Truman Harvey Purdy

(1830-1898)
Pennsylvania

Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
of the Nineteenth Century 765 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)

"PURDY, TRUMAN H., educator, lawyer, legislator, poet, was born June 26, 1830, in Wayne county, Pa. In his youth he taught school, and for ten years was a newspaper editor. For two terms he served with distinction as a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. He has attained success in the practice of law at Sunbury, Pa., deals in real estate, and is connected with several manufacturing enterprises. He is the author of three volumes of poems, entitled Doubter, Legends of the Susquehanna; and The Inn at Orr; and has contributed extensively to current literature." [Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 765 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898)][WorldCat/OCLC shows libraries holding only Legends of the Susquehanna.]

Truman Harmon Purdy
Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania .

Poetry

Truman H. Purdy, Legends of the Susquehanna, and Other Poems (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1888)(illus. by F.O.C. Darley & F.E. Lummis) [online text]