Lacrosse-Winnebago-Monroe County WI Archives Biographies.....Palmer, Monroe September 14, 1819 - 
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MONROE PALMER, farmer, Sec. 34; P. O. West Salem. Mr. Palmer was born in 
Vermont, Sept. 14, 1819. He learned the trade of a millwright, which business 
he followed for a number of years. He went from Vermont to Maine, where he 
worked at his trade; thence to Massachusetts. He came to Oshkosh, Wis., in 
October, 1850; returned to Massachusetts; was married in Boston, June, 1851, 
to Miss Martha B. Cooledge, in Maine, born in August, 1826; returned to La 
Crosse County, and located his present farm, which formerly contained about 
700 acres. In March, 1852, he built a cabin near his present residence, on the 
bank of the La Crosse River. Mr. Palmer is one of the earliest settlers, and 
one of the prominent men of the town of Hamilton. He laid out and named the 
village of Neshonoc, at one time quite a thriving little town. He built the 
Neshonoc Mill in 1852. This mill he owned and operated till 1872, when he sold 
it to Mr. Orrin Vanness. The mill is now owned by Alexander McMillan, of La 
Crosse. He was Chairman of the first Town Board of the town, elected in 1852; 
has been Town Clerk, and was Treasurer for five successive years. He was 
Postmaster of Neshonoc Post Office from 1853 to 1861; was also Justice of the 
Peace for many years. Mr. Palmer possesses an excellent memory, and having 
kept a diary of current events, from the time he first settled in this valley, 
to the present time, he is a valuable source of information. He was a brother 
of Dr. H. Palmer, a well-known physician, who came to La Crosse County from 
Massachusetts, in May, 1857. He practiced medicine at Salem till 1875, when he 
removed to Sparta, where he died, Dec. 23, 1880, leaving a wife and three 
children. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have two sons and two daughters - Hannah R., now 
Mrs. A. F. Smith; Minnie B., now Mrs. E. W. Congran; George A. and Monroe H.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 826.
Picture from "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 523.


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