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Albert Payson Terhune

January 07, 2023

Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. He was popular 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 Collies.[1][2]

Albert Payson Terhune
Born(1872-12-21)December 21, 1872
Newark, New Jersey, US
DiedFebruary 18, 1942(1942-02-18) (aged 69)
Pompton Lakes, New Jersey, US
Resting placePompton Reformed Church
EducationColumbia University
OccupationWriter
Known forAuthor
Sunnybank Kennels
Spouse(s)Lorraine Bryson
Anice Terhune
Children1
Parent(s)Edward Payson Terhune
Mary Virginia Hawes
RelativesChristine Terhune Herrick (sister)
Signature

Biography

Albert Payson Terhune was born in New Jersey to Mary Virginia Hawes and the Reverend Edward Payson Terhune. His mother 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 (41°00′04″N 74°16′32″W / 41.0012°N 74.2755°W / 41.0012; -74.2755 (Terhune Memorial Park)) 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 to 1916, he worked as a reporter for The Evening World.

 
Albert Payson Terhune in conference with his Rough Collies

He boxed exhibition matches with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and James J. Jeffries.[3]

His Sunnybank Kennels where he bred and raised Rough Collies were "the most famed collie kennels in the U.S."[3]

"Bert" Terhune was an active member of the Adventurers' Club of New York.

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 married author and composer Anice Potter Terhune; they never had children. He died on February 18, 1942.[1] He was buried at the Pompton Reformed Church in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.

Legacy

His estate, Sunnybank, in Wayne, New Jersey, is maintained as Terhune Memorial Park – Sunnybank.[4][5] 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 and the Van Riper–Hopper House Museum in Wayne, New Jersey. Albert Payson Terhune Elementary School, one of nine elementary schools in Wayne, New Jersey, is named in honor of the author. Their mascot is the collie dog. Pequannock Township, adjacent to Wayne, has a Payson Road, Terhune Ave and a Ladd Street named after him and his Canine character.

The Albert Payson Terhune Foundation was established in 1965 in New Jersey. The foundation does not maintain a website. It gives grants to organizations working with children, schools, and domesticated animals.[6]

As a tribute to Terhune, the dog in Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog, as well as the later 1975 film, calls his master Albert.

Writing

Albert Payson Terhune first published short stories about his collie Lad, titled Lad Stories, in various general-interest magazines, including Red Book, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Hartford Courant, and the Atlantic Monthly.[7][8] 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 30 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.[9] Terhune is now often criticized for his starkly racist depictions of the minorities, hill people and so-called "half-breeds" that peopled parts of northern New Jersey less idealized than Sunnybank.[10][11]

List of works

 
Terhune in 1922
 
Terhune's "In Treason's Track" was the cover story for the December 1910 issue of The Argosy.
 
"As the Dice Fell" was originally published in The Argosy in 1912.
  • 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)
  • Famous American Indians (1912)
  • Around the World in Thirty Days (1914)
  • Dad (1914) (with Sinclair Lewis[citation needed])
  • The Story of Damon and Pythias (1915)
  • The Red Circle novelization (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 Dog (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 Lad (1922) republished as Dog Stories Every Child Should Know (1941)
  • The Pest (1923)
  • Lochinvar Luck (1923)
  • The Amateur Inn (1923)
  • Grudge Mountain (1923) republished as Dog of the High Sierras (Grosset & Dunlap)
  • Treve (1924)
  • The Tiger's Claw (1924)
  • The Heart of a Dog (1924)
  • Now That I'm Fifty (1924)
  • 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)
  • Loot (1928) republished as Collie to the Rescue (1940)
  • 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 (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) five stories from The Heart of a Dog and five stories from My Friend the Dog

