Puffer Genealogy
PUFFER, Daniel Jacob[1, 2, 3]
1852 - 1911 (58 years)-
Name PUFFER, Daniel Jacob Birth 9 Dec 1852 Medford, MA 
[2, 3] Gender Male FindaGrave Ref# 246 [3] Residence Medford, MA [2] _COLOR 11 Death 22 May 1911 Medford, MA [4, 5, 6] Burial Medford, MA [4, 6] Address:
Oak Grove CemeteryPerson ID I33443 Puffers Last Modified 17 Sep 2021
Father PUFFER, Alvin Davis, b. 14 Nov 1819, Bolton, MA d. 22 Dec 1906, Medford, MA (Age 87 years) Mother BALCOM, Sarah Mercer, b. 5 Apr 1825, Sudbury, MA d. 11 Feb 1861, Somerville, MA (Age 35 years) Marriage 22 Aug 1847 New York, NY [7] Family ID F9828 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MANNING, Nellie Fuller, b. 22 Oct 1857, Lynnfield, MA d. 27 Oct 1932, Medford, MA (Age 75 years) Marriage 24 Oct 1877 New Harbor, ME [8, 9] Children 1. PUFFER, Belle Shaw, b. 11 Jun 1880, MA d. 18 Jan 1957, MA (Age 76 years)2. PUFFER, Baby Girl, b. 26 Oct 1891, Medford, MA d. 26 May 1892, Medford, MA (Age 0 years)3. PUFFER, Beth, b. 30 Nov 1901, Medford, MA d. 30 Nov 1901, Medford, MA (Age 0 years)Family ID F8089 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2024
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Notes - He died at home. He received his education in the public schools of Somerville. His parents moved to Medford when he was sixteen. At the age of eighteen he entered the employ of his father and he continued in the manufacture of soda fountains to the time of his death. He became partner of his father and two brothers in the firm of A.D. Puffer & Sons Manufacturing Company, and when the old firm was amalgamated in the American Soda Fountain Company, he became director and manager of that corporation. At the expiration of the time for which the amalgamation was made, the Puffer interests withdrew and established the Puffer Manufacturing Company, of which Daniel J. Puffer was the president to the end of his life. The new company was successful from the beginning. The offices are now at 51 Portland Street, Boston. In 1906 a tract of 16 acres w as acquired at Winchester and the present manufacturing plant was built there. The buildings have an aggregate floor space of four acres. It is the largest plant for the manufacture of soda water apparatus in the world. Luther W. Puffer was treasurer of the new corporation and his son Luther W. Puffer, Jr., secretary.
From an obituary in the June 1911, number of "Soda Fountain" we quote: " He had spent his whole life in the soda fountain business, entering upon a business career as a boy of 18, and continuing actively in it for more than a third of century, almost up to the day of his death. He has seen the soda water fountain business develop from small proportions to its present greatness, and he had had no inconsiderable part in its development. he was a man of original and practical ideas and of marked executive ability. Mr. Puffer's death occurred most unexpectedly. But a few days before he had returned from a fishing trip in Maine, and he looked and felt in excellent health. He was stricken with heart failure on the afternoon of Saturday, May 20, at his home. He had spent the forenoon at his office in Boston, apparently as well as usual."
He was prominent in the Masonic bodies of Medford, one of the founders of the Medford Club, the leading social organization of the city.
The funeral was held at his late home on Turell Ave., Medford, and was largely attended. Rev. George M. Butler of Mystic Congregational Church officiated. A large delegation of Masons and employees of the Puffer Manufacturing Company attended. The interment was in Oak Grove cemetery.
Upon his death, the home in which he lived, was bequeathed to the Medford Home for Aged Men and Women. Source: The Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts)28 Oct 1932, Page 25
- He died at home. He received his education in the public schools of Somerville. His parents moved to Medford when he was sixteen. At the age of eighteen he entered the employ of his father and he continued in the manufacture of soda fountains to the time of his death. He became partner of his father and two brothers in the firm of A.D. Puffer & Sons Manufacturing Company, and when the old firm was amalgamated in the American Soda Fountain Company, he became director and manager of that corporation. At the expiration of the time for which the amalgamation was made, the Puffer interests withdrew and established the Puffer Manufacturing Company, of which Daniel J. Puffer was the president to the end of his life. The new company was successful from the beginning. The offices are now at 51 Portland Street, Boston. In 1906 a tract of 16 acres w as acquired at Winchester and the present manufacturing plant was built there. The buildings have an aggregate floor space of four acres. It is the largest plant for the manufacture of soda water apparatus in the world. Luther W. Puffer was treasurer of the new corporation and his son Luther W. Puffer, Jr., secretary.
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Sources - [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 139, 207-208.
- [S361] U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925.
Birth date: 20 Jun 1844 Birth place: Medford, Massachusetts Residence date: Residence place: Said Medford, Massachusetts - [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 139, 207.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 207.
- [S747] US Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930.
- [S740] _Newspaper Announcement, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, 24 May 1911, Page 6.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 139.
- [S480] Maine Marriages 1771-1907, FHL microfilm 10557.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 208.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 139, 207-208.
