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Claudia Quigley Murphy (1863-1941) was an American journalist, home economist, food historian, business consultant, and suffragist. She was included in the 1893 A Woman of the Century.

Early life and education
Murphy was born to Edward and Eliza (Sidley) Quigley in Toledo, Ohio, on March 28, 1863. She studied at Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart from the age of 5 until 1881. From 1881 she studied medicine with Elmina M. Roys Gavitt, but "her eyes gave out".

Career
Around 1888 she began working as a journalist, becoming the Toledo correspondent for the Catholic Knight, a Cleveland newspaper, and then managing editor for the Michigan Catholic of Grand Rapids. She helped organize the Michigan Woman's Press Association. She worked as a staff writer for the Toledo Commercial and then as editor and publisher of the Woman's Recorder, which had a suffragist mission. In December of 1891 she was the Ohio president of the International Press League. She was active in the women's equality and suffrage movements.

She became a home economist, advisory counsel, and business consultant. She advised the Women's National Economic Committee. She was a "lecturer on House Sanitation" at the University of Tennessee and wrote a regular column on the subject for Success magazine.

Personal life
In 1883 she married Michael H. Murphy. They had a daughter, Helen, born in 1887. Murphy's husband died in 1913 and her daughter in 1917 at age 29. Murphy died October 2, 1941, and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.