Dr. John Murdock and Ellen Scroggs

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Husband Dr. John Murdock ¹

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       Marriage:  - Washington, Washington Co, PA

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Wife Ellen Scroggs ¹

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         Father: James Scroggs (1746-      ) 2
         Mother: Margaret Cowden (      -      ) 3 4

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Children

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1 F [Infant] Murdock ⁵

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2 M James Murdock ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John Murdock

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Washington, Washington Co, PA - a physician

He was highly successful as a physician and was a charter member of the association that organized and endowed the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and although he was not a wealthy man he went to Philadelphia and gave his valuable library and $600.00 as a nucleus for the establishment of the institution.

Both Dr. Murdoch and his wife died in middle life, leaving no descendants.

1 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 43.

2 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22, 42.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 144.

4 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 22, 43.

5 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 44.