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Claudia Quigley Murphy
Born
Claudia Quigley

(1863-03-28)March 28, 1863
Toledo, Ohio
DiedOctober 2, 1941(1941-10-02) (aged 78)
Toledo, Ohio
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer, suffragist, home economist, food historian, business consultant
Notable workThe Art of Tablesetting

Claudia Quigley Murphy (1863-1941)[1] was an American journalist, home economist, food historian, business consultant, and suffragist.[2] She was included in the 1893 A Woman of the Century.

Early life and education

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Murphy was born to Edward and Eliza (Sidley) Quigley in Toledo, Ohio, on March 28, 1863. She studied at Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart from the age of 5 until 1881. From 1881 she studied medicine with Elmina M. Roys Gavitt, but "her eyes gave out".[2]

Career

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Around 1888 she began working as a journalist, becoming the Toledo correspondent for the Catholic Knight, a Cleveland newspaper, and then managing editor for the Michigan Catholic of Grand Rapids. She helped organize the Michigan Woman's Press Association. She worked as a staff writer for the Toledo Commercial and then as editor and publisher of the Woman's Recorder, which had a suffragist mission. In December of 1891 she was the Ohio president of the International Press League. She was active in the women's equality and suffrage movements.[1][2][3]

She became a home economist, advisory counsel, and business consultant.[4] She advised the Women's National Economic Committee.[4] She was a "lecturer on House Sanitation" at the University of Tennessee and wrote a regular column on the subject for Success magazine.[5]

Bibliography

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  • Murphy, Claudia Quigley (1921). The Art of Table Setting, Ancient and Modern. Westphalia Press. ISBN 978-1-63391-185-7.[6]
  • How to Make the Best Preserves, Jellies and Marmalades
  • A History of and Suggestions in the Making of Biscuits, Quick Breads and Cake
  • Bread, the Vital Food: Illustrated with Plates on Copper from Authentic Sources, Including a Glossary of Bread Terms, Also a Selected List of General and Historical References to Bread
  • A Collation of Cakes: Yesterday and Today (1923)

Personal life

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In 1883 she married Michael H. Murphy.[2][7] They had a daughter, Helen, born in 1887. Murphy's husband died in 1913 and her daughter in 1917 at age 29. Murphy died October 2, 1941, and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Library and Picture Collection of the Late Martin Woolf Orskey". issuu.com. Dominic Winter Auctioneers. 26 June 2019. p. 101. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  2. ^ a b c d Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Gale Research Company.
  3. ^ Addams, Jane; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Harper, Ida Husted; Shaw, Anna Howard; Fawcett, Millicent Garrett; Pankhurst, Emmeline; Blackwell, Alice Stone (2018-03-21). The Women of the Suffrage Movement: Autobiographies & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes. e-artnow. ISBN 978-80-272-4281-8.
  4. ^ a b Foley, Margaret (1920). "She Created Her Own Job: How Mrs. Claudia Quigley Murphy Became an "Economic Consultant"". The Green Book Magazine. Story-Press association.
  5. ^ Success Magazine. McGraw-Marden Company. 1907.
  6. ^ Papers and Proceedings. American Library Association. 1922.
  7. ^ a b "Claudia Quigley Murphy (1863-1941) buried in Woodlawn Cemetery located in Toledo, OH | People Legacy". peoplelegacy.com. Retrieved 2022-12-30.

Further reading

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