William Henry Palmer (1852 - 1917)

Born 27 Mar 1852 in Edon, Williams Co. Ohio

Ancestors

Husband of Celestia (Prough) Palmer — married 11 Nov 1908 in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1917 at age 65 in Edon, Williams Co. Ohio

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Biography

William H. Palmer is living with his step grandfather, John Allomong 74 PA and step uncle Joseph Allomong and his family. His father Cyrenus died in 1864 and his mother Elizabeth passed away in 1899 in Kansas." <*US Census Records 1830>

"WILLIAM' HENRY PALMER, a prominent manufacturer of Edon, is a native of Florence township, having been born two miles west of Edon on March 27, 1852. He is the son of Cyrenous and Elizabeth (Richey) Palmer, the former a native of New York and the latter of Pennsylvania. Cyrenous Palmer came to Williams county in the forties, where he purchased and cleared a farm of eighty acres. In addition to this farm he owned one in Steuben county, Ind. In politics he was a Democrat and with his wife a member of the Christian church. Before removing to Ohio he mar- ried in his native State and by that marriage became the father of five children, only one of whom is now living. His first wife having died he married a second time and reared a family of three children, two sons and one daughter, all of whom are still living. He died in 1864, aged sixty-four years, and his widow survived him thirty-five years, dying in Kansas in 1899, a g e d seventy-five years. William Henry Palmer was reared on the old homestead and edu- cated in the public schools of Florence township. He worked on the farm until he was eighteen years old, when he learned the carpenter trade and followed the occupation of contractor and builder until 1899, when he engaged in the manufacture of church furniture, kitchen cupboards, cabinets and wardrobes, under the name of Edon Furniture Manufacturing Company, an enterprise that has been remarkably successful from the very beginning. In 1904 the company purchased a saw-mill and is now prepared to saw its own lumber. In politics Mr. Palmer is a Republican. He takes a deep interest in any and every enterprise that concerns the welfare of his own town and for some years served on the town council. He is a charter member of Edon Lodge, No. 644, Knights of Pythias, and with his family attends the Methodist Episcopal church. On September 18, 1873, he was joined in wedlock to Miss Anna Jenette Stewart, born in Elmore, O., and the daughter of Joseph Stewart, who died near Fort Wayne, Ind. Two sons were born to this marriage. Ellis L., the elder, was born July 20, 1878, and was educated in the Edon high school. For four years he was railroad station agent and telegraph operator at Edon, then he taught in the county schools for two years, and followed that by working for one year as agent of the Equitable Life Assurance Com- pany, of New York. Since then he has been engaged in the restau- rant business at Edon. His wife was Miss Alice Paul, a daughter of James Paul, of Bryan. Leslie E., the younger, was born on March 24, 1880, and was educated in the Edon high school, the Valparaiso, Ind., Normal University and the Davis Business College.- " Williams Co. Biographies https://archive.org/stream/countyofwilliams02shin/countyofwilliams02shin_djvu.txt

Sources

• US Census Records 1830
• Palmer Family Records
• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46854922
• Max Copeland Palmer, California Cyrenus Palmer Research
• Obituary - Family copy no date noted
• State of Ohio Secretary of State Bureau of Vital statistics Death Certificate 29550 April 13, 1917 cause of death chronic nephritis (uremic poisoning)
• State of Ohio Williams CVo. Probate Court Marriage License filed Sept.1873

with Marriage certification filed 25 Oct. 1873.

• Full text of "The county of Williams : a history of Williams County, Ohio, from the earliest days, with special chapters on various subjects, including each of the different townships ; also a biographical department" pg.506