G. D. Palmer

HAZARD, PALMER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 10:19:15

G. D. Palmer, Winterset, editor of the Winterset News; born in New York, in 1819; he removed to Toledo, Ohio in 1840, and edited the Toledo Register, and afterward removed to Iowa City, and edited the Iowa Capitol Reporter, and was the first state printer; he was auditor of Johnson county for six years; from 1862 to 1864 he edited the Janesville Monitor, at Janesville, Wisconsin; he came to this county in 1875, and since that time has been engaged in his present occupation; he married Miss Alice H. Hazard in 1851; she was born in East Feliciana, Louisiana; has two children: Delia H. and Lizzie A.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 547