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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“This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No.”
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