found: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed January 2, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Buffum, James N.; James Needham Buffum; abolitionist, financier; born 1807 in North Berwick, Maine, United States; was carpenter contractor in Lynn, Massachusetts; traveled on the antislavery lecture circuit as an advocate of immediate abolition; withdrew from the Society of Friends and adopted a radicalism; served as chair of the finance committee and as a vice president of the New England Anti-Slavery Society; was a treasurer of the Essex County Anti-Slavery Society and vice president of Friends of Social Reform; acted as director of Charles Stearns's Laborers' Homestead and Southern Emigration Society, which purchased land in Virginia for freed men and women; was chosen as a presidential elector (1868); was elected mayor of Lynn (1869-1875); elected to a term in Massachusetts legislature (1873); died in 1887 in Massachusetts, United States)
