PUFFER, Ervin Daniel

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• Residence: 1906, Faribault, MN

Ervin married COOLEY, Florence E. on 14 Nov 1878 in MN. Florence (daughter of COOLEY, Dr. Edson and MILLER, Mary L.) was born on 27 Apr 1854 in Beloit, WI; died on 2 Oct 1907 in Faribault, MN; was buried on 9 Oct 1907 in Faribault, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. PUFFER, William was born in Mar 1880 in MN; died before 1900.
2. PUFFER, Chester Cooley was born on 16 Feb 1881 in Faribault, MN; died on 24 Oct 1925 in Faribault, MN; was buried on 24 Oct 1925 in Faribault, MN.
3. PUFFER, Infants died in 1895 in WI; was buried on 1 Jun 1895 in Beloit, WI.

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• Name: Ervin Puffer
• _COLOR: 11
• Arrival: 1842, Mount Pleasant, WI
• Birth: CA 1850, NY
• Residence: 1870, Racine, WI
• Occupation: 1880; Farmer

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He settled in 1849 on a farm at Racine, WI.

A member of Free Will Baptist Church, Mygatt's Corners, WI

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He was, at first, a carpenter, taking over his father's business. He initially bought 40 acres and when he died there were over 100 acres under cultivation.

Ezra married DICKINSON, Rhoda A. on 18 Dec 1849 in Racine, WI. Rhoda was born about 1828 in NY; died on 4 Feb 1856 in WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Allen Puffer
• _COLOR: 11

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He lived for some years at Villenova, Chautauqua Co., NY and in the fall of 1842 settled in Racine, WI. In 1876 he was living on the 227 acre farm on which he settled in 1844. He was a pioneer in WI arriving in 1842.

He was a carpenter and joiner.

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Daniel married WRIGHT, Aletheia on 27 Jan 1825 in Villenova, NY. Aletheia (daughter of WRIGHT, Edmund and WRIGHT, Sophia) was born on 6 Apr 1805 in Windham, NY; died on 6 Jun 1886 in WI. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Althea
• _COLOR: 2
• Residence: 1880, Mount Pleasant, WI

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She is living with her daughter Olive in Fremont, IA in 1885.

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• Immigration: 1812, NY

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He removed to Coleraine (NY). He was the first to buy land in Villenova, Chautaugua County, New York, his deed being dated Oct. 28, 1809, for lots 19, 27 and 36, and he took his family to what was then the wilderness. They endured much hardship. He was the first supervisor of that town, 1823, and school commissioner 1823-4; justice of the peace for many terms. He was a farmer, mechanic and land surveyor, and laid out most of the highways and many of the farms in Villenova. He was at Hanover, from which Villenova was set off, when he was appointed guardian of his four youngest children, in 1815, by the Worcester County probate court. In 1843 he removed to Bristol in Northern Indiana and died there.

He was a Senior Warden in the Masons

He "was a cultured man, of literary and scientific tastes. He was a first-class surveyor, and ran many of the lines, laid out the early roads, was the first justice of the peace and drew the legal papers called for in the early days. He moved to Indiana in the early forties."

Ezra married HAYNES, Mary on 2 Jan 1793 in Sudbury, MA. Mary (daughter of HAYNES, Lt. Joshua Sr. and PUFFER, Susannah) was born on 10 May 1769 in Sudbury, MA; died on 4 Nov 1812 in Villenova, NY; was buried in Balcom Corners, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edmund married WRIGHT, Sophia. Sophia was born on 14 Apr 1765; died on 25 Jun 1840 in NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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