Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 428-429 [Hopkins]

      ARCHIBALD DIXON PURDY, M. D., of Kuttawa, was born on a farm in
Hopkins county, Kentucky, April 28, 1854, and was reared in his native
place.  He left home when fourteen years of age, with thirty cents in his
pocket, and walked to Union county, Kentucky, where he hired himself out
to a farmer by the day, earning sufficient to purchase a hundred-acre
farm in Hopkins county, to which his mother, brother and sister later
moved.  He attended school at Charleston, Hopkins county, Kentucky, and
then clerked for M. M. Lynch for several months.  The latter helped him
during his youth and took an interest in the plucky lad.  By teaching the
young fellow earned enough to continue his own studies, and meanwhile
worked upon the farm.  Finally he began the study of medicine, and
entered the University of Tennessee and was graduated from the medical
department in February, 1882.  Immediately thereafter he located in
Kuttawa, and has since made it his home, building up a large and paying
practice.  He is a member of the Lyon County Medical Society, of which he
is vice president; and member of the Kentucky State Medical Association. 
Fraternally he is a Master Mason, and is very active in the order.  In
politics he is a Democrat.
     In 1886 he married Miss Ida Hopkins, of Paducah, Kentucky, the
accomplished daughter of John W. Hopkins, Esq.  Three children have been
born of this marriage, two living and one deceased, namely: Archibald;
John, deceased; Mary Irwin.
     Dr. Purdy owns about twenty-six thousand acres of land, and is
largely interested in farming.  Being a strictly self-made man, the
success which has attended him is all the more remarkable and creditable,
and has also gained a host of warm personal friends.

Purdy Lynch Hopkins
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Union-KY

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