Uncle: My Journey with John Purdue

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 Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among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.

Author: Irena McCammon Scott
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 09/01/2007
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.03w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9781557534583
ISBN10: 1557534586
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Business
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- History | United States | 19th Century

About the Author
Irena McCammon Scott is the great-great-grandniece of John Purdue. She has a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Missouri, and was an Assistant Professor of Biology at St. Bonaventure University. She has published works in biology and about Ohio history.