONFIRMS this 3-living count: there were exactly three Murphy children in the Pat-Ellen household in 1900 (matching the 1912 PJM obit's surviving-children list). **James as a Clerk at age 17 in 1900** — corroborates the CLAUDE.md framework's "Hennessy cash boy 1898 → boys'-dept head ~1904 → store superintendent June 1915 → Centerville branch manager 1915-1920" career arc for JJM-Centerville. By 1900, JJM was 17 and listed as a Clerk in the census. ## ALSO ON THE PAGE: a DIFFERENT "Murphy Pat" household The FIRST "Murphy Pat" entry on the same page: - William Murphy, age 11 - Pat Murphy Jr., age 4 This is a SEPARATE Pat Murphy of Butte in 1900 with sons William (b.~1889) and Pat Jr (b.~1896). Not the family-PJM. Confirms that the namesake-Pat-Murphys-of-Butte pattern was alive and confusing already in 1900. ## SIGNIFICANCE 1. CORROBORATES the family's three-living-children composition in 1900 (James, David/Daniel, Teresa). 2. CONFIRMS JJM (= the future James J. Murphy of LA, d. 1938) at age 17 in 1900 already employed as a Clerk (= Hennessy's clerk position per the CLAUDE.md framework). 3. PROVIDES a probable 1893 birth year for Daniel L. Murphy (age 7 in 1900). Adds vital data on the second-born surviving son. 4. DOCUMENTS a separate Butte "Murphy Pat" with sons William + Pat Jr — relevant for the discriminator framework when bare "Pat Murphy" appears in later 1900s Butte clippings. ## OTHER HOUSEHOLDS ON PAGE (peripheral) See `mentioned:` for the full list of surnames and notable children (McGraw J.H. with 7+ children including baby Eveline 3 months; McBride Barney with adult-aged Joseph, Lizzie, Kate; etc.). The McBride/McAuliff/Maguire/Mitchell cluster represents the broader Butte Irish-American school community PJM's children grew up alongside.

Same moment, also reported in: 1908-01-07 — The Butte Daily Post, p.6; 1908-01-08 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9; 1908-01-08 — The Butte Miner, p.12

PATRICK J. MURPHY IS FOUND INSANE

Single short news item. Patrick J. Murphy, aged 52, a native of County Cork, Ireland, residing at 120 West Quartz street, was found insane by Drs. Horst and Turner this morning and ordered committed to the insane asylum at Warm Springs by Judge Donlan this morning. Sub-heads: "BARTENDER COMMITTED TO INSANE ASYLUM BY COMMISSION. / HE IS GIVEN TO BAD SPELLS. / Wife and Three Children in Danger From Him." Anchor clipping for the "bartender PJM insanity" cluster (six related clippings in this Stage 6 ingest: this commitment, the "well-known bartender" sister-paper coverage same day, an Ellen-and-Maggie defence ("sick not insane"), a "burden to the family / raging drunk", a State Asylum disposition, and a poor-farm follow-up). All six concern this same Patrick J. Murphy of 120 W. Quartz st., a 52-year-old Cork-born bartender. Identity question for person_patrick_j_murphy_butte_aoh: the existing AOH-active Patrick J. Murphy (1889 Reception Committee, 1900 Ward 1 Democratic delegate) shares the name and middle initial. Two-records rule applies: holding this 1908 bartender as a separate record (person_patrick_j_murphy_ bartender_1908) but noting the possible identification.

Same moment, also reported in: 1908-03-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9; 1908-03-24 — The Butte Miner, p.6

PATRICK MURPHY DEAD.

Death notice. Patrick Murphy, a native of Ireland, 53 years of age, died last night (Tuesday 23 April 1912) at the family residence, 3 West Agate street, Butte. Resident of Butte for 25 years (came c. 1887). Survived by: wife (unnamed), two sons James and Daniel, a daughter Theresa, and a sister Miss Margaret Murphy — all of Butte. Funeral Friday morning at 9:00 from St. Patrick's church, requiem high mass. CRITICAL CONSOLIDATION. This Patrick Murphy is THE SAME PERSON as person_patrick_j_murphy_bartender_1908. Three independent matches: (1) age — bartender Pat was 50 in Jan 1908, would be ~54 in April 1912; this deceased was 53; within margin of bartender-reported-age error. (2) Native of Ireland / Cork — matches. (3) Wife and three children — bartender Pat had wife and three children; this man's survivors are wife, two sons, one daughter (= three children). (4) Sister Miss Margaret Murphy matches the Maggie Murphy who testified at the 1908 hearings. (5) The unnamed wife of THIS Patrick is the same Ellen Murphy who survives until 1935 (see Ellen-Murphy 1935 cluster): her obituary names her surviving sons as James (LA) and Dan (Butte) and daughter Theresa (Seattle) — the SAME three children's names. (6) The address has moved from 120 W. Quartz st. (1908) to 3 W. Agate st. (1912) — consistent with a household reset after Pat's 1908-09 asylum / poor-farm period. This clipping is the bridge that consolidates the previously separate person_patrick_j_murphy_bartender_1908 and the implicit husband of person_ellen_murphy_fox_hotel_1935 into the same human being.

