Starr J. Murphy

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Starr Jocelyn Murphy (born June 17, 1860 in Avon , Connecticut , † April 4, 1921 in Daytona , Florida ) was an American attorney and from 1904 to 1921 with the Standard Oil Company .

Murphy was the son of Reverend Elijah Douglass Murphy, whose ancestors immigrated from Ireland. His mother was also the daughter of a clergyman, Rev. Simeon Smith Jocelyn, of New Haven. The name "Starr" came from her grandmother Harriette Starr. In 1858 his father was pastor of the Congregational Church in Avon and from 1864 at the Port Society's Church in Montclair until he gave up his office for health reasons in 1888 and died in 1890. Starr had two brothers and a sister.

Murphy attended Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn and then Amherst College , which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1881. Then he was a student at the Law School of Columbia University and finished his studies in 1883 with "summa cum laude" (LL.b.), so that in May d. J. was immediately admitted to the bar in New York State.

His first employment was with Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower and then as a lawyer with Murphy, Lloyd & Boyd. Ten years later the law firm was called Murphy & Lloyd.

On June 9, 1887, Murphy married Julia Brush Doubleday, daughter of John Mason Doubleday, a respected citizen of Montclair, so he settled here. In Montclair he also met Frederick Taylor Gates , who also lived there.

In 1904, John Davison Rockefeller (Gates) claimed Murphy for legal review of his $ 1 million donation for new Harvard Medical School buildings. So pleased with it that he asked Murphy to leave his practice and move to Standard Oil Building 26, Broadway.

Murphy was a trustee on the General Education Board and later co-founder of the Rockefeller Foundation and advised the Rockefellers on fundraising from their foundations. In 1910 he and Gates presented the plans for the Foundation to the press. In contrast to the GEB, whose activity was limited to the USA, the Foundation should be flexible and be able to act worldwide.

literature

  • Raymond Blaine Fosdick: The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation . Published by Harper & Brothers 1952. New edition: Transaction Publisher, March 1989. ISBN 978-0887382482

(Fosdick was President of the Rockefeller Foundation 1936–1948)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Obituary Rev. Dr. Elijah D. Murphy. The New York Times August 15, 1890
  2. ^ Biographical Record of Amherst College Grads and Non-Grads 1871-1896
  3. $ 1,000,000 FOR HARVARD FROM JD ROCKEFELLER .; He Will Help to Further the Completion of Plans for Perfecting the University's Medical School. The New York Times February 2, 1902
  4. ROCKEFELLER TO MAKE HUGE GIFT TO ALL MANKIND; Plans Foundation to Promote Human Progress Throughout the World. - New York Times March 13, 1910