Mr. and Mrs. Taylor came to Norway Township in the early seventies from Iowa. They had a large family and a home in NW4 of Sec. 22. They operated a boarding car and boarded the men building the Union Pacific Railroad track (later the Mo. Pac.), first to Yuma, then north and afterward on west. Jerry Murphy, a witty Irishman, was a track foreman with the Company. He was from Cork County in Ireland; and when asked where he came from, he always said "Bottlestopper County, Ireland." He spent his evenings with the Taylor's daughter, Lizzie, while she was baking bread for the next day's meals.
They were married in 1880 and went to Clyde where he worked for the Rock Island Railroad, building the Rock Island track on west in 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Murphy spent all of their married life in Clyde. They reared two sons and two daughters, Margaret Stimpson and Cornelius, both deceased. Fred of Clyde and Jane Boyd of Wichita. Mrs. Jerry Murphy visited Norway friends as long as she lived..
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