
Uncle
My Journey with John Purdue
Irena McCammon Scott(Author)
Purdue University Press
Published on 30. September 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-1-55753-458-3 (ISBN)
Description
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 Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
West Lafayette
United States
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illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55753-458-3 (9781557534583)
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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
Content
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
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