Trujillo, and buried in the chapel of San Antonio in the Franciscan.convent of Guatemala. He wrote "Cartas al Provincial de Guatemala sobre la Expedicion a Teguzgalpa " and Satisfaccion a las razones alegadas contra la expedition a Teguz- galpa, etc.," which are preserved in manuscript in the Franciscan convent of Guatemala.
PUE YRREDON, Juan Martin de (poo-air'-ray-
don'), Argentine statesman, b. in Buenos Ayres
about 1775 ; d. there about 1840. He received his
education in Spain, but returned in the first years
of the 19th century. When the English general,
Sir William Beresford, occupied Buenos Ayres, 27
June, 1806, Pueyrredon refused to recognize the
English authorities, and, leaving the city, began to
organize resistance. On 31 July, with a force of
armed peasants, he attacked the English outworks,
and vas driven back, but his troops surrounded
the city, which capitulated on 11 Aug. In the
second invasion of the English he took a principal
part in the heroic defence of the city, which ended
by the capitulation of Gen. Whitelocke. 7 July. 1807.
He was active in the movement for independence
in 1810, and, after the resignation of the director,
Alvarez, was elected by the congress of Tucuman,
of which he was a member, supreme director of the
Argentine Republic, 3 May, 1816. Together with
San Martin and Belgrano he favored in that con-
gress the election of a monarch, fearing that a re-
publican form of government would continue the
anarchy that existed at that time. During his ail-
ministration he did his utmost to assist San Martin,
governor of Cuyo, in the preparation of his expedi-
tion for the liberation of Chili, and, after the latter's
departure, 17 Jan. ,1817, forwarded re-enforcements
and resources to him. In the same year he obtained
the transfer of the congress to Buenos Ayres, inorder
to have it more under his influence. On 1:-! May
that body began its sessions there, and in 1818 it
decreed the new constitution, which caused general
discontent and several revolts. Pueyrredon sent
forces from Buenos Ayres against the rebellious
provinces, and ordered the army of the north
against them, but the insurgents were victorious,
and Pueyrredon was forced to resign, 10 June, isi'.l.
taking refuge in Montevideo. After a few years
he returned, but he did not again take part in pub-
lic life, ending his days in retirement on his estate,
Bosque Hermoso, near Buenos Ayres.
PUFFER, Reuben, clergyman, b. in Sudbury,
Mass., 7 Jan., 1756 ; d. in Berlin, Mass., 9 Apri'l,
1829. He was graduated at Harvard in 1778,
taught in East Sudbury (now Wayland), Mass.,
studied theology, and became in 1781 pastor of the
Congregational church in Bolton (now Berlin),
which charge he held till his death. Harvard gave
him the degree of D. D. in 1810. He published an
election sermon (1802) ; " Dudleian Lecture at Har-
vard " (1808) ; an Address (4 July, 1810) ; " Conven-
tion Sermon" (1811); and "Two Sermons" (1826).
PUGH, Eliza Lofton (pew), author, b. in Bay-
ou Lafourche, La., in 1841. Her father, Col.
George Phillips, served in the legislature, and
her mother was a daughter of Judge John Rhea.
After graduation at a seminary in New Orleans in
1858, she married William W. Pugh, a planter of
Assumption parish, La. She has written under
the pen-name of " Arria," and is the author of two
novels, " Not a Hero " (New York, 1867), and " In
a Crucible " (Philadelphia, 1871).
PUGH, Ellis, Quaker preacher, b. in the parish
of Dolgellau, Meirioethshire, North Wales, in Au-
gust, 1656: d. in Gwynedd, Pa., 3 Dec.. 171s. Mis
father died before his birth, and his mother soon af-
In his eighteenth year he was converted,
under the preaching of John ap John, a Quaker,
and in 1680 he was approved as a minister. In
1687 he and his family, with many of his acquaint-
ance, settled near the township of Gwynedd. in
Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, Pa..
where he found hundreds of his countrymen, whose
worship was performed in Welsh. He was able to
support his family as a Earmer. but his heart was
engaged in the ministry and he was always warmly
welcomed in the various meetings of his society in
Philadelphia, Chester, and Bucks counties. In
1706 a religious " concern " led him back to Wales,
where he remained until 1708, when he returned to
his family and resumed his ministerial labors. He
wrote, for the most part in his last sickness, a book
entitled " Anerch i'r Cymru " that is, " A saluta-
tion to the Britains, to call them from the many
things to the one thing needful, for the saving of
their souls." This book was afterward printed by
Andrew Bradford (Philadelphia, 1721), and is the
first Welsh book that is known to have been
printed in this country. So popular and well re-
ceived was this dying testimony that in 1727 an
English edition was published, the translation hav-
ing been made by Rowland Ellis (1727).
PUGH, Evan, chemist, b. in East Nottingham,
Pa., 29 Feb., 1828 ; d. in Bellefonte, Pa.. 29 April,
1864. He was early apprenticed to the black-
smith's trade, but at the age of nineteen bought
out the residue of his time and studied at the
Whitestown, N. Y., seminary, meanwhile supporting
himself by manual labor. Falling heir to a small
property in his native town, including a school, he
taught there successfully for several years. In
1853 he disposed of these interests and went abroad,
where for four years he studied natural science
and mathematics in the universities of Leipsic,
Gottingen, Heidelberg, and Paris, receiving in
1856 the degree of Ph. D. at the University of
Gottingen. After this he devoted attention to
agricultural chemistry, and made in England a
series of valuable determinations of nitrogen, show-
ing that plants do not assimilate free nitrogen. In
1859 he returned to the United States and accepted
the presidency of Pennsylvania agricultural col-
lege. He at once organized a new scheme of in-
struction, planned and superintended the erection
of the college buildings, secured endowments, and,
besides taking the general guidance of the institu-
tion, had special charge of the practical investiga-
tions of the students in chemistry, scientific agri-
culture, mineralogy, and geology. This office he
held until his death. Dr. Pugh was a fellow of the
London chemical society, a member of scientific
societies in the United States, and contributed to
scientific literature.
PUGH, George Ellis, senator, b. in Cincinnati,
Ohio, 28 Nov., 1822; d. there, 19 July, 1876. After
his graduation at Miami university in 1840 he
practised law until the beginning of the Mexican
war, in which he took part as captain of the 4th
Ohio regiment, and also as aide to Gen. Joseph
Lane. In 1848-'49 he served in the legislature, and
he was city solicitor of Cincinnati in 1850, and
attorney-general of Ohio in 1851. He was elected
to the U.S. senate as a Democrat, serving from 3
Dec., 1855 till 3 March, 1861, and was a member of
the committees on public lands, and the judiciary.
He was a delegate to the National Democratic convention
in Charleston, S.C., in 1860, and made a
speech in reply to William L. Yancey. One of his
ablest efforts was his appeal in behalf of Clement L. Vallandigham
(q.v.) in 1863, in the habeas corpus
proceeding involving the question as to the
power and duty of the judge to relieve Mr. Vallan-
