San Benito-Yuba-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Palmer, Samuel 1831 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

SAMUEL PALMER, one of the first settlers of Priest valley, has been a resident
of California since 1853. He is a native of New York and was born in Westchester
county, April 18, 1831. His father, B. M. Palmer, was a pioneer of Washtenaw
county, Michigan, having located in the town of Lyndon, in 1836. The maiden name
of the mother of our subject was Sarah Griffin.

  Our subject remained in his native place until his marriage, October 26, 1852,
to Miss Nancy L. Fox, a daughter of Benjamin F. Fox, of Unadilla, Livingston
county, Michigan. The following year the young couple started overland, for
California, via Council Bluff, Iowa, north fork of the Platte river, etc., and
on to Marysville, where Mr. Palmer pursued farming from 1855 to 1867: and from
1867 to 1869 he traveled and prospected for a location for a farm. The last
named year he met John W. Green, at Gilroy, who told him of the fertility and
beauty of Priest valley. Mr. Palmer visited the valley with Mr. Green, but
returned to Gilroy, where he spent one year. In 1870, however, he located on his
chosen home, where he has since resided. The land on which Mr. Palmer located
was unsurveyed and belonged to the Government, but was afterward surveyed by
John Raymond, in 1871. Mr. Palmer now has 1,280 acres of as fine land as can be
found in the county, or in fact in the entire State of California. A portion of
this land is devoted to grazing purposes.

  Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have three sons and an adopted daughter, namely: Frank
Loveland (see sketch elsewhere in this work), George Fox, Charles N. and Helen.
Mr. Palmer is one of the solid men of San Benito county and is a good
representative of the early pioneer.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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