In popular culture

  • Terhune was mentioned twice in Charles M. Schulz's Lil' Folks and once in Peanuts
  • Terhune is mentioned Roger Zelazny's This Immortal.
  • "Albert" is used by Blood, a telepathic dog, to mock his young adult companion Vic in the film A Boy and His Dog. It remains unexplained why Blood says it in the film itself, though it was elaborated on by Harlan Ellison, author of the story the movie is based on, that it's in reference to Terhune.
  • The young protagonist of Edward Bunker's semi-autobiographical novel about troubled youth, Little Boy Blue, mentions more than once that he enjoys reading books about Collie dogs written by Albert Payson Terhune. See chapters 6 and 8.
  • Terhune is mentioned in the first chapter of Andy Rooney's book My War, 1997 (ISBN 0-517-17986-5) with: "I couldn’t have been more surprised, as my friend Charlie Slocum used to say, if I'd seen Albert Payson Terhune kick a collie."

References

  1. ^ a b "Albert P. Terhune Dies". The New York Times. February 19, 1942. Retrieved May 24, 2007. Writer of Stories About Dogs. Stricken at Pompton Lakes. His Kennel Famous. Did Screen Work. Published Lad: A Dog, First in Canine Series, in 1919.
  2. ^ "Albert P. Terhune, Author, Dies at 69. Dogs Were Central Characters in His Most Noted Stories. Was Outstanding Amateur Boxer in His Earlier Years. Funeral Saturday". The Baltimore Sun. February 19, 1942. Retrieved June 30, 2010. Albert Payson Terhune, 69, died today at his forly-four-acre estate, Sunnybank, among the collies that won him international fame as an author.
  3. ^ a b . Time magazine. March 2, 1942. Archived from the original on October 14, 2010. Died. Albert Payson Terhune, 69, world's most prolific and successful writer of dog stories (Lad: A Dog; Buff: A Collie; etc.); in Pompton Lakes, N.J. He wrote stories about human beings for more than 20 years before he sold his first dog story. A jut-jawed, athletic heavyweight, who had boxed exhibition bouts with James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries, he wrote eleven hours a day, six days a week for some 30 years. His kennels, Sunnybank, became the most famed collie kennels in the U.S.
  4. ^ . Township of Wayne, New Jersey. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  5. ^ "Sunnybank Today". Sunnybank Collies. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
  6. ^ "Albert Payson Terhune Foundation (New Jersey)". www.homelandsecuritygrants.info. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
  7. ^ Marshall, Kristina T. (2001). His Dogs. The Collie Health Foundation. p. 29.
  8. ^ Morris, Timothy (2000). You're Only Young Twice: Children's Literature and Films. University of Illinois Press. pp. 32–42. ISBN 0-252-02532-6.
  9. ^ "Lad: A Dog (1962)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
  10. ^ Johnson, Howard Eugene (February 27, 2014). A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club. Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 9780823256556. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
  11. ^ Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall (2008). Woof!: Writers on Dogs. Penguin Books. p. 2. ISBN 9780670020294. Retrieved December 31, 2014.

Further reading

  • Terhune, Anice (1943). The Bert Terhune I Knew. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Struble, Evelin Armstron (1966). In the Ramapos, A True Story of the Terhunes and the Little Town They Loved. Rocco Press.
  • Litvag, Irving (1977). The Master of Sunnybank: A Biography of Albert Payson Terhune. New York: HarperCollins.
  • Marshall, Kristina (2001). His Dogs: Albert Payson Terhune and the Sunnybank Collies. Collie Club of America Foundation. A detailed look at the Sunnybank collies, including their breeding records, legacy, and daily lives, illustrated with extensive photographs.
  • Marshall, Kristina (2007). Forever Friends: A Guide to the Dogs of Sunnybank. Kristina Marshall. Encyclopedia-style biographies of the Sunnybank dogs, including Lad, as well as further information on the breeding lines of Sunnybank.

