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Uncle

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Brand: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781557534583
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781557534583

My Journey with John Purdue

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By Irena McCammon Scott
Imprint: PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December 29, 2007
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 440 g
Pages: 274

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In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. Uncle challenges a commonly held belief that Purdue was a cold-hearted business mogul. Instead the author shows Purdue as a human being and as a generous family man with a visionary nature.

Irena McCammon Scott is the great-great-grandniece of John Purdue. She lives in Delaware County, Ohio, on a farm John Purdue is believed to have purchased in 1865 for his sister, Catherine Purdue McCammon. She has a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Missouri, was an Assistant Professor of Biology at St. Bonaventure University, and has done research and teaching at Cornell University, the Ohio State

Acknowledgments Foreword Prologue Chapter One: Pennsylvania: The "Great Path" to Exploration and Education Chapter Two: Ohio Legends and Facts: Whisler and Marion, Ohio, and Michigan Chapter Three: Adelphi Chapter Four: 1839-1850: Lafayette, Indiana Chapter Five: The 1860s: Civic Leader, CEO, Manager, Connoisseur Chapter Six: 1860: The Walnut Grove Farm Chapter Seven: 1864-1870: Uncle's First Gifts Chapter Eight: 1866-1870: "The Scales Fell From Our Eyes" Chapter Nine: 1870-1876: Industry, Mines, and Gutsy, High-Rolling Kings Chapter Ten: 1870-1876: Field of Dreams Chapter Eleven: Legacy Notes References Index

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