Albert Payson Terhune
Encyclopedia
Albert Payson Terhune was an American
author
, dog breeder, and journalist
. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collie
s.
to Mary Virginia Hawes and the Reverend Edward Payson Terhune
. His mother, Mary Virginia Hawes, was a writer of household management books and pre-Civil War novels under the name Marion Harland. Terhune had four sisters and one brother, though only two of his sisters lived to be adults: Christine Terhune Herrick (1859–1944); and Virginia Terhune Van De Water (1865–1945).
Sunnybank was originally the family's summer home, with Terhune making it his permanent residence in 1912. He was educated at Columbia University
where he received a Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1893. From 1894–1914, he worked as a reporter for The Evening World
.
He boxed exhibition matches with James J. Corbett
, Bob Fitzsimmons
and James J. Jeffries
.
His Sunnybank Kennels where he bred and raised rough collie
s were "the most famed collie kennels in the U.S.".
Terhune was married twice. His first wife, Lorraine Bryson Terhune, died at the age of 23 four days after giving birth to Lorraine Virginia Terhune Stevens (1898–1956) and nine months into the marriage. He later remarried to Anice Terhune; they never had children. He died on February 18, 1942. He was buried at the Pompton Reformed Church in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
.
is maintained as Terhune Memorial Park - Sunnybank. It is open to the public and visitors can visit the graves of many of the dogs mentioned in Terhune's works and view a collection of Terhune's book and dog awards at the Van Riper-Hopper Historic House Museum. Historical and family items from the Terhune home, "The Place," can be found at the Pompton Lakes Historical Museum.
, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal
, Hartford Courant, and the Atlantic Monthly. The first of his novels about his dogs, Lad: A Dog
, collected a dozen stories of his collie Lad in novel form. Lad was followed by over thirty additional dog-focused novels, including two additional books about Lad. Published in 1919, the novel was a best seller in both the adult and young adult markets and has been reprinted over 80 times. It was adapted into a feature film in 1962.
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author
Author
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, dog breeder, and journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collie
Rough Collie
The Rough Collie is a long coated breed of medium to large size dog that in its original form was a type of collie used and bred for herding in Scotland. Originating in the 1800's, it is now well known through the works of author Albert Payson Terhune, and through the Lassie novel, movies, and...
s.
Biography
Albert Payson Terhune was born in New JerseyNew Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
to Mary Virginia Hawes and the Reverend Edward Payson Terhune
Edward Payson Terhune
Edward Payson Terhune was an American theologian and author.-Biography:He was born on November 22, 1830 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1850. He then studied theology at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary...
. His mother, Mary Virginia Hawes, was a writer of household management books and pre-Civil War novels under the name Marion Harland. Terhune had four sisters and one brother, though only two of his sisters lived to be adults: Christine Terhune Herrick (1859–1944); and Virginia Terhune Van De Water (1865–1945).
Sunnybank was originally the family's summer home, with Terhune making it his permanent residence in 1912. He was educated at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
where he received a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
degree in 1893. From 1894–1914, he worked as a reporter for The Evening World
The Evening World
-History:The first issue was on October 10, 1887. It was published daily, except for Sunday. The final publication was on February 26, 1931. It was merged with New York World and the New York Telegram and became the New York World-Telegram....
.
He boxed exhibition matches with James J. Corbett
James J. Corbett
James John "Gentleman Jim" Corbett was an Irish-American heavyweight boxing champion, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco...
, Bob Fitzsimmons
Bob Fitzsimmons
Robert James "Bob" Fitzsimmons , was a British boxer who made boxing history as the sport's first three-division world champion. He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett, the man who beat John L. Sullivan, and is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the Lightest heavyweight...
and James J. Jeffries
James J. Jeffries
James Jackson Jeffries was a world heavyweight boxing champion.His greatest assets were his enormous strength and stamina. Using a technique taught to him by his trainer, former welterweight and middleweight champion Tommy Ryan, Jeffries fought out of a crouch with his left arm extended forward...
.
His Sunnybank Kennels where he bred and raised rough collie
Rough Collie
The Rough Collie is a long coated breed of medium to large size dog that in its original form was a type of collie used and bred for herding in Scotland. Originating in the 1800's, it is now well known through the works of author Albert Payson Terhune, and through the Lassie novel, movies, and...
s were "the most famed collie kennels in the U.S.".
Terhune was married twice. His first wife, Lorraine Bryson Terhune, died at the age of 23 four days after giving birth to Lorraine Virginia Terhune Stevens (1898–1956) and nine months into the marriage. He later remarried to Anice Terhune; they never had children. He died on February 18, 1942. He was buried at the Pompton Reformed Church in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey
Pompton Lakes is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 11,097....
.
