Appendix B

Companies founded by Dan Murphy

A chronological list of companies in which Dan Murphy served as an incorporator or director.

This list of corporations represents the companies in which Dan Murphy was one of the incorporating (usually one of five incorporators) signers of each firm’s “Articles of Incorporation”; in a few cases, he was a member of the board of directors. The companies are in chronological order of their founding. Some companies were incorporated long after their founding, i.e., Monaghan & Murphy Company founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1901. Murphy began working in Los Angeles in 1900. Many of the companies founded after that date are corporations which were in the interest of the Pacific Land Improvement Company, the real estate arm of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad.

  1. Monaghan & Murphy Company
  2. Murphy Water, Ice & Electric Company (Inc. 1904)
  3. Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company
  4. Needles Land & Cattle Company
  5. Needles Smelting Company
  6. Rock Springs Cattle
  7. Hidden Hills Mining
  8. Monaghan & Murphy Bank
  9. Brea Cañon Oil
  10. Holmes Supplies
  11. Globe Grain & Milling
  12. Octave Oil Company
  13. Colorado Steam Navigation
  14. Pacific Redwood Company
  15. W.N. Best International Calorific Company
  16. Los Angeles Cherokee Oil
  17. Avalon Hotel Association
  18. Kings County Land Development