- FLOYD D. MURDOCK is yet living at the place where he was
born, Sept. 13, 1856, at the
- corner of Wall and Franklin streets, Janesville, Rock County,
where he has built a magnificent row of flats. Both his grandfather
and father were born in New York as were also his mother and
her parents. His paternal grandfather, who was a farmer, died
in his native State at an advances age, leaving a large family.
- Edwin MURDOCK, the father of Floyd D., settled in Janesville
in the 'forties', and engaged in
- business as a grain dealer and grocer, following these lines
until his death, at the age of fifty-seven, in 1883. He was
a citizen of prominence, and for several years represented the
First ward in the city council. He married Adelia HOYT, whose
father, Charles HOYT, was likewise a New York farmer, but removed
to Wisconsin, and was one of the early settlers of Rock County.
Later he removed to Iowa, and died there in his seventy-sixth
year. Mrs. Edwin MURDOCK is still living; she is a devout Baptist.
She bore her husband four children: Ida, now the wife of Myron
CLARK, of Rock County; Floyd D.; Edwin H., of Janesville; and
Jessie, Mrs. Thomas A. NOLAN.
- Floyd D. MURDOCK has passed his life in the city of his birth.
After leaving school he began
- working for his father, and on the latter's death succeeded
to the ownership and management of the business. He has been
successful, bringing to bear upon his undertakings sound common
sense, as well as reflective power and sagacity. He sells hay
and feed, as well as grain, shipping a great deal to Chicago
and Milwaukee, and carries on an extensive and remunerative trade,
enjoying the confidence and respect of the entire community,
and the sincere esteem of a wide circle of personal friends.
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and of the A.O.U.W.,
and in politics is a Republican. On Dec. 6, 1883, Mr. MURDOCK
married Maggie Josepha INMAN, and they have two children, Floyd
Verne and Edna Floydine.
- Mrs. MURDOCK comes of English lineage on the paternal, and
French on the maternal side.
- Her father's ancestors crossed the Atlantic in the "Mayflower,"
and her great-grandfather, Edward INMAN, served under Washington
in the Revolutionary war, holding the rank of colonel. Her grandfather
was John E. INMAN. The family were long-time residents of Pennsylvania,
John E. INMAN being a large land owner near Wilkesbarre. After
disposing of his holdings there he came West, buying large tracts
in Illinois and Wisconsin, and making his home in Carroll County,
Ill. He was the father of five sons and three daughters, and
lived to celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. Edward INMAN,
Mrs. MURDOCK's father, was for several years a conductor in the
employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., but the fracture of
a leg compelled him to seek other employment. For a long time
he conducted a dry-goods store at Wilkesbarre, but subsequently
(in 1857) removed to Wisconsin, settling in Bradford, where he
died in 1892, at the age of sixty-nine years. His widow yet
survives, and has her home in Janesville. Her name before marriage
was Margaret J. MUTCHLAR, and her father (the maternal grandfather
of Mrs. MURDOCK) married Margaret SAN TEE. Both were of French
descent, but residents of Wilkesbarre, where Mr. MUTCHLAR was
a successful coal operator. They were the parents of four daughters
and one son.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 131.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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