Pugsley, Jacob J – Purviance, Samuel A
Pugsley, Jacob J
lawyer, congressman, was born in Dutchess county, N. Y. He served in both branches of the Ohio state legislature. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Pulitzer, Joseph
soldier, lawyer; journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born April 10, 1847, in Hungary. He was elected a representative in the Missouri legislature in 1869. In the spring of 1883 he bought the New York World, of which he became the editor and sole proprietor. In 1884 he was elected a representative from New York to the fortyninth congress.
Pulle, William Adams
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 18, 1819, in Richmond county, N. C. He has been prosecuting attorney, judge of the common pleas, and secretary of the state of Indiana. He has been one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana, and resides in Centreville.
PULLEN, MRS. ELISABETH (JONES) (CAVAZZA), author, was born in Maine.
She is a littérateur of Portland, Maine, and the author of Don Finimondone:
Calabrian Sketches.
Pullman, George Mortimer
founder and president of the Pullman Palace Car company, was born March 3, 1831, in Brockton, N.
Y. In 1859 he settled in Chicago during the period when the whole city was being lifted bodily to a higher level, and gained perhaps $20,- 000 by raising the Mattison house and various blocks of buildings and the level of certain streets under contract.
It was in 1859 that the attention of Mr. Pullman was first drawn, by traveling in one between Buffalo and Westfield, to the uncomfortable sleeping cars of that day, then consisting of ordinary passenger cars with three rows of bunks on each side. After conversations on the subject with Hon. Benjamin Field of New York state, Mr. Pullman became a partner of Mr. Field in the operation of sleeping cars on the Chicago and Alton and the old Galena railroads.
Pullman, James Minton
clergyman, journalist, author, was born Aug. 21, 1836, in Portland, N. Y. Since 1885 he has been pastor of the First Universalist church in Lynn, Mass., and he is president of the Associated Charities of that city. He edited the Christian Leader several years, and has published reviews and lectures.
Pulte, Joseph Hippolyt
physician, author, was born Oct. 6, 1811, in Germany. He was a physician of Cleveland, and the author of The Homeopathic Domestic Physician; The Science of Medicine; and The Woman's Medical Guide. He died Feb. 24, 1884, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Pumpelly, Mrs. Mary Hollen-
BACK (WELLES), poet, was born May 6, 1803, in Athens, Pa. She was a versewriter whose religious historical poems were collected in a volume in 1852. She died in 1879.
Pumpelly, Raphael
educator, geologist, author, was born Sept. 8, 1837, in Owego, N. Y. He is a geologist of note, professor of mining engineering at Harvard university from 1866, and the author of Geological Researches in China; Across America and Asia; and Notes of a Five- Years' Journey Around the World.
Punchard, George
journalist, clergyman, author, was born June 7, 1806, in Salem, Mass. He was a Boston journalist, for many years editor of The Traveller, but who, prior to 1845, was a congregational clergyman in New Hampshire. He was the author of History of Congregationalism from A. D. 250; and View of Congregationalism. He died April 2, 1880, in Boston, Mass.
Purce, Charles Lee
clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 4, 1856, in Charleston, S. C. He received the rudiments of his education in the public, private and high schools of his native city; attended the Benedict college of Columbia, S. C., the Richmond Theological seminary, and correspondence courses in Greek and Hebrew at Chicago, Ill. He has attained eminence as a baptist clergyman, and has filled pastorates in South Carolina, Alabama and Louisville, Ky. For two years he filled the chair of Greek and Latin in the Selma university, Ala.; and for eight years was its president. He has been the general missionary of the American Baptist Home Mission society of New York for Alabama, and is now the president of the State university of Louisville, Ky.
Purcell, John Baptist
archbishop, was born Feb. 26, 1800, in Ireland.
In 1828 he became president of St. Mary's college of Emmettsburg, Md. In 1850 he was made a Roman catholic archbishop at Cleveland, Ohio. He died July 4, 1883, in Brown county, Ohio.
