Amos Joseph Griffin Purdy (September 4 or 5, 1825 – September 1904)Fernne Janzen Hamm

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, Canada. He represented Cumberland County in the

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from 1867 to 1871 and in 1874 as a

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member. He was born in Westchester,

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, the son of David Purdy and Mary Griffin, and the grandson of Gabriel Purdy, a

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. He was educated at the Sackville Academy. In 1855 or 1856, he married Elizabeth A. Atkinson / Aitkenson (1832–1892) with whom he had nine children. Purdy served as census commissioner for the province in 1870. He was elected to the provincial assembly a second time in 1874 but resigned his seat in March 1875.''The Canadian parliamentary companion'', HJ Morgan (1871)
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1825 births 1904 deaths Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs People from Cumberland County, Nova Scotia {{Liberal-NovaScotia-MLA-stub