Titel: The Midas of the Wabash: A Biography of John Purdue (The Founders Series)
Verlag: Purdue University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1557532877
ISBN-13: 9781557532879
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New

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The Midas of the Wabash is a biography of noted businessman John Purdue (1802-1876), whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's land grant university, Purdue University, in 1869. Purdue also contributed to economically important bridge, railroad, and cemetery construction, the existence of Lafayette Savings Bank and the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute, cattle farming, Lafayette's public school system, and countless other worthy enterprises. This is the first published full length study of Mr. Purdue's life and work beyond casual street-talk that portrayed Purdue as a difficult individual with whom to work. This biography incorporates research efforts by previous writers with facts gleaned from newspaper coverage, official documents, and a few rare samples of Mr. Purdue's letters. In this way, a complete picture of the man and myth is generated.

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Robert C. Kriebel is retired editor of the Lafayette Journal and Courier where he was employed 40 years in a variety of writing, editing, and executive positions. He continues in retirement to contribute a Sunday column about local history launched in 1977. Kriebel is the author of four books of Indiana biography and of one about the life and work of the American jazz bandleader Woody Herman; and is author or co-author of four books about Tippecanoe County, Indiana, history. From 1989 to 1991 he was an Advisory Board member and book reviewer for the Indiana Magazine of History.

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