. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. PATRICK BOWEN MURPHY Band, a musical organization which attracted much attention, andplayed all over the country. He also organized all the children ofthe public schools into Bands of Mercy, in connection with the workof the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Thisaction was gratefully acknowledged in Dumb Animals, theofficial organ of the society. No priest was ever more popular inNatick than Father Murphy. He was elected a member of the school committee of thetown, and ser
. Biographical history of Massachusetts : biographies and autobiographies of the leading men in the state. PATRICK BOWEN MURPHY Band, a musical organization which attracted much attention, andplayed all over the country. He also organized all the children ofthe public schools into Bands of Mercy, in connection with the workof the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Thisaction was gratefully acknowledged in Dumb Animals, theofficial organ of the society. No priest was ever more popular inNatick than Father Murphy. He was elected a member of the school committee of thetown, and served faithfully several years. He was then ap-pointed rector of St. Georges Church, of Saxonville, the third old-est church in the archdiocese of Boston, where he served forfourteen years, when he was transferred to the Church of OurLady of the Rosary. When the Spanish War broke out, he was commissioned Chaplainof the Ninth Regiment on May 14, 1898, under Colonel military rank was equivalent to that of mounted captain, en-titling him to the use of a horse, so necessary to the performance ofhi
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