1821 - 1901 (80 years)
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Name |
PUFFER, Asahel Dakin |
Birth |
21 May 1821 |
Sudbury, MA [3, 4] |
Gender |
Male |
FindaGrave |
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Ref# |
129 [2] |
_COLOR |
11 |
Death |
19 Aug 1901 |
Lowell, MA [4, 5] |
Burial |
Lowell, MA |
Address: Lowell Cemetery |
Person ID |
I23770 |
Puffers |
Last Modified |
2 May 2017 |
Father |
PUFFER, James Goddard, b. 1792/3, Sudbury, MA d. 1830 (Age 37 years) |
Mother |
DAKIN, Abigail, b. 10 Aug 1795, Sudbury, MA d. 10 Jun 1856, Lowell, MA (Age 60 years) |
Marriage |
11 Feb 1816 |
Sudbury, MA [6] |
Family ID |
F8569 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
WATSON, Elizabeth Ann, b. 6 Oct 1820, Nottingham, MA d. 13 Jan 1905, Lowell, MA (Age 84 years) |
Marriage |
13 Oct 1845 |
Epping, NH [4] |
Children |
| 1. PUFFER, Abby Adelaide, b. 30 Nov 1847, Lowell, MA d. 30 Nov 1921, MA (Age 74 years) |
| 2. PUFFER, Grace Helena Durell, b. 31 Jan 1850, Lowell, MA d. 1933, MA (Age 82 years) |
| 3. PUFFER, Frederick Arthur Asahel, b. 23 Mar 1853, Lowell, MA d. 19 Jun 1932, MA (Age 79 years) |
| 4. PUFFER, Walter Cyrus Watson, b. 17 Sep 1854, Lowell, MA d. 30 Oct 1875, Dartmouth, MA (Age 21 years) |
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Family ID |
F8454 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
17 Mar 2024 |
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Notes |
- A grocer and a Civil War Veteran.
"He was an old and much respected resident of Lowell, the oldest grocer in business in that city at the time of this death, and his genial, kindly personality had endeared him to a wide circle of friends who will sincerely mourn his loss." In 1825 he went to Lowell with his parents and was educated in the public schools until he reached the age of 17, in 1836, when he found employment as clerk in the Washburn & Wilkins grocery store on Merrimac St. for three years and for Benjamin Watson, grocer, for three or four years. In 1845 he engaged in business for himself at the corner of Middlesex and Gorham streets. later he removed to Church Street and in 1855 formed a partnership with Page & Fay, under the name of Page, Fay & Puffer, conducting a grocery business on Middlesex St. for fifteen years. Then he sold out his interests in the firm and accepted the position of president of a lamp company on Devonshire St. in Boston. Two years afterward he returned to Lowell, and engaged as a wholesale dealer in flour, finally purchasing the store of Mr. Whithed at 109 Branch St., the present location of the firm of A.D. Puffer & Son. His son Fredrick A. was his partner.
Mr. Puffer was a Republican and served a year in the common council and one term as Representative in the General Court in 1869. In Oct, 1848, he joined the fire department. For two years, 1860-61, he was chief engineer of the fire department and was elected foreman of the Veteran Fireman's association when it was formed and was later vice-president and president. He was a trustee and vice-president of the Merrimac River Savings Bank.
He was a member of the Old Residents Association; the Grocers Association, and of Oberlin Lodge, I.O.O.F. In 1841 he was a member of the National Highlanders, a military company. He attended Eliot Congregational Church.
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Sources |
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 82, 123-124.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 82, 123.
- [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page114.
- [S2] Descendants of George Puffer of Braintree, Massachusetts 1639-2020, Red Letter Edition, 123.
- [S747] US Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930.
- [S436] Vital Records of Stow Massachusetts To the Year 1850, page 253.
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