1834 - 1912 (78 years)
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Name |
PUFFER, Clark |
Birth |
6 Feb 1834 |
Tioga County, NY [1] |
Gender |
Male |
FindaGrave |
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Residence |
1860 |
Barre, WI [2] |
Residence |
1870 |
Nebraska City, NE [3] |
Residence |
1880 |
Nebraska City, NE [4] |
Residence |
1910 |
Riverside, CA [5] |
_COLOR |
11 |
_FSFTID |
MR8W-WPS |
Death |
21 Apr 1912 |
San Diego, CA [6, 7] |
Burial |
Riverside, CA [6] |
Address: Evergreen Memorial Park and Mausoleum |
Person ID |
I7646 |
Puffer 062124 |
Last Modified |
7 Jun 2023 |
Father |
PUFFER, Timothy, b. Abt 1811, Glenville, NY d. Bef 1850 (Age < 38 years) |
Mother |
HOWE, Catherine, b. 1813, Schoharie County, NY d. 21 Feb 1892, Chicago, IL (Age 79 years) |
Marriage |
CA 1835 |
Owego, NY |
Family ID |
F164 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 2 |
MCMANUS, Lucy, b. 1842, NY d. 1892, Riverside County, CA (Age 50 years) |
Marriage |
25 Apr 1865 |
La Crosse County, WI [9] |
Children |
| 1. PUFFER, Carrol A., b. Apr 1866, WI d. 12 Jan 1938, Bryn Mawr, CA (Age 71 years) |
| 2. PUFFER, Ira John, b. 17 Feb 1868, MN d. 7 Jan 1892, NE (Age 23 years) |
| 3. PUFFER, Lucy, b. CA 1870, NE d. Bef 1885, NE (Age < 14 years) |
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Family ID |
F10146 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
30 Jun 2024 |
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Photos
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2 Photos |
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Notes |
- According to the 1880 Federal Censuses he is living in McWilliams, NE with his wife, sons, and mother and father in law on a farm.
According to the 1860 Federal Censuses he is living in Barre, WI with his wife Polly on a farm.
"He spent his boyhood on his father's farm and attended the common school during the winter months, and later worked as a farm hand on the various farms in his neighborhood. At the age of twenty he went to La Crosse county, Wis., and purchasing eighty acres of land, carried on general farming for some years. After disposing of this land he moved to Blue Earth county, Minn., and four years later we find him in Otoe county, Neb., where he improved a farm and continued farming until 1893, when he disposed of his holdings and moved to Riverside county, Cal., to enjoy the comforts and prosperity of a favored location of which he had heard naught but the highest praise." History of Riverside County, CA Biographies"
In 1881, he donated a cornfield just west of the Little Nehama River for the town site of Talmage, NE. He hurried to get the corn crop harvested as the German immigrants from Missouri were eager to survey and plan their settlement.
He owned the first newspaper in Talmage, NE, the Talmage Tribune.
He was a prominent orange grower in CA.
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Sources |
- [S1043] History of Riverside County California, page 423.
- [S425] _1860 United States Federal Census.
- [S328] _1870 United States Federal Census.
- [S386] _1880 United States Federal Census.
- [S444] _1910 United States Federal Census.
- [S1271] California Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000.
- [S572] California Death Index, 1905-1939.
- [S341] California County Marriages, 1850-1952.
- [S877] Wisconsin Marriage Records,, 1820-2004.
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