COFFIN, Joseph Adams

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Joseph married COFFIN, Anna Nash on 7 Dec 1836 in Harrington, ME. Anna (daughter of COFFIN, Deacon David and NASH, Hannah) was born on 20 Feb 1814 in Harrington, ME; died on 1 Jan 1909 in Harrington, ME; was buried in Harrington, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Susan Ann O'Brien
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• Birth: 1843, Columbia, ME
• Residence: 1880, Harrington, ME
• Death: Bef 1943

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To get an education she went across the state to the State Normal School at Gorham about 1860, and was the first woman of her native town to acquire a normal school education. She taught for about two years in her native village, Harrington, ME, before her marriage. She was a leader in church work and did her own thinking,. In religion she was a Baptist. Like her brothers, she had good business ability and ran a general store for several years.

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Susanna married PUFFER, William Henry in 1868 in ME. William (son of PUFFER, John Sr. and STANWOOD, Catherine Redman) was born in 1832 in Columbia, ME; was christened on 29 Sep 1858 in Columbia, ME; died on 17 Dec 1912 in Harrington, ME; was buried in Harrington, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Betsey married SMITH, Gilman Plaisted in 1872. Gilman (son of SMITH, William N. and WASS, Emma H.) was born on 20 Oct 1845 in Jonesport, ME; died on 18 Jul 1914 in Bangor, ME; was buried in Harrington, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A ship builder in Harrington, ME. He had five children.

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Joseph married KNOWLES, Josephine Boneparte in 1875 in ME. Josephine was born in Dec 1852 in Addison, ME; died in 1922 in Machias, ME; was buried in Machias, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: William Puffer
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• Birth: 10 Jun 1869, Columbia, ME
• Residence: 1880, Harrington, ME
• Death: Bef 1969, ME

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William married SMITH, Inez Mabel on 26 Sep 1893 in Bar Harbor, ME. Inez (daughter of SMITH, Freeman Doyle and DAVIS, Julia Ida) was born on 22 Dec 1874 in Whitneyville, ME; died on 12 Mar 1965 in Bar Harbor, ME; was buried in Bar Harbor, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Joseph Puffer
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• Birth: 13 Feb 1872, Harrington, ME
• Residence: 1880, Harrington, ME
• Degree: 1896, Middletown, CT; B.A.; Address:
  Wesleyan University
• Degree: 1900, Boston, MA; B.S.T.; Address:
  Boston University
• Death: Bef 1972, ME

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He entered Wesleyan University in 1892 and graduated in 1896 (A.B.); graduated from Boston University in 1900 (S.T.B.) and was a student at Clark University 1905-7. From 1902-06 he was principal of the Lyman School for Boys, a state institution at Westborough, MA. He was ordained pastor of the Unitarian Church of Gardner, MA in 1905 and remained there three years. From 1908 to 1912 he was pastor of the First Church of Needham, MA. From 1910 to the present time he has been director of the Beacon Vocational Bureau of Boston, 8 Beacon Street. He resides at Needham, MA. He's widely known as a lecturer on sociology. He is the author of "The Boy and His Gang" (1912); "Vocational Guidance" (1913). In 1915 he was appointed Lecturer for the University of IL.

Teacher, Harrington, Maine, 1888-1889. Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church, Biddeford Pool, Maine, 1900-1901. Principal high school, Richmond, Maine, 1902.

Principal Massachusetts Industrial School for Boys, Westboro, Massachusetts, 1902-1905. Pastor First Unitarian Church, Gardner, Massachusetts, 1905-1908, First Parish Church, Needham, Massachusetts, 1908-1911. Probation officer Boston Juvenile Court, 1907-1910.

Director Beacon Vocation Bureau, Boston, 1910-1918. Instructor teachers’ institute, 1910-1913. Lecturer in farmers’ institute, University of Illinois, 1913-1914.

Lecturer on vocational problems, normal schools and colls., 1914-1918. Field secretary, National Public Welfare League, Kansas City, Missouri, 1918-1920. Associate editor of Public Welfare, 1918-1920.

