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132 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 (q.v.) in 1863, in the habeas corpus proceeding involving the question as to the power and duty of the judge to relieve Mr.