Name: Murdock, Joseph B. (1851-1931)
Title: Instructor, United States Naval Academy, 1880-1883
Commander in Chief, Asiatic Fleet, United States Navy
Staff, Naval War College, 1897-1899
Commandant, New York Navy Yard, 1910
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1921, 1923
Member, Franklin Institute
Member, American Philosophical Society
Member, New Hampshire Historical Society
Other Names: Murdock. Joseph Ballard
Born: 02/13/1851
Birthplace: Hartford, CT
Died: 03/20/1931
Death Location: Manchester, NH
Residence: Hill, NH 1910-1931
Nationality: American
Occupation: Ensign, United States Navy, 1871
Master, United States Navy, 1874
Lieutenant, United States Navy, 1880
Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy, 1899
Commander, United States Navy, 1901
Captain, United States Navy, 1906
Rear-Admiral, United States Navy, 1909-1913
Father: Murdock, John Nelson
Mother: Ballard, Martha A.
Spouse: Anne Dillingham (1852-1930), June 26, 1879
Notes: Albert N. Marquis, Editor. Who's Who in New England. A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. (Chicago, Illinois: A. N. Marquis & Company, 1916), 776.
Joseph B. Murdock, Compiler. Murdock Genealogy: Robert Murdock of Roxbury, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants... (Boston, Massachsetts: C. E. Goodspeed & Co., 1925), 149-150, 170-171.
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA