Biographical Sketch of Evan PUGH (1828-1864); Chester County, PA

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Source: "The Genealogy of the Smedley Family" Cope 1902.

Evan Pugh, Ph.D., F.C.S., b.East Nottingham,Chester Co., Pa., 
2-29-1828; d. Bellefonte,4-29-1864; buried at Union Cemetery;
son of Lewis Pugh and Mary Hutton, of Chester Co. After 
attending the Manual Labor School, at Whitestown, N.Y., he 
taught a district school one winter, and then, about 1850 
opened a boarding school in East Nottingham, which he named 
Jordan Bank Seminary. In the fall of 1853 he gave up his 
school and went to Europe, where he spent four years in the 
Universities of Leipsic, Gottingen, Heidelberg, and in Paris,
and receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Gottingen.
Early in 1857 he entered the laboratory of J B Lawes, the 
well-known agricultural chemist of England, and there spent 
two years; during which he prepared valuable papers, which 
were read before the British Association for the Advancement 
of Science, and which procured him an election as a Fellow of 
the Chemical Society of England. Returning home in the autumn 
of 1859, he assumed the presidency of the Farmer's High School,
near Bellefonte, Pa., the name of which was afterwards changed 
to that of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania. He had 
visited and carefully studied the chief agricultural academies 
and schools of Europe, and his idea of what an American 
agricultural college should be was as definite as it was 
comprehensive and just. For over five years he labored 
untiringly in establishing the college on a broad and enduring 
basis, when he was suddenly cut off in the prime of life, 
leaving a reputation for ripe scholarship, genial temper, and 
high-toned purity and rectitude in thought, word and deed.



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