Buffington, J. W.

BUFFINGTON

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Date: 3/11/2007 at 21:30:03

J. W. Buffington

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.9, Council Bluffs)
J. W. Buffington, book-keeper for Erb & Duquette, Council Bluffs, was born in Taneytown, Carroll, Co., Md., November 10, 1847, and is of English descent. His father was Chief Judge of the Orphans' Court of Carroll County, Md., for eight years. When subject was nine years of age, he moved with his parents to Baltimore, Md. He received his education at Irving College, Manchester, Md., and took a business course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College, Baltimore, Md. He first began business in 18686 as salesman with Delphey & Shorb, dry goods merchants, with whom he remained about a year; then entered the store of F. H. Elliott, Taneytown, Md., remaining there till 1870. He then engaged in farming and dairy business, near Baltimore Md., and continued in that occupation till February, 1875, when he came to Council Bluffs and there engaged as salesman with J. W. Laing, with whom he remained till 1876. He then returned to Maryland and engaged with his former employer, F. H. Elliott, for two years, when he returned to Council Bluffs and again engaged with J. W. Laing, and after being two years in his employe accepted his present position of book-keeper for Erb & Duquette, wholesale confectioners and fruiterers, of Council Bluffs. They are the largest eealers in their line west of Chicago.