Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Palmer, Floyd January 24, 1830 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

FLOYD PALMER, farmer, sec. 22, Green Tp., was born in Onondaga Co., N.Y., Jan. 
24, 1830, and is a son of 

William and Elizabeth (Lowry) Palmer, natives of New York.  His father was a 
soldier of the war of 1812, 

and was stationed at Sackett's Harbor.  His maternal great-grandfather was a 
native of Germany and was 

kidnapped by a pressgang in 1732, when about the age of 18, and brought to 
this country.  He was compelled 

to labor during his passage, and on landing upon the American continent was 
sold for a pretended balance 

due for his transportation.  He died at 100 years of age.  The Palmer family 
can only be indefinately 

traced to English origin.  William Palmer came to Michigan with his family in 
1835, and settled in 

Washtenaw County, going afterwards to Ionia County, where the son was reared 
and educated.  When Floyd was 

13 years old his mother died, and since that time he has been the architect of 
his own fortune.  In 1858 

he was married in Washtenaw County, to Eliza A., daughter of Samuel and Maria 
(Masten) North, born in 

October, 1830, in Ulster, N.Y.  Her parents were born New York, and settled in 
Washtenaw Co., Mich.  Mr. 

Palmer sold his interets in 1881 and bought a fine farm of 95 acres in Green 
Tp., Mecosta Co.,  Mr. and 

Mrs. Palmer have had six children, of whom five survive:  Alice M., Arthur E., 
Helen O., Wilsey C., and 

Jennie I.  Nettie S. is deceased.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co., MI.

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