Puffer Genealogy

PUFFER, Stephen Bailey[1, 2, 3]

Male 1843 - 1921  (77 years)


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  • Name PUFFER, Stephen Bailey 
    Birth 23 Jan 1843  Tewksbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
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    Ref# 133  [3
    Residence 1920  Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    _COLOR 11 
    Death 1921  MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Lowell Cemetery 
    Person ID I18594  Puffers
    Last Modified 15 Feb 2022 

    Father PUFFER, Stephen,   b. 1798, Sudbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Sep 1842, Tewksbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Mother GERRY, Eliza Ann,   b. Dec 1806, Sudbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jul 1857, Shirley, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Marriage 19 Feb 1822  Sudbury, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7
    Family ID F8563  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family HAMBLET, Edna Adelaide,   b. 25 Feb 1852, Dracut, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1935, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 15 Sep 1870  Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9
    Residence 1920  Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • The census enumerator spelled the family name as Pufer and it looks like "Payer".
    Children 
     1. PUFFER, Helen Adelaide,   b. 17 Jun 1871, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1932, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
     2. PUFFER, Elsie Maud,   b. 30 Jan 1877, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Apr 1952, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     3. PUFFER, Mary Viola,   b. 16 Oct 1879, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Oct 1900, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 20 years)
     4. PUFFER, Theodore Stephen,   b. 30 Jul 1888, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 May 1943, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
     5. PUFFER, Bertha Ruth,   b. 3 Dec 1890, Lowell, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1968, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    Family ID F3053  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

  • Photos
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    stephen bailey puffer 1843 gs.jpg

  • Notes 
    • He moved with his family to Shirley, MA in 1846, but, after the death of his mother in 1857, returned to Lowell.

      From 1867 to 1879 he was in the wholesale provision business in Lowell and during the twenty years following was manager of the Criterion Knitting Co., and largely interested in real estate in Lowell. During this time he served eight years in the board of alderman of the City of Lowell. He is a member of St. Anne's Church, and a thirty-second degree Mason. His home is at 942 Middlesex Ave., Lowell.

      In Aug of 1884 he was reported missing by his friends in NYC. He was found at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in NYC. He seemed to have left his friends at "Paul Bauer's" walking out the back door and proceeded to enjoy himself in NYC. When he had "enough fun" he turned up at his hotel. (The Brooklyn Union, Brooklyn, NY, 2 Aug 1884, page 4.)

      In 1920 he owned a tree nursery

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 83, 125-126.

    2. [S466] _Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Database online.
      Record for Stephen T Puffer

    3. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 83, 125.

    4. [S306] _1920 United States Federal Census.

    5. [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page 253.

    6. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 83.

    7. [S210] Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910.

    8. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 126.

    9. [S541] Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915.