External links

 
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Albert Payson Terhune.
  • Works by Albert Payson Terhune at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by Albert Payson Terhune at Faded Page (Canada)
  • Works by or about Albert Payson Terhune at Internet Archive
  • Works by Albert Payson Terhune at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)  
  • Albert Payson Terhune at Find a Grave
  • Albert Payson Terhune Correspondence Collection at Central Connecticut State University
  • at Wayne Township, NJ
  • Albert Payson Terhune at Library of Congress Authorities, with 113 catalogue records
  • Albert Payson Terhune at IMDb

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Albert Payson Terhune December 21 1872 February 18 1942 was an American author dog breeder and journalist He was popular 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 Collies 1 2 Albert Payson TerhuneBorn 1872 12 21 December 21 1872Newark New Jersey USDiedFebruary 18 1942 1942 02 18 aged 69 Pompton Lakes New Jersey USResting placePompton Reformed ChurchEducationColumbia UniversityOccupationWriterKnown forAuthorSunnybank KennelsSpouse s Lorraine BrysonAnice TerhuneChildren1Parent s Edward Payson TerhuneMary Virginia HawesRelativesChristine Terhune Herrick sister Signature Contents 1 Biography 2 Legacy 3 Writing 4 List of works 5 In popular culture 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksBiography EditAlbert Payson Terhune was born in New Jersey to Mary Virginia Hawes and the Reverend Edward Payson Terhune His mother 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 41 00 04 N 74 16 32 W 41 0012 N 74 2755 W 41 0012 74 2755 Terhune Memorial Park 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 to 1916 he worked as a reporter for The Evening World Albert Payson Terhune in conference with his Rough Collies He boxed exhibition matches with James J Corbett Bob Fitzsimmons and James J Jeffries 3 His Sunnybank Kennels where he bred and raised Rough Collies were the most famed collie kennels in the U S 3 Bert Terhune was an active member of the Adventurers Club of New York 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 married author and composer Anice Potter Terhune they never had children He died on February 18 1942 1 He was buried at the Pompton Reformed Church in Pompton Lakes New Jersey Legacy EditHis estate Sunnybank in Wayne New Jersey is maintained as Terhune Memorial Park Sunnybank 4 5 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 and the Van Riper Hopper House Museum in Wayne New Jersey Albert Payson Terhune Elementary School one of nine elementary schools in Wayne New Jersey is named in honor of the author Their mascot is the collie dog Pequannock Township adjacent to Wayne has a Payson Road Terhune Ave and a Ladd Street named after him and his Canine character The Albert Payson Terhune Foundation was established in 1965 in New Jersey The foundation does not maintain a website It gives grants to organizations working with children schools and domesticated animals 6 As a tribute to Terhune the dog in Harlan Ellison s A Boy and His Dog as well as the later 1975 film calls his master Albert Writing EditAlbert Payson Terhune first published short stories about his collie Lad titled Lad Stories in various general interest magazines including Red Book Saturday Evening Post Ladies Home Journal Hartford Courant and the Atlantic Monthly 7 8 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 30 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 9 Terhune is now often criticized for his starkly racist depictions of the minorities hill people and so called half breeds that peopled parts of northern New Jersey less idealized than Sunnybank 10 11 List of works Edit Terhune in 1922 Terhune s In Treason s Track was the cover story for the December 1910 issue of The Argosy As the Dice Fell was originally published in The Argosy in 1912 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 Famous American Indians 1912 Around the World in Thirty Days 1914 Dad 1914 with Sinclair Lewis citation needed The Story of Damon and Pythias 1915 The Red Circle novelization 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 Dog 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 Lad 1922 republished as Dog Stories Every Child Should Know 1941 The Pest 1923 Lochinvar Luck 1923 The Amateur Inn 1923 Grudge Mountain 1923 republished as Dog of the High Sierras Grosset amp Dunlap Treve 1924 The Tiger s Claw 1924 The Heart of a Dog 1924 Now That I m Fifty 1924 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 Loot 1928 republished as Collie to the Rescue 1940 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 