Brown County MN Archives Biographies.....Palmer, Charles Louis 1872 - 
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Author: L. A. Fritsche

CHARLES LOUIS PALMER.

    Charles Louis Palmer, member of the board of county commissioners of Brown
county and one of the best-known and most progressive farmers of Prairieville
township, proprietor of a fine farm of three hundred and twenty acres situated
six miles from the thriving city of Sleepy Eye, where he has lived since he was
ten years old, is a native of Illinois, having been born in the town of Bowen,
that state, March 24, 1872, son of Jesse and Letitia (McNeall) Palmer, the
former a native of Ohio and the latter of Illinois.

    Jesse Palmer was a merchant at Bowen, Illinois, and was in business there
until 1882, in which year he disposed of his interests at that place and with
his family came to Minnesota, settling in Brown county. He bought a half section
of land in Prairieville township and there established his home. He farmed the
place for ten years, at the end of which time he moved to Sleepy Eye, where he
bought a grocery store, which he conducted quite successfully until his
retirement from business in 1911, since which time he made his home in Long
Beach, California, until his death, March 20, 1916. To him and his wife eight
children were horn, Mary, Prank, William, one who died in infancy, Charles L.,
Harry, Leroy and James.

    Charles L. Palmer was about ten years old when his parents came to Brown
county and his schooling was continued in the district school in the
neighborhood of his home in Prairieville township, in the meantime aiding his
father in the development of the home place. In 1899 he took charge of the home
farm and has since managed it, and is looked upon as one of the most substantial
residents of that community. Mr. Palmer has long taken an active interest in
local civic affairs and for five years served on the township board. In 1915 he
was elected county commissioner from his district and is now serving in that
capacity.

    In 1903 Charles L. Palmer was united in marriage to Isabelle Garrioch,
daughter of Harry and Helena German (Bauman) Garrioch, pioneer settlers of
Nicollet county, who came here from Scotland in 1858, and to this union two
children have been born, Letitia and LaDonna. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are members of
the Congregational church of Sleepy Eye. Mr. Palmer is a member of the Masonic
lodge at Sleepy Eye and takes a warm interest in the affairs of that order.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana



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