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PALMER, CAPT. J. H., farmer, section 8, P. O. Coin; Mr. Palmer was born October 10, 1838, in Ulster county, New York, where he grew to manhood and was educated in the common schools and in Ashland Seminary. Mr. Palmer enlisted August 22, 1862, in company A, One Hundred and Fifty-sixth New York volunteers. This regiment was in the department of the gulf, under Banks, in the seige of Port Hudson and the Red River campaigns; in 1864 joined Sheridan in Shenandoah Valley, and participated in his two noted battles of Winchester and Cedar Creek; from here he went to Savannah on garrison duty. Mr. Palmer was soon promoted to orderly sergeant of his company, and then to a first lieutenant, and shortly afterward to captain, which he held to the close of the war. After being in Savannah a short time Captain Palmer was placed in charge of a transport with twenty picked men to do duty on the Savannah river. At the close of the war Captain Palmer with his family moved to Carthage, Missouri, where he remained until 1872, when he came to Page county, Iowa. He was married February 22, 1860, to Miss Martha Schoomaker, of Ulster county, New York. They have six children living: Mary J., Georgia A., Ella, Carrie R., Hayes, an infant, and one deceased.