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Born 1850
From Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens (1908)
C. H. PALMER, who is identified with a number of Akron's greatest business enterprises, is still in the.vigor of middle age, having been born in 1850, in old Middlebury, now- Akron, and is a son of Albert and Ann Elizabeth (Hoyc) Palmer.
Stephen Palmer, the grandfather of C. H., was one of the earliest manufacturers of this section. He established a farming mill factory which his son, Albert Palmer, continued to operate until about 1850, in which year he went to Tennessee, where, for a time he was engaged in the same business. In early manhood, Albert Palmer was a school teacher. He still survives, and resides at Akron, having reached his eighty-third year, while his wife has rounded out her seventy-seventh.
C. H. Palmer was educated at Kingsville Academy. He was only twelve years old when he was sent out on his father's wagon, to sell matches, and thus from boyhood he has been connected with the great corporation now known as the Diamond Match Company. From the humble position of match boy, Mr. Palmer, through diligence and industry worked his way up, step by.9tep, through the different grades of service until he now occupies the responsible positions of vice-president and general superintendent of the Diamond Match Company, as well as a director in the same. Mr. Palmer is largely interested in many other flourishing enterprises of this prosperous city and section. He is president and director of the Granite Clay Company; treasurer and a director of the Akron Smoking Pipe Company; a director of the First National Bank of Akron; a director of the Barberton Savings Bank, at Barberton, and other concerns of less magnitude.
In 1876, Mr. Palmer was married to Marion Peckham, who wa.s born, reared and educated at Middlebury, and who is a daughter of Thomas H. Peckham, one of the earlier.st settlers at Tallmadge, Summit County. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have one son, Thomas A., who is manager of the Barberton branch of the Diamond Match factory, and vice-president and a director of the Granite Clay Company. He was educated at Case's School of Applied Science. Mr. Palmer is a member and one of the trustees of the First Church of Christ, at Akron.
As printed in Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens (1908). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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