PUFFER, Clark

1834 - 1912  (78 years)

• Name	PUFFER, Clark
  Birth	6 Feb 1834	Tioga County, NY   [1]
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 7217214 plot 232
  Residence	1860	Barre, WI   [2]
  Residence	1870	Nebraska City, NE   [3]
  Residence	1880	Nebraska City, NE   [4]
  Residence	1910	Riverside, CA   [5]
  _COLOR	11
  Death	21 Apr 1912	San Diego, CA   [6, 7]
  Burial	Riverside, CA   [6]
  	Address: Evergreen Memorial Park and Mausoleum
  Person ID	I7646	Puffers
  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 1	GILLESPIE, Polly A.,   b. CA 1836   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	16 May 1857	Riverside County, CA   [8]
  Children	1. PUFFER, Anna Louise,   b. Mar 1860, WI d. 1923, NE (Age 62 years)   2. PUFFER, Jesse Clark,   b. Sep 1861, WI d. 20 Feb 1937, Riverside, CA (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F13617	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  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)
  Family ID	F10146	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 3	MCALPIN, Mary Elizabeth,   b. 13 Oct 1845, Edinsburg, IN d. 15 May 1922, San Diego, CA (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	26 Apr 1899	San Bernardino County, CA   [8]
  Family ID	F10147	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2024

  
  

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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.

  
  

• 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.