BIO: David Gibbs Palmer; formerly Edenburg, Saratoga co., NY
surname: Palmer, Culver, Barber

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BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID GIBBS PALMER
History of Jackson County, Michigan, 1881, published by; Interstate Publishing
Co., 1881

David Gibbs, PALMER, Justice of the Peace, is one of a family of 9 sons and 1
daughter of Samuel H. & Cynthia A. (CULVER) PALMER, of New York state.  Six of
their children are now living.  Mr. PALMER was born in Edenburg, Saratoga Co.,
N.Y., Jan. 24, 1829; came with his parents to Michigan in 1835; lived two
years in Detroit, then removed to five miles west of Ann Arbor, and kept a
tavern on the old Territorial Road; remained in that vicinity until March,
1841; removed thence to Jackson; kept the BASCOM HOUSE one year, then engaged
in the manufacture of wagons and carriages, which trade David G. learned and
worked at until 1860.  His father was a member of the first Legislature that
convened in Lansing.  He and his wife died in Jackson in 1853.

Mr. PALMER was elected Justice in 1861; in January, 1863, was mustered as
Quartermaster of the 1st Michigan Sharpshooters, and served in that capacity
till the close of the war.  They were chiefly with the Army of the Potomac. 
After returning from the service Mr. PALMER was three years in the grocery
trade in Jackson; farmed some years; in 1870 took the U.S. Census of the city
and three townships; was Chief of Ppolice in 1876 and 1877, and in 1879 was
again elected to his present office.  He served as Grand Patriarch of the
Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows of the State in 1871; was chosen
Representative to the Grand Lodge of the United States in 1872 and 1873.  He
married Eliza P. BARBER, a native of New York, in Jackson, 1848.  They have 2
daughters - Ella A. and Ruth A., both married.