- PRESCOTT W. PUFFER, the present able and courteous local
representative of the Chicago,
- Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad at Monroe, Green Co., Wis.,
where he is station agent, was born in Andover, Windsor Co.,
Vt., Aug. 29, 1833. His parents, Ephraim and Rosamer (CHANDLER)
PUFFER, were also natives of Vermont, and of their family of
children two are now living: Rosamer married Dr. Putnam BURTON,
and both are deceased. Chandler died in Ohio in 1844. Lucinda
is deceased. Ryland is deceased. Elizabeth married Isaiah LOVEJOY,
and is deceased. Prescott W. is our subject. Augusta is the wife
of A. W. WELLS, of Shelburn Falls, Mass. Ephraim PUFFER was a
carpenter, later in life becoming a farmer, and died on the old
homestead in Vermont in 1848, at the age of sixty-two. His widow
survived to the age of ninety-five years. They were Baptists
in early life but in after years she became a Universalist. He
was a man of considerable local importance, and held various
offices. His father died over fifty years ago, when he was past
eighty years. He was a farmer, and had reared a family of five
children.
- Prescott W. PUFFER was reared in Vermont, and received an
excellent common school educa-
- tion. He attended Black River Academy, a local institution
of more than local reputation, and was well prepared for the
world when he left home, at eighteen years of age, to work in
a woodenware factory. In 1851 he went to Troy, N.Y., where he
was employed in the post office some three years. In 1855 the
young man came to Wisconsin, and engaged in the furniture business
at Janesville for two years. About that time he secured an appointment
as clerk in the office of the Northwestern Railway Co., at Janesville,
and was with that company six years, at the expiration of which
time the St. Paul company offered him a better position, in their
Janesville freight office. He accepted it, and entered the services
of that corporation, with which he has remained to the present
time. The following year he came to Monroe as station agent,
and has been here since January 15, 1866.
- Prescott W. PUFFER and Miss Helen R. NOGGLE, a daughter of
the late Judge David and Anna
- (LEWIS) NOGGLE, were married Dec. 23, 1856, in Janesville,
Wis. They have one daughter, May Louise, who became the wife
of J. C. HOOD, of Monroe, and is the mother of one daughter,
Marguerite. Mr. and Mrs. PUFFER are members of the Episcopal
Church and are very popular in church and society. He belongs
to Western Star Lodge, No. 14, A.F. & A.M., Janesville, Wis.,
and to Palestine Chapter, No. 21, R.A.M., Monroe, Wis. Mr. and
Mrs. PUFFER and daughter are charter members of St. Omar Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star, Monroe, Wis. He is a stanch Republican,
and a man of fine record and unblemished character. Mr. PUFFER
has a commodious and attractive home on the corner of Market
and Emerson streets, and has lived in Monroe thirty-five years.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 498.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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