Palmer, J. W.

PALMER

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Date: 1/12/2009 at 16:20:23

J. W. Palmer

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.48, Council Bluffs)
J. W. Palmer, dentist, Council Bluffs, was born in Vinton, Benton Co., Iowa, September 2, 1861; lived there four years, then moved to Iowa City. After residing in Iowa City for six years, he moved to Harrison County, Iowa where he lived until the fall of 1879, when he came to Council Bluffs. Mr. Palmer began the study of dentistry under Drs. Swinton & West on Pearl street, Council Bluffs, in the spring of 1882, and purposes completing the study of his profession at the Iowa City Dental College. he is a son of Capt. J. E. Palmer, of Company A, Twenty-eighth Iowa Volunteers, who was born in Ohio in 1821, and who was killed September 19, 1864, at the battle of Winchester, his remains being brought back to Vinton, Iowa, for interment. Subject's mother was born in Essex County, N. Y., in 1822, and was married at Vinton, Iowa, in 1856, and resided there until 1862. (From the 1882 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa)