Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Evan PUGH
PUGH, Evan, educator, was born in East Nottingham, Pa., Feb. 29, 1828; son of Lewis and Mary (Hutton) Pugh; grandson of Jesse and Elizabeth (Hudson) Pugh, and of Hiett and Sarah (Pugh) Hutton, and a descendant of John and Jane Pugh, who came from Wales to East Nottingham, Pa., early in the 18th century. He attended the district school; worked as a blacksmith's apprentice, 1844-46; attended the Manual Labor school at Whitestown, N.Y.; taught ad istrict school in East Nottingham, and in 1850 took charge of Jordan Bank seminary, near Oxford, Pa., which he inherited and conducted until 1853. He took a special course in natural and mathematical science and in practical chemistry in the universities of Leipsic, Göttingen,[p.426] Heidelberg and Paris, 1858-57; received the degree Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1856; and took a course in agricultural chemistry in the laboratory of J. B. Lawes at Rothamstead, near London, England, 1857-59, where he demonstrated that plants do not assimilate free nitrogen. He was president of the Farmer's High school near Bellefonte, Pa., 1859-64, which was chartered in 1854, and in 1862 obtained a congressional land grant at the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania, changing its name in 1874 to the Pennsylvania State college. During his presidency he planned and superintended the erection of college buildings, secured endowments, and had special charge of the practical investigations of the students in chemistry, scientific agriculture, mineralogy and geology. He was married, Feb. 4, 1864, to Rebecca Valentine of Beliefonto, Pa. He was a member of various scientific societies in the United States, and was elected a fellow of the Chemical Society of England. He died in Bellefonte, Pa., April 29, 1864.
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