OBIT: James PUGH, Atty., 1913, native of Somerset County, PA

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Pugh, James

JAMES S. PUGH ANSWERS LAST CALL

Attorney James L. Pugh, one of the oldest members of the Somerset County Bar, 
passed away at 10:30 on Saturday morning, at the Markleton Sanitorium, at the 
age of 68 years. He has been ill for a long time with a complication of 
diseases. The body was brought to Somerset on Sunday. The funeral services were 
held on Monday, interment in the Union Cemetery. The deceased was a son of James 
and Rachel Pugh, and was born in Somerset Township. After securing a common 
school education, he graduated from the Millersville State Norman School, and 
later graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan. He was 
admitted to the bar in this county in 1874. He served three years as District 
Attorney, two terms as County Superintendent of Schools and was in the 
Legislature two terms. Attorney Pugh was a veteran of the Civil War, having 
served two enlistments. The first was in Co. E 133rd Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry, and the second was in the Fifth Heavy Artillery. At the battle of 
Gettysburg he was wounded three times. He was also in the battle of 
Chancellorsville, but escaped injury there. The deceased was never married. He 
is survived by one brother, the Rev. B. F. Pugh, of Ottawa, Kan., and two 
sisters, Mrs. Oliver Knepper and Mrs. Rose Anne Saylor, both of Somerset. He was 
an uncle of District Attorney Virgil R. Saylor. Mr. Pugh was a prominent member 
of the local Masonic order.

[NOTE: Name is listed as both James S. and James L.]

Meyersdale Commercial, July 17, 1913