Lecturer and vocational secretary Army Young Men’s Christian Association, Eastern, Central and Southern departments, 1918-1919. Field secretary National Child Welfare Association, New York, 1920-1921, of National Public Welfare League, Kansas City, Missouri, 1921-1923. Field director Co-operative Club International, Kansas City, Missouri Dir Beacon Boys’ Bureau, Boston.

Author: The Boy and His Gang, 1912. Vocational Guidance, 1914. Editor of Vocational Guidance Series, 1915.

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Joseph married RICE, Emily Hope on 1 Oct 1903 in Boston, MA. Emily (daughter of RICE, Willis and FAY, Harriet Susan) was born on 5 Jan 1874 in Berlin, MA; died on 17 Nov 1962 in Washington, DC; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elmore E. Puffer
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• Birth: 15 Mar 1878, Columbia, ME
• Residence: 1880, Harrington, ME
• Death: Bef 1978

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• Residence: 1900, Eden, ME
• Residence: 1910, Eden, ME
• Residence: 5 Jun 1917, Bar Harbor, ME; This WW I draft registration shows Earl as married and working as a chauffer for W.H. Tibbets of Bar
• Residence: 1918, Hancock, ME
• Residence: 1920, Bar Harbor, ME
• Residence: 18 Apr 1930, Bar Harbor, ME; Earl is shown in this census as a "Truck Driver".

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According to his 1918 WWI Draft Registration Card he was a chauffeur for W. H. Tibbetts, Bar Harbor, ME

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Earl married CUNNINGHAM, Florence on 3 Sep 1916 in Bar Harbor, ME. Florence (daughter of CUNNINGHAM, James Roscoe and DAVIS, Hattie F.) was born in 1893 in Eastport, ME; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Earl married THOMAS, Lenore Estelle on 18 May 1929 in Bar Harbor, ME. Lenore (daughter of THOMAS, Edward Pettengill and HADLEY, Orra Frances) was born on 22 Dec 1901 in Bar Harbor, ME; died on 16 Oct 1984 in Bar Harbor, ME; was buried in Bar Harbor, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ida married MORSE, Guy Alton on 10 Nov 1918 in Bar Harbor, ME. Guy (son of MORSE, Fairfield Augustus and CHAMBERS, Eliza Jane) was born on 25 Apr 1899 in Machias, ME; died on 29 Mar 1969 in Bar Harbor, ME; was buried in Machias, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ida married HIGGINS, Lionel S. on 23 Feb 1929 in Bar Harbor, ME. Lionel was born on 27 Jun 1888; died on 11 May 1974 in ME; was buried in Bar Harbor, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• SSN issued: MA; 022-07-4680
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• Residence: 1918, Hancock, ME

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According to his 1918 WWI Draft Registration Card he was a chauffeur to E. G. Fabbri in Eden, ME. In 1930 he was a truck driver for a grain company.

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Joseph married DARRAH, Ruth Eaton on 10 Dec 1919 in Portsmouth, NH, and was divorced before 1924 in MA. Ruth (daughter of DARRAH, Maurice and MCELMAN, Mary Alice) was born on 22 Feb 1902 in Bath, ME; died on 30 Apr 1988 in Bountiful, UT; was buried in Bountiful, UT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married FRENCH, Myrtle S. on 19 Jan 1924 in Bar Harbor, ME. Myrtle (daughter of FRENCH, Robert and ADAMS, Marion D.) was born in CA 1901 in Topsham, ME; died in 1977 in MA; was buried in Peabody, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Chester Arthur Puffer
• Social Security Number: 013-01-4074
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• Residence: 1918, Melrose, MA

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According to his 1918 WWI Draft Registration Card he was a chauffeur for Jesse Dell


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The 1930 Federal Census shows him living on Watervale Rd, Medford, MA. H e is a chauffer and truck driver

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According to his 1918 WWI Draft Registration Card he was a chauffeur for Jesse Dell

