Biography of John Edward Blakeney Purdon, Tampa, Hillsborough Co., FL

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JOHN EDWARD BLAKENEY PURDON

     John Edward Blakeney Purdon, of Tampa, Florida, was born in Dublin, Ireland,
May 25, 1839.  He is the son of the Late Alderman Edward Purdon, formerly Lord Mayor
of Dublin, and his wife, Sarah Murphy, of Silver Hills, County Kildare.  He entered
Trinity College, Dublin, in 1857, and graduated in arts in 1862, as a Scholar of the
House, having obrained the senior moderatorship, and gold medal in Experimental and
Natural Sciences at the Bachelor of Arts examination the prevous year.  In 1863 the
separate degrees of Bachelor in Medicine and Master in Surgery wre conferred upon
hhim by the University of Dublin [Trinity College] and the M. D. in 1885.  In 1865
he entered the British Army, by competitive examination, as assistant surgeon, and
proceeded to India, where for several years he was engaged in the study of cholera,
dysentery, malarious fevers, and all the diseases incidental to life in the
tropics...  Doctor Purdon has resided in America since his retirement from the Army
in 1883, and is a member of some of the leading medical societies of the South...
He was married in 1866, to Hannah Selina, daughter of Anthony Kilroy, Esq., of
Ornand County Cavan, Ireland.  The eldest of their four surviving children, Edward
Anthony H., is a physician engaged in practice with his father.

Ref:  Stone, R. French, BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 1894,
Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 414.

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