FIELD, Robert Goodwin

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• Residence: 1940, Berlin, MA

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Robert married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Milit-Beg: 7 May 1918
• Milit-End: 7 Feb 1919

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A florist

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WWI, Veteran US ARMY, 1918-1919

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Harris married PUFFER, Marjorie on 19 Sep 1931 in Berlin, MA. Marjorie (daughter of PUFFER, Rev. Joseph Adams and RICE, Emily Hope) was born on 30 Aug 1912 in Needham, MA; died on 28 Oct 1999 in McMinnville, OR; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the autobiography of Marjorie Puffer Field:

"On the way home from my high school senior reception, Harris asked me if I would accept a diamond on my 18th birthday.  What a thrill!  Oh, how could I wait until August 30th and keep it a secret.  It was just as well that I was leaving the next morning for Eagle Camp.  Those ten weeks would seem endless to me now.  For high school graduation he had given me a beautiful, silver necklace with some family, Egyptian scarabs for a present.  My one request, and a hard one for him, was to tell my parents before he gave me the diamond.  I knew they were not going to approve of our engagement.   Harris gave me my diamond ring as we sat on the rocks beside Lake Champlain on August 30, 1930.

What a tempest was stirred up when I came home wearing that ring.  My two maiden aunts, Fran and Lucy, were my main stays in those hard days.  They highly approved of Harris and finally convinced Mother to accept the fact that I was grown up and not the student that my sisters were.

Even Aunt Lucy told me she wished she were younger so she could try for Harris, as she liked him so much.  Grandpa Rice knew Harris before his death in 1927 and thought he was a fine young man.  To me, Harris was as near as fine a man as my grandfather, who always was my idol."

She was town clerk for Berlin and later worked as assistant town clerk for 23 years, in an office in her home. She moved to West Newbury, Mass., in 1968. In 1982, she moved first to Corvallis and then to McMinnville.

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Charles married GOODWIN, Caroline E.. Caroline was born in 1871 in MA; died in 1948 in MA; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Joseph Puffer
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• Birth: 13 Feb 1872, Harrington, ME
• Residence: 1880, Harrington, ME
• Degree: 1896, Middletown, CT; B.A.; Address:
  Wesleyan University
• Degree: 1900, Boston, MA; B.S.T.; Address:
  Boston University
• Death: Bef 1972, ME

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He entered Wesleyan University in 1892 and graduated in 1896 (A.B.); graduated from Boston University in 1900 (S.T.B.) and was a student at Clark University 1905-7. From 1902-06 he was principal of the Lyman School for Boys, a state institution at Westborough, MA. He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian Church of Gardner, MA in 1905 and remained there three years. From 1908 to 1912 he was pastor of the First Church of Needham, MA. From 1910 to the present time he has been director of the Beacon Vocational Bureau of Boston, 8 Beacon Street. He resides at Needham, MA. He's widely known as a lecturer on sociology. He is the author of "The Boy and His Gang" (1912); "Vocational Guidance" (1913). In 1915 he was appointed Lecturer for the University of IL.

Teacher, Harrington, Maine, 1888-1889. Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church, Biddeford Pool, Maine, 1900-1901. Principal high school, Richmond, Maine, 1902.

Principal Massachusetts Industrial School for Boys, Westboro, Massachusetts, 1902-1905. Pastor First Unitarian Church, Gardner, Massachusetts, 1905-1908, First Parish Church, Needham, Massachusetts, 1908-1911. Probation officer Boston Juvenile Court, 1907-1910.

Director Beacon Vocation Bureau, Boston, 1910-1918. Instructor teachers’ institute, 1910-1913. Lecturer in farmers’ institute, University of Illinois, 1913-1914.

Lecturer on vocational problems, normal schools and colls., 1914-1918. Field secretary, National Public Welfare League, Kansas City, Missouri, 1918-1920. Associate editor of Public Welfare, 1918-1920.

Lecturer and vocational secretary Army Young Men’s Christian Association, Eastern, Central and Southern departments, 1918-1919. Field secretary National Child Welfare Association, New York, 1920-1921, of National Public Welfare League, Kansas City, Missouri, 1921-1923. Field director Co-operative Club International, Kansas City, Missouri Dir Beacon Boys’ Bureau, Boston.

Author: The Boy and His Gang, 1912. Vocational Guidance, 1914. Editor of Vocational Guidance Series, 1915.

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Joseph married RICE, Emily Hope on 1 Oct 1903 in Boston, MA. Emily (daughter of RICE, Willis and FAY, Harriet Susan) was born on 5 Jan 1874 in Berlin, MA; died on 17 Nov 1962 in Washington, DC; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: William Ross Puffer
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• Birth: 19 Jun 1832, Columbia, ME
• Death: Bef 1932

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He worked in the saw mills and lumber camps until six months before he came of age, when he bought his time and entered Cherryfield Academy. He continued his studies at various academies for the next five years, teaching in winters. For thirty years he taught school at Washington County, ME., and was one of the best known and most successful teachers in that section. He taught in Columbia Falls, Addison, Harrington, Mill bridge, Cherryfield, Josesport and Machias. He was a prominent leader in the Methodist church, a great reader and somewhat independent thinker.

"Henry another of John Sr. sons older than Taphenus lived here from 1867-1871 also lumbering and mill business. Then he turned into a student and became a teacher and a preacher and spent his life teaching and preaching in the surrounding towns. He taught 40 terms in the same school (Turkey Hill) going toward Geo. Norton's place on the right side of the road in old school house mother attended." Hazel Bradeen

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William married COFFIN, Susanna Wood in 1868 in ME. Susanna (daughter of COFFIN, Joseph Adams and COFFIN, Anna Nash) was born on 10 Oct 1842 in Columbia, ME; died on 27 Jul 1897 in Columbia, ME; was buried in Harrington, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Susan Ann O'Brien
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• Birth: 1843, Columbia, ME
• Residence: 1880, Harrington, ME
• Death: Bef 1943

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To get an education she went across the state to the State Normal School at Gorham about 1860, and was the first woman of her native town to acquire a normal school education. She taught for about two years in her native village, Harrington, ME, before her marriage. She was a leader in church work and did her own thinking,. In religion she was a Baptist. Like her brothers, she had good business ability and ran a general store for several years.

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Willis married FAY, Harriet Susan on 3 Apr 1873 in Millbury, MA. Harriet was born on 23 Feb 1850 in Berlin, MA; died on 13 Sep 1923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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