Geroge W. Palmer Biography


	This biography appears on page 1502 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	GEORGE W. PALMER is a prosperous citizen of Lennox, Lincoln 
county, where he has been practicing veterinary surgery for a number of 
years. He was born April 1, 1836, in Madison county, New York, and lived 
at home until of mature years, assisting his father on the farm and 
receiving an education in the schools of his native state and Wisconsin. 
He then left the parental roof and went to Iowa, where he engaged in 
farming. Subsequently he disposed of his Iowa farm and moving to 
Wisconsin, engaged in the drug business. A number of years ago he came 
to Lincoln county and took up land, to which he later moved his family, 
and under his labors the claim in due time was improved and converted 
into one of the good farms in the neighborhood. Subsequently he removed 
to the village of Lennox, where he has since resided, devoting his 
attention the meanwhile to veterinary surgery, a profession in which he 
has acquired unusual proficiency and skill and much more than local 
reputation.