Annie Powers was a friend of Walter Murphy's from Philadelphia. He loaned her and her family a sum of money in 1890 and gave her a share of his profits from one of his business ventures. She lived in Philadelphia in 1890.

Charles Hanford Henderson (1861-1941) was a lecturer, educator, and writer from Pennsylvania.

C. Hanford Henderson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1861. He was an American educator and author. In 1882 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and went on to become a lecturer at the Franklin Institute (1883-1886) and Harvard (1897-1898). He was a professor of physics and chemistry at the Philadelphia Manual Training School from 1889 to 1891 and he was director of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, from 1898 to 1899.

Henderson was an instrumental figure in education reform in the early twentieth century. He founded Camp Marienfeld, the first educational summer camp for boys, in 1896 at Milford, Pennsylvania. He also expanded his summer camp to include another property in Chesham, New Hampshire, in 1899. Henderson wanted to create a place where boys could enjoy themselves but continue to learn throughout the summer. His educational philosophies involved manual training, arts and crafts, and redesigning school curriculum to fit the needs of the children.

He died in Florida in 1941.

Walter Murphy (1861-1897) was a Philadelphia attorney and a founder of the Young Men's Liberal Club.

Walter Murphy was born on April 26, 1861, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents James Murphy and Susan Bispham Roe. Murphy was educated at private school and was admitted to Princeton University at age seventeen. However, he ended up attending Yale and graduated with honors in 1882. He studied law at the University of Pennsylvania and was allowed to practice in the Court of Common Pleas in 1884. In 1888 he moved to Salt Lake City to practice law with the firm Sutherland & McBride.

Murphy, a Presbyterian, married Emma B. Purves in 1889 at Philadelphia. Together they had three children. Murphy co-founded and was the secretary for the Young Men's Liberal Club, a club that promoted the political interests of the Liberal Party. In 1890 he was elected as the Prosecuting Attorney of Salt Lake County and held the position until 1895.

Murphy died of pnuemonia on February 5, 1897, in Salt Lake City, Utah.