Purdon, John
lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1784 in Philadelphia, Pa. He served in the Pennsylvania legislature, and was active in public affairs. He published an Abridgement of the Laws of Pennsylvania from 1700. He died Oct. 3, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Purdy, Smith M
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845. a
Purdy, Truman H
educator, lawyer, legislator, poet, was born June 26, 1830, in Wayne county, Pa. In his youth he taught school, and for ten years was a newspaper editor. For two terms he served with distinction as member of the Pennsylvania state legislature. He has attained success in the practice of law at Sunbury, Pa., deals in real estate, and is connected with several manufacturing enterprises. He is the author of three volumes of poems, entitled Doubter, Legends of the Susquehanna; and The Inn at Orr; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Purifoy, John
jurist, legislator, was born March 21, 1842, in Dallas county, Ala. He served one term as probate judge of Wilcox county, Ala.; in 1890 was elected a member of the house of representatives; and in 1892 became state auditor of Alabama.
Purinton, Daniel Boardman
educator, college president, author, was born Feb. 15, 1850, in Reno, Va. He received a thorough education at George's Creek academy, Pennsylvania, and the university of West Virginia. He was instructor in Latin and Greek during 1873-78 in the West Virginia university; professor of logic in 1878-80; professor of mathematics. during 1880-85; of metaphysics during. 1885-89; and during 1881-89 was vice-president and acting president of that institution. He has been councilman and mayor of Morgantown, W. Va. Since 1890 he has been president of the Denison university of Granville, Ohio. He is the author of Christian Theism; and some forty pieces of published sacred music, including words.
Purman, William J
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 11, 1840, in Centre county, Pa. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Florida in 1868, and soon after was elected to the state senate. He was secretary of state in 1868; was judge of Jackson county court in 1868; and was reelected in 1869. He was assessor of United States internal revenue for Florida in 1870, and was chairman of the republican state executive committee in 1872. He was elected a representative from Florida to the forty-third congress, and was reelected to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Purple, Edwin Ruthven
lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 30, 1831, in Sherburne, N. Y. In 1862 he discovered, in connection with John White and five others, the first gold in Montana, on Willard's creek, a tributary of Beaver Head river. He contributed to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and published a Genealogy. He died Jan. 20, 1879, in New York city.
Purple, Norman Higgins
lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 29, 1808, in Exeter, N. Y. In 1840-42 he was state's attorney for the ninth judicial circuit of Illinois, and from 1845 till 1848 he was associate judge of the supreme court. He published Statutes of Illinois Relating to Real Estate; and A Compilation of the Statutes of Illinois of a General Nature in Force Jan. 1, 1856. These works were adopted by the general assembly. He died Aug. 9, 1863, in Chicago, Ill.
Purple, Samuel Smith
physician, author, was born June 24, 1822, in Lebanon, N. Y. He is a physician of New York city, and the author of The Corpus Luteum; Menstruation; Contributions to the Practice of Midwifery; and Observations on Wounds of the Heart.
Purse, Daniel Gugel
merchant, capitalist, was born Nov. 14, 1839, in Savannah, Ga. After teaching school for a while, he entered commercial life in Savannah. During the civil war he served in the confederate army, and gained the rank of captain of infantry attached to the engineer corps. Previous to 1885 he was a prominent dealer in fertilizers and coal, which enabled him to amass a large fortune. Among his greatest achievements are the development of Tybee Island, almost a sand desert, into a popular summer resort; the construction of the Savannah and Tybee railroad over large reaches of salt marsh, and the introduction into Savannah of both artesian wells and electric lights.
Purves, George Tybout
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1852 in Pennsylvania. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor of New Testament literature at Princeton college from 1892, and the author of The Testimony of Justin Martyr to Early Christianity.
Purviance, Samuel A
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1809, in Butler, Pa. He was a representative from Pennsylvania in the thirty-fifth congress.