BIOGRAPHIES: Samuel PALMER, Cumberland, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 8 April 2002 ==================================================================== Samuel Palmer, Cumberland, merchant and farmer, now retired, was born in Italy, and there married Clorinda Donatello. They came to America in the late seventies, and located in Chicago. In 1881 they came to Wisconsin and settled in Barron County where they rented a farm near Cumberland, A few years later he bought a small tract of land, and to this he added other small tracts as his prosperity permitted, until he owned 100 acres. He erected a good set of buildings, cleared 70 acres, and developed a good farm, just on the city limits of Cumberland. From 1900 to 1915 he engaged in the general mercantile business in Cumberland. In 1915 he retired. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer were the parents of ten children, of whom nine are now living: Josephine, Mary, Minnie, Jovena, Annie, John, Joseph, Samuel and Anthony. Frank, the youngest, was inducted into the United States service July 2, 1918, served with Company M, 343d Infantry, and was killed in action Nov. 11, 1918. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 306-307.