BIO:  Joseph B. Budding, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Lower Windsor Township, Pg 128

JOSEPH B. BUDDING, son of Levi and Cassie Budding, of Wrightsville, Penn., was 
born May 6, 1854.  He left home at five years of age and lived with his uncles, 
Levi Kauffet and George Kauffet, until he grew to manhood.  In 1873 he embarked 
in the mercantile business at Yorkana, starting in a small room with a capital of 
$1,600.  In 1878 he began the manufacture of cigars, employing about ten hands, 
and now handles about 6,000,000 cigars annually.  He also deals in leaf tobacco.  
In 1880 he took his brother Jacob into partnership with him in the store.  Mr. 
Budding was married, October 8, 1878, to Emma J., daughter of John E. and Maria 
Beard, of Lower Windsor Township, York County.  This union has been blessed with 
three children, of whom one son and one daughter, are living.  Mr. Budding is a 
stockholder in the York City Market House, and in the York Tribune Company.  He 
was the first postmaster at Yorkana, when that office was established in 1876.