Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Pennock PUSEY
He settled in St. Paul, Minn. in 1854; was asst. sec. of state, 1862-1872, and private secretary to Gov. Pillsbury, 1876-1882. Later lived in Wilmington, Del.
Pennock Pusey was born in Wilmington, Delaware, September 6, 1825; and died in the same city, February 16, 1903. He came to St. Paul in 1854, and at first engaged in real estate business. From 1862 to 1872 he was assistant secretary of the State of Minnesota, and during the last three years of the same term he was commissioner of statistics. He was the first state insurance commissioner,
1872-73; and from 1874 to 1882 was the governor's private secretary, serving thus through the terms of Governors Davis and Pillsbury. After a residence of about thirty-five years in St. Paul, Mr. Pusey returned to Wilmington, Del., and there spent the remainder of his life in literary work and as editor of the Publications of the Delaware Historical Society. He was elected a life member of the Minnesota Historical Society, February 10, 1879.
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