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James Slater Murphy, MD

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Birthplace: New York, New York County, New York, United States
Death: February 05, 2007 (85)
Deep River, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
Place of Burial: 563 Bethel Green Road, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, 24401, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of James Bumgardner Murphy, MD and Mabel 'Ray' Murphy (Slater)
Ex-husband of Happy Rockefeller
Father of Malinda Fitler Menotti; Margaretta "Wendy" Harrison Bickford (Murphy) and Carol Slater Lyden
Brother of Private; Private and James Bumgardner Murphy, II

Occupation: virologist associated with Rockefeller Institute
Managed by: Private User
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About James Slater Murphy, MD

Dr. James Slater Murphy

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58717752/james_slater_murphy

Dr. Murphy graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1945, and like his father, became a research physician at the Rockefeller Institute.

On December 11, 1949, he married Margaret-ta Large Fitler. They had four children: James B. Murphy, II, Margaretta Harrison Murphy, Carol Slater Murphy, and Malinda Fitler Murphy (1960–2005). Malinda married Francis Menotti, the adopted son of composer Gian Carlo Menotti.

Margaretta and her husband divorced on April 1, 1963, for reasons The New York Times called "grievous mental anguish" and her former husband's lawyer classified as "irreconcilable differences." One month later – on May 4, 1963 – at the home of Laurance S. Rockefeller in Pocantico Hills, New York, Margaretta married Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who had taken office in 1959 and was eighteen years her senior. She had worked as a member of his office staff until her resignation in 1961. Nelson divorced his first wife, Mary Todhunter Clark, on March 16, 1962. Happy and Nelson Rockefeller had two sons together: Nelson Rockefeller, Jr. (born 1964), and Mark Rockefeller (born 1967).

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James Slater Murphy, MD's Timeline

1921
June 2, 1921
New York, New York County, New York, United States
1960
March 14, 1960
2007
February 5, 2007
Age 85
Deep River, Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States
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Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery, 563 Bethel Green Road, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, 24401, United States