Sonoma-Yuba-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Palmer, James M. 1823 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Palmer, James M. A native of Buncombe county, North Carolina, born March 18,
1823, where he received his education and labored upon a farm until 1847, at
which time he embarked in mercantile pursuits in his native State and county
until 1849. On March 14th of the above year, he started for California. Upon
arriving at Independence, Missouri, he joined a large company and the party
started from Independence on May 18th to cross the plains to the land of gold
and plenty. They landed at Weavertown, El Dorado county, on September 19th, and
immediately engaged in mining, where they remained about six months. Meeting
with poor success, they proceeded to the North Fork of the Yuba river, where
they spent the whole Summer of 1850 in draining and changing the course of the
river in the vain effort to strike a bonanza. This, however, proved
unsuccessful, and after they settled their accounts the company dissolved and
Mr. Palmer came to Sonoma late in the Fall of 1850, and was engaged two years in
gardening and farming. In 1852, he moved to Vallejo township and embarked in
farming and stock-raising until May, 1879, when he took up his residence in
Petaluma, and in October he formed his present partnership in the grocery
business with Mr. Holmes. Mr. Palmer was the first white settler in Vallejo
township, and at that time there was no house save the old adobe. Has held the
office of County Supervisor for five years, being elected in 1869 and served
until 1874. Mr. Palmer married his first wife, Lucy A. Hinkston, April 16,1854,
she being a native of Missouri, born May 6, 1837. By this union there are three
children, Hester, Mary and Lee, and one deceased, Laura, she being the oldest
child. Married his present wife, Mrs. Mary Moore, on April 6, 1873. She is a
native of South Africa, born August 25, 1846. She has one child, Emma, by her
former marriage.

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Petaluma Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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