Local historians learned of the mummified man’s identity through prison and funeral home records.
James Murphy, also known as Stoneman Willie, was accidentally mummified by a mortician experimenting with new embalming techniques.
Dressed in a period tuxedo, his generations-long public afterlife as the stuff of city lore and ghost stories ended when he was introduced to the world as James Murphy of New York at a funeral in Reading. Blankenbiller said at the funeral that Murphy’s real name was known to Theo Auman, the director of the funeral home in 1895. Murphy’s real name had been passed down within the funeral home over the past 128 years, but it was not until the latest decision to give him a proper burial that the research was done to conclusively confirm his identity as James Murphy.
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