Early Life
Most details of John Purdue's early life were either not recorded or lost. His father was Charles Purdue and his mother was Mary Short Purdue. He had eight sisters and no brothers. Sometime after 1813 (possibly as late as 1823), the family moved to Ross County, Ohio. During the move, the second oldest daughter, Nancy, died, and shortly after the move, his father Charles died. Shortly thereafter John was apprenticed to an Adelphi merchant and his mother and at least a few of his sisters moved north and settled near Westerville, Ohio.
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