G. W. Palmer    

G. W. PALMER, farmer, post-office Leesburgh, was born March 6, 1835, in Springfield Township, to Thomas and Catharine (Guist) Palmer, natives of Washington County, Penn., where they were married, and in 1827 they came to Springfield Township, and settled in the green woods on the farm where our subject now resides. They moved to different farms in the township before they died on the farm where Mr. Galloway lives, that event in his career occurring April 7, 1875, and in hers December 12, 1877. They had eleven children: Daniel, Elizabeth, Alexander, G. W., Andrew J., was in the service of his country, and died with congestive chills after the siege of Vicksburg; James S., Nancy, Sarah A., Maria, Thomas, Mary. The parents were members of the Seceder Church. He began poor, and at death was the owner of considerable property. Our subject attended the common schools, and was married January 9, 1862, to Wilhelmina, daughter of Henry and Catharine (Lewis) Baughman, natives of Germany, who came to America in 1847, settled in the neighborhood of Clarksville, and in 1854 came to Springfield Township. Here he died in 1877 and she in 1868. Their children were: William, Christina, John, Henry, Albert, Louesa and Wilhelmina. Her parents were Lutherans at Blacktown.  Mr. and Mrs. Palmer have ten children: Archie E., Ida L., Cora, Quincy, Harry, Frank B., Charles W., Anson L., Minnie F. and Floyd C. He and wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church at Leesburgh, of which he is an elder. He is also superintendent of the Sunday-school, and is a Democrat.

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