Albert Payson Terhune

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 todays Rough Collies.

Albert Payson Terhune was born in New Jersey to Mary Virginia Hawes and the Reverend Edward Payson Terhune. His mother, Mary Virginia Hawes, was a writer of household management books and preCivil 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 and Virginia Terhune Van De Water .

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