Luke Murphy's Murphy Family Research deck — Ancestry-tree summary cards for great-great-grandparents back through 3rd-great-grandparent generation

The user's own self-prepared family-research PowerPoint containing Ancestry.com tree screenshots (summary card per ancestor) for the documented direct family back through the 3rd-great-grandparent generation. Crystallizes the Ancestry-tree authoritative vital data for each ancestor. ## SLIDE-BY-SLIDE CONTENTS ### Slide 1: Title — "Murphy Family Research" by Luke Murphy (lukedmurphy@gmail.com, 925-408-1882) ### Slide 2: PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS (per user's Ancestry tree) - **James Joseph Murphy** (paternal grandfather) - BIRTH: 20 MAR 1914, Butte, Montana, USA - DEATH: 27 JANUARY 1972, La Mesa, San Diego County, California - **Agnes Bridget Kelly** (great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 29 JUN 1887, Walkerville, Montana - DEATH: JAN 12, 1967, Anaheim, Orange, California CRITICAL: Confirms **JJM Jr** as the user's **PATERNAL GRANDFATHER** (not great-grandfather as I had inferred from the existing GEDCOM-derived memory). This means: - User's father = one of JJM Jr's 6 children (Michelle, Marty, Chris, Melda, Maureen, **Dan**) - Per existing memory + 2012 Marie Murphy obit, Dan Murphy ("Dan (Jan) Murphy") is the youngest of the 6. Most plausibly Dan = the user's FATHER (not grandfather). - The existing memory entry assuming Dan = user's grandfather was WRONG. To be corrected. Also confirms: **Agnes Bridget Kelly** (b. 29 Jun 1887 Walkerville, d. 12 Jan 1967 Anaheim) is the user's great-grandmother — wife of JJM Sr (LA-d 1938). This is the SAME Agnes Kelly of the 1908-10-19 Kelly-Murphy wedding at St. Lawrence church Butte. Pins down JJM Jr's death day at **27 January 1972** (previously the archive only had year-only "1972"). ### Slide 3: PJM-LYNE LINE - **Patrick J. Murphy** (2nd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: 4 APR 1858, County Cork, Ireland - DEATH: 23 APR 1912, Warm Springs, Deer Lodge, MT - Photo accompanying: the "PATRICK J. MURPHY IS FOUND INSANE" clipping headline - **Ellen Lyne Murphy** (2nd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 15 NOVEMBER 1861, Ardgroom, County Cork, Ireland - DEATH: 23 AUGUST 1935, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT - **Myles "Mark" Lyne** (3rd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: ABT 1791, Ireland - DEATH: JUN 1872, Castletown Bearhaven, Cork, Ireland - **Margreta O'Shea** (3rd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 7 MAY 1839, Eyeries, Cork, Ireland - DEATH: MAR 1894, Skull, Ireland CRITICAL: Confirms PJM's authoritative birth date as **4 April 1858** (= aligning with the 1908 Butte Daily Post age 50; not the asylum form's age 52 / b.~1856). Also confirms Ellen's exact birth date **15 November 1861** (Ardgroom Cork). Confirms Myles "Mark" Lyne (b. ~1791, d. JUN 1872 Castletown Bearhaven) as the SAME person whose 1872 Kilcatherine RD death cert is in the archive (1872-05-10 — minor discrepancy of day; the Ancestry "JUN 1872" might be approximate; the cert's "10 May 1872" is the authoritative day). Confirms Margaret O'Shea/Shea (b. 7 May 1839 Eyeries, d. MAR 1894 Schull) as Myles's wife — same person as the 1865 Lyne-Shea marriage cert's Margaret Shea-alias-Sullivan widow. WAIT: the 1865 cert had Myles as a WIDOWER and Margaret Shea as a WIDOW (previously m. John Sullivan 1855). If Margaret was b. 1839 + widowed by 1865 (age 26), her first husband John Sullivan must have died young (within 10 years of their 1855 marriage when she was 16 and he was likely 20s+). Margaret then m. Myles Lyne 1865 (he 74, she 26 = a 48-year age gap). Their child Ellen Lyne Murphy b. 1861 — BEFORE the 1865 marriage. So Ellen could be: (a) A daughter of Margaret's prior marriage to John Sullivan (would be Ellen SULLIVAN by birth) — but the existing 1881 marriage cert + 1883 baptism cert call her Ellen LYNE, suggesting she's Myles's biological daughter (b) A daughter of Myles's prior marriage (Myles was a widower in 1865) — Ellen's actual mother (Myles's first wife) predeceased 