Charles W. Pugsley

(1878-1940) lived in Lincoln. Agronomist, educator, administrator, after serving as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1921 to 1923, he was president of South Dakota State University until 1940 when over six new buildings were added, seven new departments organized, and a student enrollment increase from 763 to 1,294 occurred during a time of economic constraints; previously he had taught for 15 years, including service at the University of Nebraska as director of agricultural extension, and was editor of the weekly Nebraska Farmer for four years. Consult New York Times obituary, December 18, 1940, p. 25 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 1 (1942) 1000 and J. Howard Kramer, South Dakota State University; A History 1884 to 1975 (South Dakota State University, 1975) 73-88.

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