Claudia Quigley Murphy (1863–1941) was an American journalist and advertising veteran,[1] remembered as one of the first woman newspaper reporters in the U.S.[2] She had a special talent for interviewing people.

Her father was Edward Quigley, and her mother was Eliza Sidley, whose home was in Geauga County, Ohio.

[1] Five years later, her newspaper work began as the Toledo correspondent of the Catholic Knight, of Cleveland, Ohio.

During her stay there, Murphy, with two other women, began the work of organizing the Michigan Woman's Press Association, of which she was elected recording secretary, a position she held until she left the State.

A Collation of Cakes, printed in 1923, was intended to be used in the classroom for the teaching of culinary art as well as in home demonstration work and women's clubs.

[6] She was, in December 1891, the Ohio president of the International Press League, president of the Toledo Political Equality Club, secretary of the Isabella Congressional Directory, and an active worker in the woman's suffrage association of her own city, one of the oldest societies in the State of Ohio.