Charles C Palmer

PALMER, EAVES, VANCE, LEMMON

Posted By: Dana Roquet (email)
Date: 11/30/2010 at 19:58:58

History of Wapello County
Published 1901

Charles C Palmer, a prominent stock raiser and cattle dealer of Eddyville, Wapello county, Iowa, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, in 1845, and is a son of Jesse and Ellen (Eaves) Palmer.
Jesse Palmer was reared and schooled in Ohio, and when a young man learned the carpenter’s trade and also that of a millwright, which he followed until 1861. He located in Muscatine county, Iowa, in 1854, and in August, 1855, moved to Eddyville, Wapello county, Iowa. He later purchased a farm in Mahaska county, on which he carried on farming until 1866, when he moved to Monroe County, Iowa. There he purchased a farm which he is still operating. He and his wife were born in Ohio. They became the parents of 10 children, of whom five are now living, namely; Charles C.; Hannah A.; W.R.; O.C. and Jesse. Politically, he has shown preference for the Republican party.

Charles C. Palmer attended the common schools of Mahaska and Wapello counties, and remained at home until he reached the age of twenty-one years. He engaged in farming, and also bout and sold cattle and hogs. He has followed this occupation since, devoting most of his time to stock. Besides owning and conducting his own farm, he has two feed yards in Eddyville, where he feeds and handles on an average 500 head of cattle annually,--besides what he buys on the outside. He is an extensive shipper of hogs, and for the past nine years has not missed shipping at least three car-loads of hogs per week, to John Morrell & Company, Ltd., at Ottumwa, Iowa. The most of his cattle are shipped to Chicago, Illinois. He is an expert judge of stock and a good buyer and shipper, and consequently has no trouble in securing the patronage of the farmers of Wapello, Mahaska and Monroe counties.

In 1872, Mr. Palmer was united in marriage with Martha J. Vance, of Monroe county, and five children were born to them, of whom four are now living, namely; E.M., wife of
S.L. Lemmon, of Eddyville; F.A.; L.P.; and Roy. In politics Mr. Palmer is a staunch Republican, but has never aspired to office. Fraternally, he is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.