Bio: Palmer, C. H.

Contact: Janet Schwarze. 

----Source: 1881 History of Northern Wisconsin, pg. 1032.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF C. H. Palmer.

C. H. PALMER, lumberman, Westboro, was born in Susquehanna Co., Penn; was engaged in lumbering and farming, and came to Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1S5S. where he also engaged in farming. In 1872 he moved to Roxbury and kept a boardinghouse, and in 1874 settled in Westboro, being the first settler in the village. He built a hotel and kept it till 1878, when he went into a saw-mill with S. D. Cone. In 1880 he sold his interest. I He married Miss James, of Susquehanna Co., Penn. They have one .son, Clarence, who was born in Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1859, where he attended school and finished at the Madison University in 1877. He now has control of the grocery store.