Legacy
His estate, Sunnybank, in Pompton Lakes, New JerseyPompton Lakes, New Jersey
Pompton Lakes is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 11,097....
is maintained as Terhune Memorial Park - Sunnybank. It is open to the public and visitors can visit the graves of many of the dogs mentioned in Terhune's works and view a collection of Terhune's book and dog awards at the Van Riper-Hopper Historic House Museum. Historical and family items from the Terhune home, "The Place," can be found at the Pompton Lakes Historical Museum.
Writing
Albert Payson Terhune first published short stories about his collie Lad, titled Lad Stories, in various general-interest magazines, including Red BookRed Book
Red Book, Redbooks, Little Red Book or Big Red Book may refer to:- Political or ideological pamphlets :* The Little Red Book, the name commonly known in the West for the pocket-size edition of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung...
, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Journal is an American magazine which first appeared on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States...
, Hartford Courant, and the Atlantic Monthly. The first of his novels about his dogs, Lad: A Dog
Lad, A Dog
Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first published in magazines, the novel is loosely based on the life of Terhune's real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902, the real-life Lad was an unregistered...
, collected a dozen stories of his collie Lad in novel form. Lad was followed by over thirty additional dog-focused novels, including two additional books about Lad. Published in 1919, the novel was a best seller in both the adult and young adult markets and has been reprinted over 80 times. It was adapted into a feature film in 1962.
List of works
- Syria From the Saddle (1896)
- Columbia Stories (1897)
- How to Box to Win (1900) (written as "Terry McGovern")
- Dr. Dale: A Story Without A Moral (1900) (with Marion Harland)
- The New Mayor (1907)
- Caleb Conover, Railroader (1907)
- The World's Great Events (1908)
- The Fighter (1909)
- The Return of Peter Grimm (1912, novelization of the play by David Belasco)
- The Woman (1912)
- Around the World in Thirty Days (1914)
- Dad (1914) written with Sinclair Lewis
- The Story of Damon and Pythias (1915)
- Superwomen (1916) Republished as: Famous Hussies Of History (1943)
- Dollars and Cents (1917)
- The Years of the Locust (1917)
- Fortune (1918)
- Wonder Women In History (1918)
- Lad: A DogLad, A DogLad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first published in magazines, the novel is loosely based on the life of Terhune's real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902, the real-life Lad was an unregistered...
(1919) - Bruce (1920)
- Buff: A Collie (1921)
- The Man In the Dark (1921)
- His Dog (1922)
- Black Gold (1922)
- Black Caesar's Clan (1922)
- Further Adventures of LadFurther Adventures of LadFurther Adventures of Lad, also known as Dog Stories Every Child Should Know, is a 1922 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by George H. Doran...
(1922); Republished as: Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1941) - The Pest (1923)
- Lochinvar Luck (1923)
- The Amateur Inn (1923)
- Treve (1924)
- The Tiger's Claw (1924)
- The Heart of a Dog (1924)
- Now That I'm Fifty (1925)
- The Runaway Bag (1925)
- Wolf (1925)
- Najib (1925)
- Treasure (1926) Republished as: The Faith of a Collie' (1949)
- My Friend The Dog (1926)
- Gray Dawn (1927)
- The Luck of the Laird (1927) Republished as: A Highland Collie' (1950)
- Bumps (1927)
- Blundell's :Last Guest (1927)
- Water! (1928)
- Black Wings (1928)
- The Secret of Sea-Dream House (1929)
- Lad of Sunnybank (1929)
- To The Best Of My Memory (1930)
- Diana Thorne's Dog Basket: A Series of Etchings (1930)
- Proving Nothing (1930)
- A Dog Named Chips (1931)
- The Son Of God (1932)
- The Dog Book (1932)
- The Way of a Dog (1932)
- Letters of Marque (1934)
- The Book Of Sunnybank (1934) Republished as: Sunnybank: Home of Lad (1953)
- Real Tales of Real Dogs (1935)
- True Dog Stories (1936)
- The Critter And Other Dogs (1936)
- Unseen! (1937)
- The Terhune Omnibus (1937) Republished as The Best-Loved Dog Stories Of Albert Payson Terhune in 1954.
- A Book of Famous Dogs (1937) Republished as: Famous Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1937)
- Grudge Mountain (1939) Republished as: Dog of the High Sierras' (1951)
- Dogs (1940)
- Loot! (1940) Republished as: Collie to The Rescue (1952)
- Across The Line (1945) (With notes and commentary by Anice Terhune)
- Wallace: Glasgow's Immortal Fire Dog (1961)
- Great Dog Stories (1994) Collects five stories from The Heart of a Dog and five from My Friend The Dog.
External links
- Albert Payson Terhune Correspondence Collection at the Elihu Burritt Library
- Terhune Memorial Park-Sunnybank at Wayne Township, NJ