Call Number:

MC.975.04.021

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Samuel A. Purdie scrapbook (HC.MC.975.04.021), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1866-1869 (inclusive)

Creator:

Purdie, Samuel A.

Form:

clippings (information artifacts)

Abstract:

The scrapbook of Samuel A. Purdie includes clippings of his writing, including a series of essays on "Quakerism in Dixie," a series entitled "Journal of a Conscript," and a series entitled "For the Pioneer, Sojourn in the Land of Secession after a Collapsed Rebellion." The clippings are pasted into the Back Creek Monthly Meeting school attendance record books.

Samuel Alexander Purdie (1843-1897) was born on March 5, 1843, in Columbus, New York, the son of Samuel Purdie and Waity Howard. He married Gulielma Maria Hoover (1850-1936), and the couple had one son, Joseph Moore Purdie (1880-1958). The family went on a Quaker mission in Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1895. Samuel Purdie died on August 3, 1897, in San Salvador, El Salvador.

This collection is comprised of the single volume scrapbook of Samuel A. Purdie. The volume includes clippings of his writing, including a series of essays on "Quakerism in Dixie," a series entitled "Journal of a Conscript," and a series entitled "For the Pioneer, Sojourn in the Land of Secession after a Collapsed Rebellion." The clippings are pasted into the Back Creek Monthly Meeting school attendance record books.