The 1930 Federal Census shows him living on Watervale Rd, Medford, MA. He is a chauffer and truck driver

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Family/Spouse: COLLINS, Harriet Barbara. Harriet (daughter of COLLINS, Jeremiah and POWERS, Catherine) was born on 20 Oct 1892 in MA; died on 25 Jan 1966 in MA; was buried in Littleton, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Jeanette married SHEPARD, Ernest L. on 21 Mar 1923 in Bath, ME. Ernest was born on 2 Sep 1900 in Columbia, ME; died in Feb 1971 in ME; was buried in Fairfield, ME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Graduate of Smith College and Harvard University Graduate School. Author of "The Resurgent Years, 1911-1927" (1956), a history of Esso" and "Pepperell's Progress: history of a cotton textile company, 1844-1945". When she retired, she was an archivist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Evelyn married KNOWLTON, Dr. Harry Edward PhD. in 1942 in MA. Harry (son of KNOWLTON, William Lee) was born on 1 May 1890 in MI; died on 5 Feb 1976 in NY; was buried in Fennville, NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1946, Nashville, TN

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She received a doctor of public health degree from Harvard University in 1943.

She was a biostatistician and public health professional. She began her career in public health as Director of Statistical Services in the Department of Public Health for the state of Tennessee. Between 1953-1970, Dr. Puffer served as Chief of the Department of Health Statistics of the Pan American Health Organization, where she was the prime mover behind the Inter-American Investigation of Childhood Mortality that PAHO. During that period she conducted two important research studies: Patterns of Urban Mortality (1967) and Patterns of Morality in Childhood (1973). Today, both studies are still considered path-breaking classics of scientific literature and have had an undeniable impact on health services throughout the hemisphere.

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• SSN issued: MA
• Social Security Number: 011-09-3146
• Residence: 1910, Berlin, MA
• Residence: 1920, Berlin, MA

Stanwood married HOLDEN, Arline Lillian in 1929 in Hudson, MA, and was divorced in CA 1940 in MA. Arline (daughter of HOLDEN, Herbert Harlow and COSTELLOW, Alice Gertrude) was born on 22 Mar 1910 in MA; died on 1 Aug 1987 in Lexington, MA; was buried in Hudson, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Stanwood married TAYLOR, Caroline Stewart in CA 1941 in MA. Caroline was born in CA 1918 in MA; died after 1958 in Portsmouth, NH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the autobiography of Marjorie Puffer Field:

"On the way home from my high school senior reception, Harris asked me if I would accept a diamond on my 18th birthday.  What a thrill!  Oh, how could I wait until August 30th and keep it a secret.  It was just as well that I was leaving the next morning for Eagle Camp.  Those ten weeks would seem endless to me now.  For high school graduation he had given me a beautiful, silver necklace with some family, Egyptian scarabs for a present.  My one request, and a hard one for him, was to tell my parents before he gave me the diamond.  I knew they were not going to approve of our engagement.   Harris gave me my diamond ring as we sat on the rocks beside Lake Champlain on August 30, 1930.

What a tempest was stirred up when I came home wearing that ring.  My two maiden aunts, Fran and Lucy, were my main stays in those hard days.  They highly approved of Harris and finally convinced Mother to accept the fact that I was grown up and not the student that my sisters were.

Even Aunt Lucy told me she wished she were younger so she could try for Harris, as she liked him so much.  Grandpa Rice knew Harris before his death in 1927 and thought he was a fine young man.  To me, Harris was as near as fine a man as my grandfather, who always was my idol."

She was town clerk for Berlin and later worked as assistant town clerk for 23 years, in an office in her home. She moved to West Newbury, Mass., in 1968. In 1982, she moved first to Corvallis and then to McMinnville.

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Marjorie married FIELD, Harris Goodwin on 19 Sep 1931 in Berlin, MA. Harris (son of FIELD, Charles M. and GOODWIN, Caroline E.) was born on 27 Sep 1897 in Northfield, VT; died on 25 Sep 1982 in Corvallis, OR; was buried in Berlin, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]