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 five stories from The Heart of a Dog and five stories from My Friend the DogIn popular culture EditTerhune was mentioned twice in Charles M Schulz s Lil Folks and once in Peanuts Terhune is mentioned Roger Zelazny s This Immortal Albert is used by Blood a telepathic dog to mock his young adult companion Vic in the film A Boy and His Dog It remains unexplained why Blood says it in the film itself though it was elaborated on by Harlan Ellison author of the story the movie is based on that it s in reference to Terhune The young protagonist of Edward Bunker s semi autobiographical novel about troubled youth Little Boy Blue mentions more than once that he enjoys reading books about Collie dogs written by Albert Payson Terhune See chapters 6 and 8 Terhune is mentioned in the first chapter of Andy Rooney s book My War 1997 ISBN 0 517 17986 5 with I couldn t have been more surprised as my friend Charlie Slocum used to say if I d seen Albert Payson Terhune kick a collie References Edit a b Albert P Terhune Dies The New York Times February 19 1942 Retrieved May 24 2007 Writer of Stories About Dogs Stricken at Pompton Lakes His Kennel Famous Did Screen Work Published Lad A Dog First in Canine Series in 1919 Albert P Terhune Author Dies at 69 Dogs Were Central Characters in His Most Noted Stories Was Outstanding Amateur Boxer in His Earlier Years Funeral Saturday The Baltimore Sun February 19 1942 Retrieved June 30 2010 Albert Payson Terhune 69 died today at his forly four acre estate Sunnybank among the collies that won him international fame as an author a b Milestones Time magazine March 2 1942 Archived from the original on October 14 2010 Died Albert Payson Terhune 69 world s most prolific and successful writer of dog stories Lad A Dog Buff A Collie etc in Pompton Lakes N J He wrote stories about human beings for more than 20 years before he sold his first dog story A jut jawed athletic heavyweight who had boxed exhibition bouts with James J Corbett Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries he wrote eleven hours a day six days a week for some 30 years His kennels Sunnybank became the most famed collie kennels in the U S Historical Commission and House Museums Sunnybank Township of Wayne New Jersey Archived from the original on October 23 2009 Retrieved February 4 2011 Sunnybank Today Sunnybank Collies Retrieved February 4 2011 Albert Payson Terhune Foundation New Jersey www homelandsecuritygrants info Retrieved August 3 2021 Marshall Kristina T 2001 His Dogs The Collie Health Foundation p 29 Morris Timothy 2000 You re Only Young Twice Children s Literature and Films University of Illinois Press pp 32 42 ISBN 0 252 02532 6 Lad A Dog 1962 Turner Classic Movies Retrieved October 22 2009 Johnson Howard Eugene February 27 2014 A Dancer in the Revolution Stretch Johnson Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club Oxford University Press p 28 ISBN 9780823256556 Retrieved December 31 2014 Thomas Elizabeth Marshall 2008 Woof Writers on Dogs Penguin Books p 2 ISBN 9780670020294 Retrieved December 31 2014 Further reading EditTerhune Anice 1943 The Bert Terhune I Knew New York HarperCollins Struble Evelin Armstron 1966 In the Ramapos A True Story of the Terhunes and the Little Town They Loved Rocco Press Litvag Irving 1977 The Master of Sunnybank A Biography of Albert Payson Terhune New York HarperCollins Marshall Kristina 2001 His Dogs Albert Payson Terhune and the Sunnybank Collies Collie Club of America Foundation A detailed look at the Sunnybank collies including their breeding records legacy and daily lives illustrated with extensive photographs Marshall Kristina 2007 Forever Friends A Guide to the Dogs of Sunnybank Kristina Marshall Encyclopedia style biographies of the Sunnybank dogs including Lad as well as further information on the breeding lines of Sunnybank External links Edit Wikisource has original works by or about Albert Payson Terhune Wikimedia Commons has media related to Albert Payson Terhune Works by Albert Payson Terhune at Project Gutenberg Works by Albert Payson Terhune at Faded Page Canada Works by or about Albert Payson Terhune at Internet Archive Works by Albert Payson Terhune at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Albert Payson Terhune at Find a Grave Albert Payson Terhune Correspondence Collection at Central Connecticut State University Terhune Memorial Park Sunnybank at Wayne Township NJ Albert Payson Terhune at Library of Congress Authorities with 113 catalogue records Albert Payson Terhune at IMDb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Albert Payson Terhune amp oldid 1112506454, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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