Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joseph Buffington was a United States federal judge. Born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania to Ephraim and Margaret Chambers Buffington and nephew to a well-known Pennsylvania judge of the same name, Buffington received an A.B. from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1875. He returned to Kittanning and read law in 1878, and then worked as a lawyer in private practice until 1892. On January 29, 1885, he married Mary Alice Simonton, of Emmitsburg, Maryland.