Puffer Genealogy

PUFFER, William Henry

PUFFER, William Henry[1, 2, 3]

Male 1832 - 1912  (80 years)

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  • Name PUFFER, William Henry 
    Birth 1832  Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Birth 19 Jun 1832  Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5
    Baptism 29 Sep 1858  Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 17 Dec 1912  Harrington, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Death Bef 1932 
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    Ref# 336  [2
    Name William Ross Puffer 
    _COLOR 11 
    Burial Harrington, ME Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Forest Hill Cemetery 
    Person ID I32841  Puffers
    Last Modified 27 Sep 2021 

    Father PUFFER, John Sr.,   b. 29 Nov 1793, Canton, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1877, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years) 
    Mother STANWOOD, Catherine Redman,   b. 6 May 1797, Gloucester, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jun 1886, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1816  Boston, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7
    Family ID F10604  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family COFFIN, Susanna Wood,   b. 10 Oct 1842, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jul 1897, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years) 
    Marriage 1868  ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Residence 1880  Harrington, ME Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. PUFFER, William Henry Jr.,   b. 1869, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Aug 1948, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     2. PUFFER, Rev. Joseph Adams,   b. CA 1872, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Jul 1958, Berlin, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     3. PUFFER, Elijah Elmore,   b. 1878, Columbia, ME Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1888, Columbia Falls, ME Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 10 years)
     4. PUFFER, Maureen Ann,   b. 27 Apr 1888, Olmsted County, MN Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1988 (Age < 99 years)
    Family ID F10629  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

  • Photos
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  • Notes 
    • 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

  • Sources 
    1. [S11] Hazel Smith Bradeen, Aunt Hazel's letter's/notes to Grampa French (C.K. W. French).

    2. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 179, 277.

    3. [S386] _1880 United States Federal Census, Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Harrington, Washington, Maine; Roll: 490; Family History Film: 1254490; Page: 429B; Enumeration District: 192; Image: 0440.
      Record for Susan Puffer

    4. [S638] Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, page 476.

    5. [S638] Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, page 477.

    6. [S638] Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, pages 149, 150.

    7. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 178.

    8. [S328] _1870 United States Federal Census.

    9. [S638] Early Pleasant River Families of Washington County, Maine, page 98.