July 5: Henry Cruse Murphy


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July 5

Henry Cruse Murphy was born on this date in 1810; he would be known as “The Moses of the Brooklyn Bridge” because of his involvement in the building of that wonder was cut short on December 1, 1882, when he died, just months before the grand opening of the bridge, just before the bridge reached the Promised Land.

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