1865 (c) Born to Margaret + Myles out of wedlock and legitimized by the 1865 marriage (less plausible in a 19th-century Catholic Beara village) Most plausibly (b) — Ellen was Myles's daughter by his first wife (predeceased 1865), and Margaret O'Shea was Ellen's stepmother. The Ancestry tree's "Margreta O'Shea" label as Ellen's "mother" may be a stepmother / second- marriage tree-completion choice. ### Slide 4: KELLY + CHATHAM LINE (user's great-great-grandparents on the JJM-Sr's-wife's side) - **Mary Chatham Kelly** (2nd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: 11 DEC 1861, Hancock, Houghton, Michigan, USA - DEATH: 28 MAY 1940, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California - **John Kelly** (2nd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: JUN 1854, County Claire [Clare], Ireland - DEATH: 21 JUN 1914, Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, USA - **John A. Chatham** (3rd great-grandfather) - BIRTH: 16 DEC 1829, Avoca, Wicklow, Ireland - DEATH: 1901, Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, USA - **Catherine Ryan Chatham** (3rd great-grandmother) - BIRTH: MAY 1835, Tipperary, Ireland - DEATH: 5 OCT 1912, Butte, Silver Bow County, MT - **Catherine "Kate" Chatham Maloughney** (3rd great-aunt) - BIRTH: OCT 1857, Michigan - DEATH: 20 APR 1916, Walkerville, Silver Bow County, MT CONFIRMS: **Catherine Kate Chatham Maloughney** = Mary Chatham Kelly's sister (per the user's tree) = the same Catherine of the 1916-04-21 Anaconda Standard obit (which the archive holds). The user's tree marks her as "3rd great-aunt" — sister of Mary Chatham Kelly (his 2nd great-grandmother). Pins down: **John A. Chatham** (1829 Avoca → 1901 Butte) + **Catherine Ryan Chatham** (1835 Tipperary → 1912 Butte) = user's 3rd-great-grandparents on the Chatham line. ## FRAMEWORK CONSEQUENCES 1. **B (1927-d JJM at 79 Missoula avenue) is a DIFFERENT James J. Murphy from JJM Sr** (= the user's great-grandfather, A=C per existing merge memory). CLAUDE.md's three-James framework needs revision: - **JJM (= A=C = user's great-grandfather)**: b. 4 Apr 1858? NO wait — that's PJM. JJM = the SON of PJM = b. 1883 Beara, d. 1938 LA. He's the Hennessy-Centerville-AOH JJM AND the LA-d-1938 JJM (per the A=C merge memory). Married Agnes Bridget Kelly (b. 1887 Walkerville → d. 1967 Anaheim) on 19 Oct 1908 St. Lawrence church Butte. 5+ children: Agnes, Eileen, James Jr, Imelda, Joan, Frances. - **1927-d JJM** = separate person (with 6 sons Vincent/Francis/Emmet/James/Paul/William and wife also named Agnes Kelly). Two Agnes Kelly Murphys in Butte. Need to disambiguate in CLAUDE.md. 2. **The user's lineage to PJM is**: - User (b. ~1980s-90s) - Father = Dan Murphy (b. ~1954, JJM Jr's youngest) - Grandfather = JJM Jr (b. 20 Mar 1914 Butte, d. 27 Jan 1972 La Mesa) - Great-grandfather = JJM Sr / "James Joseph Murphy" (b. 1883 Ardgroom Cork, d. 1938 LA, = candidate C per CLAUDE.md = A=C per merge) - Great-grandmother = Agnes Bridget Kelly (b. 1887 Walkerville, d. 1967 Anaheim) - Great-great-grandfather = PJM Patrick J. Murphy (b. 4 Apr 1858 Cork, d. 23 Apr 1912 Warm Springs) - Great-great-grandmother = Ellen Lyne Murphy (b. 15 Nov 1861 Ardgroom, d. 23 Aug 1935 Butte) - 3rd-great-grandfather = Myles "Mark" Lyne (b. ~1791, d. JUN 1872 Castletown Bearhaven) - 3rd-great-grandmother = Margreta O'Shea (b. 7 May 1839 Eyeries, d. Mar 1894 Schull) — **Ellen's biological mother** per user confirmation 2026-05-27. The Ellen-b-1861 vs 1865-Lyne-Shea-marriage date puzzle is open (most likely the 1861 census birth year is unreliable, OR an unrecorded earlier union) - On JJM-Sr's-wife side: John A. Chatham 1829 + Catherine Ryan 1835 → Mary Chatham 1861 → m. John Kelly 1854 → Agnes Bridget Kelly 1887 → m. JJM Sr → JJM Jr → Dan → user 3. The existing CLAUDE.md framework's three-James-Murphys- in-Butte cluster needs an update: A=C is one person (the family JJM, b. 1883 Ardgroom); B is a separate 1927-d Butte James J. Murphy + Agnes Kelly couple.

Same moment, also reported in: 2026-05-11 — Email correspondence — Oliver Murphy (Beara-side researcher) to Luke Murphy (user)