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- Kansas: The First Century, v.3
Lewis Historical Publishing Co., New York, 1956
p. 16 (with photo)
"For the past twenty years, Dr. Murray Chadwick Eddy has practiced at Hays, limiting his practice to general surgery. He has held important offices in connection with hospitals and clinics, and has been active in the public affairs of the city and state.
A native of Colby, he was born on March 18, 1898, son of Victor Cooper and Emma Etta (Murray) Eddy. His father too was a physician. He practiced medicine at Colby, Kansas, for sixty-two years, and was still active just preceding his death, from complications following a fracture, in August 1947. Dr. Victor C. Eddy served as a member of the Kansas State Board of Health in 1920.
Dr. Murray C. Eddy began his education in his native state, and entered the University of Chicago for his advanced studies, taking his degree of Bachelor of Science from the University of Chicago in 1923. In 1926 he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine at Rush Medical College. He interned at St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago, and continued with a residency there from July 1926, to July 1927.
Dr. Eddy began his practice of medicine at Colby, Kansas in 1927, and continued there until 1935. He has since practiced at Hays, with practice limited to general surgery. Since 1947, he has been director of the Eddy Clinic. He is also chief of staff of St. Anthony's Hospital at Hays, and is senior attending staff surgeon at Hadley Memorial Hospital in the same city.
Dr. Eddy has been a fellow the American College of Surgeons since 1934. He is a member of the American Medical Association and Kansas State Medical Society, and of Nu Sigma Nu medical fraternity. He served as president of the state medical society from May 1954 to May 1955.
From 1932 to 1935, Dr. Eddy served on the city council of Colby, Kansas. He has served as president of the Hays Chamber of Commerce, holding office in 1936, and is a director of the Kansas State Chamber of Commerce. He is also a director of the First National Bank in his home city, and has proved himself no less competent in business affairs than in his profession. He is a member of the Rotary Club nd the Kansas City Club, and is identified with the various bodies of the Masonic order. He and his family attend the Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Eddy is a veteran of World War I, having served in the Student Army Training Corps from September to December 1917. Thereafter, until the end of his period of military service, he was a patient at the Fort Riley, Kansas Base Hospital.
On September 21 ,1921, at Colby, Dr. Murray C. Eddy married Irma Elizabeth Boerner, daughter of Ernest E. and Mary (Troutfetter) Boerner. The couple make their home at 309 West Twenty-first Street, Hays, and they are the parents of two children: 1. Barbara Anne, born August 29, 1925, 2. Victor Murray, born January 28, 1929."
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