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Born 1855
From Centennial history of Summit County, Ohio and representative citizens (1908)
WILLIAM N. PALMER, a.assistant general.superintendent of the Diamond Match Company, at Barberton, was born at Middlebury, now Akron, Ohio, December 9, 1855, and is a son of Albert and Ann Elizabeth (Haughey) Palmer.
Albert Palmer, father of William N., was born at Lyons, New York, in 182.S, and is a son of Stephen Palmer, who brought his family to Akron in 1837. The latter was a manufacturer of farming mills and when his father died, Albert Palmer continued the business. Albert Palmer and his wife both survive, after a happy married life of fifty-eight years, he having reached his eighty-fourth birthday, while.she is seventy-seven years of age. They had seven children, as follows:
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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