Edward Fox Pugh

Lawyer; born in Doylestown, Pa., May 30, 1847; son of John Blackwell Pugh and Elizabeth Sergeant (Fox) Pugh. He received his education in Saunder's Military Institute, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania as A.B., 1867, A.M., 1870. He married in Conshohocken, Pa., April 27, 1882, Alice Hannum Cresson, and they have one son: Rev. Walter Cresson Pugh, born in 1883. He has practised law, chiefly in Philadelphia; is a member of the bars of Bucks and Montgomery Counties, Philadelphia, and the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, and the United States. He is trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Pennsylvania; and of the Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania; one of the Board of Control of the Diocesan Library, and one of the Board of Council of the Free and Open Church Association. He is also a member of the Law Association of Philadelphia, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He has traveled in Europe and the United States. He is author of: Memoirs of Edward Fox, 1888; Forms of Procedure in Admiralty, 1890, 1903: and is editor of Dunlap's Book of Legal Forms, 1886, 1896; and contributor to American Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Residences: The Wesley, Wayne, Pa., and 1230 Spruce Street, Philadelphia. Office: 419 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 518-159.

Submitted by Nancy.