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Pugh, James Lawrence

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 12, 1820, in Burke county, Pa.

He was a presidential elector in 1848, 1856, and 1876, and was elected a representative from Alabama to the thirtysixth congress. In 1861 he was elected to the confederate congress, and was reelected in 1863. He was elected a United States senator from Alabama in 1885 to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected in 1884 and in 1890.

Pugh, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1805 to 1809.

Pugh, John Howard

physician, banker, congressman, was born June 23, 1827, in Chester county, Pa. He moved to Burlington, N. J., and commenced the practice of nis profession in 1854. In 1869 he was elected president of the Mechanics' National bank of Burlington, and was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

Pugh, Samuel J

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 28, 1850, in Greenup county, Ky. He has held successively the offices of city attorney in 1872-73; master commissioner of the circuit court in 1874-80; county attorney in 1878-86; and county judge in 1886-90. He was delegate to the Kentucky constitutional convention in 1890-91, and state senator in 1893-94. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican.

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.

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.

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.