Albert Homer Purdue

Background

Purdue, Albert Homer was born on March 29, 1861 in Warrick Company, Indiana, United States. Son of Samuel Leroy and Phoebe (Priest) Purdue.

Education

Graduate Indiana State Normal School, 1886. Bachelor of Arts, Leland Stanford Junior University, 1893. Graduate work there, 1894.

Senior fellow, department of geology, University of Chicago, 1895-1896.

(Doctor of Laws, University of Arkansas, 1912).

Career

Superintendent public schools, West Plains, Missouri, 1887-1888. Assistant superintendent United States Indian School, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1889-1891. Assistant geologist, Arkansas, 1892-1893.

Professor geology, 1896-1902, head professor geology and mining, 1902-1912, University of Arkansas.

State geologist of Tennessee, since 1912. Field assistant, United States Geological Survey, 1895, 1901-1903, special field assistant, since 1903.

Superintendent mines and metallurgy for Arkansas, Saint Louis Exposition. Ex-officio state geologist of Arkansas, 1907-1912.

Editor: Resources of Tennessee.

Home: Nashville, Tennessee

Achievements

• Albert Homer Purdue has been listed as a noteworthy geologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Bertha Lee Burdick, September 1, 1887 (died 1888). Married second, Ida Pace, December 22, 1898.