Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Palmer, John R. 1836 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co.

JOHN R. PALMER, an attorney at Pleasanton, is one of the prominent citizens of
Amador Valley. He dates his birth March 15, 1836, at Bedford County,
Pennsylvania, where he was reared and educated. He learned the trade of tanner
and currier, following it from the age of fourteen to twenty years; and from
1856 to 1861 he was engaged in several callings,—teaching school a few years,
photographing, etc., and drifted into the study of law, reading Blackstone and
other great legal authorities. He was admitted to the bar in his native State;
in 1861, he was elected District Attorney for three years, and in 1864
re-elected. After the expiration of his last term, in May, 1867, he bade
farewell to friends and associates, and came by steamer by way of Panama to San
Francisco. In a short time he went to Black Rock, Nevada, where he followed
mining and prospecting for a time; then, returning to San Francisco, he was
engaged in handling various publications for a few months, and in 1868 he
located in Pleasanton, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his
chosen profession, having had many noted lawsuits in regard to land claims. He
has also been Notary Public since 1870. He is a gentleman of literary ability,
having been on the local staff of several prominent journals; was local editor
of the Bedford Gazette, in his native State, from 1861 to 1867. He is still
unmarried.

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Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.




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