- BENJAMIN F. PALMER, farmer, Secs. 5, 32 and 33; P.O. Lima
Center; born in Cayuga Co.,
- N.Y., May, 1809; son of Daniel and Joanna PALMER, who removed
to Erie Co., Penn., where Benjamin lived until he removed to
Indiana, and remained one year, then located in Rock County on
the farm he now owns, of 140 acres, in 1840. He has given 180
acres to his children. Married Miss Lavina PHILLIPS, in Erie
Co., Penn., in 1830; she died, 1838, leaving two children - Martha
A. and John, who died soon after his mother. Mr. PALMER married
Miss Elvira CUTTING, of Chautauqua Co., N.Y., in 1840; she died,
November, 1877, leaving one son, Clark B., and one daughter,
Ellen, now the wife of James BROWN. Clark B. PALMER married
Miss Addie CALLISON. Mr. PALMER is a Democrat, and the family
are liberal in religion. He is one of the old pioneers of Rock
County, who made his claim in 1838, and, remaining up it, has
made a good home for himself and family.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 794.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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