FLOYD PALMER, farmer, sec. 22, Green Tp., was born in Onondaga Co., N.Y., Jan. 24, 1830, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Lowry) Palmer, natives of New York. His father was a soldier of the war of 1812, and was stationed at Sackett's Harbor. His maternal great-grandfather was a native of Germany and was kidnapped by a pressgang in 1732, when about the age of 18, and brought to this country. He was compelled to labor during his passage, and on landing upon the American continent was sold for a pretended balance due for his transportation. He died at 100 years of age. The Palmer family can only be indefinately traced to English origin. William Palmer came to Michigan with his family in 1835, and settled in Washtenaw County, going afterwards to Ionia County, where the son was reared and educated. When Floyd was 13 years old his mother died, and since that time he has been the architect of his own fortune. In 1858 he was married in Washtenaw County, to Eliza A., daughter of Samuel and Maria (Masten) North, born in October, 1830, in Ulster, N.Y. Her parents were born New York, and settled in Washtenaw Co., Mich. Mr. Palmer sold his interets in 1881 and bought a fine farm of 95 acres in Green Tp., Mecosta Co., Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have had six children, of whom five survive: Alice M., Arthur E., Helen O., Wilsey C., and Jennie I. Nettie S. is deceased.
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