Charles Palmer Biography, Lapeer County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 1041

This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.

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CHARLES PALMER, President of the Charles Palmer Banking House at Imlay 
City, was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., September 27. 1831. He is the 
son of Ashbel and Elizabeth Palmer. The grandfather and great-
grandfather of our subject lived in Saratoga before the Revolution and 
the famous battlefield of Saratoga was only a mile and a half from 
their home. Our subject's father was a soldier in the War of 1812 and 
his grandfather was in the Revolutionary War.

   Mr. Palmer was reared in the village of Stillwater where he attended 
the village schools and at the age of seventeen began working on the 
railroad as a civil engineer. In September, 1851, he went to Toledo, 
Ohio, where he was connected with the Toledo, Norwalk & Cleveland 
Railroad as civil engineer, having charge of the construction of twenty 
miles of the road from Toledo east. He remained there until 1853, when 
he went to Wisconsin where he was engaged in the construction of 
several roads.

   In 1870 Mr. Palmer platted Imlay City, erecting the first building, 
which was called the Bancroft House and which was burned in 1873. He 
has been a resident of this city since his first coming here and is one 
of its most prominent and influential citizens. In politics he is a 
Republican. He cast his first Presidential vote for Franklin Pierce, 
but when Lincoln was nominated, became a Republican. He has served on 
the School Board for twelve years and was Village Trustee for a number 
of years. He has taken the Royal Arch degree in Masonry. Mr. Palmer is 
a purely self-made man and is an extensive landowner, being the largest 
taxpayer in Imlay City. Our subject is the father of eight children. 
seven of whom are living.




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