Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Palmer, William P 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

William P. Palmer, grain, coal and lumber merchant, at Sterling, was born in 
Franklin Co., Pa., Oct. 9, 1846. His parents, Jonas C. and Catharine (Fleck) 
Palmer, were also natives of that State; his father was a farmer by vocation. 
After obtaining a district-school education, the subject of this notice, at 
the age of 19 years, attended the Iron City College at Pittsburg for a period 
of six months. At the age of 20 he left home and for a year was clerk in a 
grain house at Chambersburg, then until 1877 he was a member of the firm of 
Keefer, Palmer & Co., dealing in grain, coal and agricultural implements. Then 
selling out his interest in the latter business, he came to Sterling and 
assumed charge of the interests of the Langford & Hall Lumber Company. Two 
years afterward he bought them out, and since then he has managed the business 
alone. He is a successful and enterprising business man, shrewd and well 
qualified for public trusts. Politically, he is a Republican, and religiously 
a member of the Presbyterian Church of Sterling, as is also his wife; both 
were members of the First Reformed Church in Chambersburg, Pa. He is a member 
of the Orders of Masonry, Legion of Honor and Knights of Pythias. He is also a 
member of the Wallace School Board, and in the municipality he is at present 
the Chairman of the Committee on Streets and Alleys. In the spring of 1865 he 
married Maggie B., a daughter of Michael and Mary (Bear) Rutt, and of 
Pennsylvanian nativity, born in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have four children: 
Bertie, Minnie, John G. and Bessie. The last named died at three years of age.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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