Tuscola-Saginaw County MI Archives Biographies.....Palmer, Albert J. 1861 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

ALBERT J. PALMER. The gentleman whose name appears above is a resident of
Gagetown, and was born in Barry, Ontario, Canada, December 21, 1861, and is a
son John and Maria (Verrall) Palmer. His father was born in Cornwall, England,
and his mother in the same country in the city of Brighton, Sussex County, the
former devoting himself to agricultural pursuits while in his native land and
came to America in 1853, locating at Toronto. In 1874 he started for Australia
but died while making preparations for the trip in New York City. He had
previously traveled through South America and indeed had spent much of his life
in seeing the different countries of the Western Hemisphere.

  Our subject was given the advantages of a common-school education, only
discontinuing his attendance at the age of seventeen years. He came to the
United States in 1869, proceeding at once to Michigan and locating in Tuscola
County, where he soon after went into business at Gagetown. The original of our
sketch was accompanied hither by his mother who soon contracted a second
marriage, her husband being William Carr, of Gagetown.

  Albert Palmer began life in this place as a clerk for Joseph Gage and was
employed here in that capacity for some time, leaving this position only to go
to Saginaw where he became engaged as salesman for W. H. Clark, a dry-goods
merchant in that city. After remaining with Mr. Clark for four years our subject
returned to Canada, going to Toronto where he staid for two years and then
returned to Gagetown. In October, 1890, he opened a general store here for the
sale of dry-goods, groceries, boots and shoes, and since that time has been very
successful in his business. He carries a well-assorted and selected stock of
goods that is perfectly adapted for the patronage it has from the agricultural
region surrounding Gagetown.

  Mr. Palmer was married September 10, 1890, his bride being Miss Thirza Hall,
of Akron, Mich. She is a daughter of John Hall who has for a long time been
engaged in the agricultural calling in that place. Our subject is a follower of
the Republican policy and theories and has all faith in the future of his party.
He is allied socially with the Free Masons and is a member of the Knights of the
Maccabees. Although our subject has but recently started in the business of
which he is proprietor, it is now most encouraging for the future, his first
year's sales amounting to $8,000.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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