BIOGRAPHY: William P. Palmer Of Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois.
William P. Palmer, grain, coal and lumber merchant, at Sterling, was born in Franklin Co, PA Oct. 9, 1846. His parents, Jonas C. and Catharine (Flack) Palmer, were also natives of that State; his father was a farmer by vocation.
After obtaining a district-school education, the subject of this notice, at the age of 19 years, attended the Iron City College at Pittsburg for a period of six months. At the age of 20 he left home and for a year was clerk in a grain house at Chambersurg, then until 1877 he was a member of the firm of Keefer, Palmer & Co., dealing in grain, coal, and agricultural implements. Then selling out his interest in the latter business, he came to Sterling and assumed charge of the interests of the Langford & Hall Lumber Company. Two years afterward he bought them out, and since then he has managed the business alone. He is a successful and enterprising business man, shrewd and well qualified for public trusts.
Politically, he is a Republican, and religiously a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sterling, as is also his wife: both were members of the First Reformed Church in Chambersburg, Pa. He is a member of the Order of Masonry, Legion of Honor and Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Wallace School Board, and in the municipality he is at present the Chairman of the committtee on Streets and Alleys.
In the spring of 1865, he married Maggie B. a daughter of Michael and Mary (Bear) Rutt, and of Pennsylvanian nativity, born in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have four children: Bertie, Minnie, John G. and Bessie. The last named died at three years of age.
Source: http://genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/biopalmer.html
(Additional Note - William was also a Justice of the Peace between 1900-1930)
William P. Palmer, grain, coal and lumber merchant, at Sterling, was born in Franklin Co, PA Oct. 9, 1846. His parents, Jonas C. and Catharine (Flack) Palmer, were also natives of that State; his father was a farmer by vocation.
After obtaining a district-school education, the subject of this notice, at the age of 19 years, attended the Iron City College at Pittsburg for a period of six months. At the age of 20 he left home and for a year was clerk in a grain house at Chambersurg, then until 1877 he was a member of the firm of Keefer, Palmer & Co., dealing in grain, coal, and agricultural implements. Then selling out his interest in the latter business, he came to Sterling and assumed charge of the interests of the Langford & Hall Lumber Company. Two years afterward he bought them out, and since then he has managed the business alone. He is a successful and enterprising business man, shrewd and well qualified for public trusts.
Politically, he is a Republican, and religiously a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sterling, as is also his wife: both were members of the First Reformed Church in Chambersburg, Pa. He is a member of the Order of Masonry, Legion of Honor and Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Wallace School Board, and in the municipality he is at present the Chairman of the committtee on Streets and Alleys.
In the spring of 1865, he married Maggie B. a daughter of Michael and Mary (Bear) Rutt, and of Pennsylvanian nativity, born in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have four children: Bertie, Minnie, John G. and Bessie. The last named died at three years of age.
Source: http://genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/biopalmer.html
(Additional Note - William was also a Justice of the Peace between 1900-1930)
BIOGRAPHY: William P. Palmer Of Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois.
William P. Palmer, grain, coal and lumber merchant, at Sterling, was born in Franklin Co, PA Oct. 9, 1846. His parents, Jonas C. and Catharine (Flack) Palmer, were also natives of that State; his father was a farmer by vocation.
After obtaining a district-school education, the subject of this notice, at the age of 19 years, attended the Iron City College at Pittsburg for a period of six months. At the age of 20 he left home and for a year was clerk in a grain house at Chambersurg, then until 1877 he was a member of the firm of Keefer, Palmer & Co., dealing in grain, coal, and agricultural implements. Then selling out his interest in the latter business, he came to Sterling and assumed charge of the interests of the Langford & Hall Lumber Company. Two years afterward he bought them out, and since then he has managed the business alone. He is a successful and enterprising business man, shrewd and well qualified for public trusts.
Politically, he is a Republican, and religiously a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sterling, as is also his wife: both were members of the First Reformed Church in Chambersburg, Pa. He is a member of the Order of Masonry, Legion of Honor and Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Wallace School Board, and in the municipality he is at present the Chairman of the committtee on Streets and Alleys.
In the spring of 1865, he married Maggie B. a daughter of Michael and Mary (Bear) Rutt, and of Pennsylvanian nativity, born in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have four children: Bertie, Minnie, John G. and Bessie. The last named died at three years of age.
Source: http://genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/biopalmer.html
(Additional Note - William was also a Justice of the Peace between 1900-1930)
William P. Palmer, grain, coal and lumber merchant, at Sterling, was born in Franklin Co, PA Oct. 9, 1846. His parents, Jonas C. and Catharine (Flack) Palmer, were also natives of that State; his father was a farmer by vocation.
After obtaining a district-school education, the subject of this notice, at the age of 19 years, attended the Iron City College at Pittsburg for a period of six months. At the age of 20 he left home and for a year was clerk in a grain house at Chambersurg, then until 1877 he was a member of the firm of Keefer, Palmer & Co., dealing in grain, coal, and agricultural implements. Then selling out his interest in the latter business, he came to Sterling and assumed charge of the interests of the Langford & Hall Lumber Company. Two years afterward he bought them out, and since then he has managed the business alone. He is a successful and enterprising business man, shrewd and well qualified for public trusts.
Politically, he is a Republican, and religiously a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sterling, as is also his wife: both were members of the First Reformed Church in Chambersburg, Pa. He is a member of the Order of Masonry, Legion of Honor and Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Wallace School Board, and in the municipality he is at present the Chairman of the committtee on Streets and Alleys.
In the spring of 1865, he married Maggie B. a daughter of Michael and Mary (Bear) Rutt, and of Pennsylvanian nativity, born in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have four children: Bertie, Minnie, John G. and Bessie. The last named died at three years of age.
Source: http://genealogytrails.com/ill/whiteside/biopalmer.html
(Additional Note - William was also a Justice of the Peace between 1900-1930)
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