Background
Murphy, Eva Morley was born on November 22, 1856 in McDonough Company, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William and Orpha Amelia (Hibbard) Morley.
Murphy, Eva Morley was born on November 22, 1856 in McDonough Company, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William and Orpha Amelia (Hibbard) Morley.
Edward high school.
Sidney Thompson). Teacher public schools 5 years. Active temperance worker 20 years. Organizer and lecturer in campaign which won equal suffrage for women in Kansas, 1912.
Progressive Party candidate for Congress, 6th Kansas District, 1914 (first woman nominated for Congress in the United States).
Trustee Goodland Public Library. District chairman and active worker in Liberty Loan campaign, 1917-1918.
Recording secretary Kansas Women's Christian Temperance Union, 1911-1917. Director Kansas History Society.
Clubs: Goodland Athena (president 1908-1910).
Married Eugene Franklin Murphy, of Cambridge, Illinois, December 20, 1877. Children: Elizabeth (deceased), Maude (Mistress Maude Aten), Lois Amelia (Mistress Robt.