Elizabeth Murphy Taaffe
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Murphy Taaffe was an American rancher and early settler in Santa [Clara County, California]. She the first child born of English-speaking parents in the State of California.
Family, and life
Elizabeth Yuba Murphy was born on December 1, 1844, in Placer County, California. She was a middle child born to Martin Murphy [Jr.] and his wife Mary Bulger Murphy, and was from the Irish Murphy family. She was born during the Stephens–Townsend–Murphy Party migration, and was the first child born of English-speaking parents in California.When Murphy married San Francisco merchant William Post Taaffe in 1863, her father gave them of his own ranch land, in what is now Los Altos [Hills, California]. They named the land Taaffe Ranch. The Taffee family had four children, and seven generations of the family have remained in Los Altos Hills.