John Purdue (/pɜrˈduː/; October 31, 1802 in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania – September 12, 1876) was a famous industrialist in Lafayette, Indiana, and the primary original benefactor of Purdue University.
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“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)