Pugh, Wilma J. (Wilma Jennings), 1906-

Wilma J. Pugh was a professor of history. Pugh was born in Evanston, Wyoming in 1906. She graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1926 and earned her Ph. D in history from Cornell University in 1931. She went on to teach history at several colleges and universities, including Stephens College (1931-1935), Lindenwood College (1936-1938), the University of Wyoming (1939-1940), Bates College (1942-1943), and Mount Holyoke College (1943-1971). Pugh was an authority on charity in seventeenth century France. Along with Hans Huth, she was one of the translators and editors of "Tallyrand in America as a Financial Promotor, 1794-1796; Unpublished Letters and Memoirs" (1942). Pugh was also the author of "The Pugh Family History with Brief Accounts of the Fox, Kent, and Martindale Families" (1984) and her autobiography "My Life: From the Rockies to the Ivy League and the Process of Self Realization" (1999).