PUFFER, Josiah Osgood^[1]

1814 - 1895  (80 years)

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• Name	PUFFER, Josiah Osgood
  Birth	22 Oct 1814	Sunderland, MA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  FindaGrave	FindAGrave Memorial 98141488
  Ref#	168  [1]
  _COLOR	11
  Death	16 Mar 1895	Spring Prairie, WI   [4]
  Burial	Spring Prairie, WI
  	Address: Hickory Grove Cemetery
  Person ID	I22394	Puffers
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	PUFFER, Dea. Samuel T. III,   b. 28 May 1770, Sudbury, MA d. 30 Apr 1845, Sunderland, MA (Age 74 years)
  Mother	OSGOOD, Eunice,   b. 1 May 1774, Wendell, MA d. 28 Feb 1826, Sunderland, MA (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	CA 1810	MA
  Family ID	F9282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	WHITMORE, Hannah Montague Gunn,   b. 22 Mar 1820, MA d. 11 Feb 1862, Spring Prairie, WI (Age 41 years)
  Marriage	29 Apr 1839	Sunderland, MA   [2]
  Children	1. PUFFER, Chenery,   b. 7 Jan 1840, Spring Prairie, WI d. 22 Mar 1912, Chicago, IL (Age 72 years)   2. PUFFER, Samuel Jesse,   b. 10 Dec 1841, Spring Prairie, WI d. 25 Nov 1880, Chillicothe, IL (Age 38 years)   3. PUFFER, Charles W.,   b. 14 Aug 1846, Spring Prairie, WI d. 15 Aug 1847, Spring Prairie, WI (Age 1 year)   4. PUFFER, Josiah Quincy,   b. 19 Feb 1849, Spring Prairie, WI d. 30 Oct 1853, Spring Prairie, WI (Age 4 years)   5. PUFFER, Dwight Eugene,   b. 29 Jun 1851, Spring Prairie, WI d. 22 Jul 1916, Minneapolis, MN (Age 65 years)   6. PUFFER, George Deleraine,   b. 5 Jun 1853, Spring Prairie, WI d. 20 Mar 1928, Waukesha County, WI (Age 74 years)   7. PUFFER, Lewis Arthur,   b. 25 May 1855, Spring Prairie, WI d. 3 Nov 1928, Colorado Springs, CO (Age 73 years)   8. PUFFER, Herbert Montague,   b. 23 Jan 1859, WI d. 24 Sep 1921, Minneapolis, MN (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F9295	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	WHITMORE, Mary,   b. 23 Oct 1813, Sunderland, MA d. 31 Jan 1897, Walworth County, WI (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	25 Aug 1862	Sunderland, MA   [2]
  Family ID	F9296	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  When a young man he removed to Spring Prairie, WI, and was one of the pioneers of that town. He followed farming for a time, and then engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes at Spring Prairie, continuing in this business to the time of his death. He was a deacon of the Baptist Church of Spring Prairie, a town clerk, and justice of the peace at Warkworth. His home was used as a stop in the Underground Railroad and hosted the first woman to make it to Canada via Wisconsin. Her name was Caroline Quarlls.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 98, 153. [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 153. [S215] Wisconsin Vital Record Index, pre-1907. [S372] Wisconsin Deaths, 1820-1907.