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Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
[57] A recent brief biography of Purvis noted, "Nowhere in his obituary does it mention how he made the money he used to get into the banking business." [59] James F. Purvis was buried in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. [57] Cemetery records show that he died of heart disease and was interred April 24, 1880 in Area C, Lot 27. [60]
An erroneous obituary was published by the Oxford University Gazette on October 2, 2008, and withdrawn in a subsequent issue. [228] The confusion was caused by the recent death of his father, Professor John Horden. Whitney Houston, American singer, was falsely reported dead of a drug overdose on a radio report on September 12, 2001. [229]
Herman Edward Hollis (January 27, 1903 – November 27, 1934) was an American law-enforcement officer who worked as special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. [1] [2] As an FBI special agent in the 1930s, Hollis worked with agents Melvin Purvis, Samuel P. Cowley and others fighting bank robbers, gangsters and organized crime in the Chicago area during the Great Depression.
John "Jack" Purvis was born in Kokomo, Indiana on December 11, 1906 to Sanford B. Purvis, a real estate agent and his wife Nettie (Jackson) Purvis. [4] Jack's behavior became uncontrollable after his mother's death in 1912, and, as a result of many acts of petty larceny, he was sent to a reform school.
John Purvis was born to John and Emma Jo Purvis in 1942. His father died on February 20, 1945, with the U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima in World War II. His mother was devastated, and it seemed to have an effect on Purvis, who had physical problems of his own. At six years old, he would cry and become terrified to go to school and hold his mother.
John Robert Purvis, CBE (6 July 1938 – 20 March 2022) [1] was a Conservative MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife (1979–1984) and for Scotland from 1999 to 2009 [2] was one of Scotland's seven MEPs. [ 1 ]
Richard (Irven) Purvis (August 25, 1913 – December 25, 1994) was an American organist, composer, conductor and teacher. He was best known for his expressive recordings of the organ classics and his own lighter compositions for the instrument.