Walter B. Palmer
Source: Biographical & Genealogical Record of LaSalle Co., Ill - 1900
[Page 80] WALTER B. PALMER - Justin PALMER, the great-great-grandfather of our subject, was a resident of Norwich, Connecticut, where his son Ephraim was born December 17, 1760. On August 27, 1786 the latter married Margaret FORCE, and he died June 30, 1852. He was in the Revolutionary War. His eldest son, Thomas FORCE PALMER, was born June 13, 1787 and may 30, 1815 he married Rebecca SNOW. They became parents of six children, the 3rd child and 2nd son being Ephraim M. PALMER, who was born December 13, 1828 in Cattaraugus Co., New York. In 1831, the family moved to Medina County, Ohio and Ephraim PALMER spent the next eighteen years on a farm there. In 1847 he moved to Sugar Grove, Kendall Co., Illinois, and in 1849 to Freedom twp., La Salle County, Ill. In 1849 he went to California, where he spent eight years. Then returned to Freedom twp, and soon after purchased a farm in Ophir twp. June 13, 1861, Ephraim married Miss Sarah BUTLER, of Ophir twp., this county. She was the eldest child of Ebenezer and Nancy (BUTTERFIELD) BUTLER. On the father’s side of the family they are descendents of Nicholas BUTLER, who was born at Martha’s Vineyard in 1662. His son, Benjamin BUTLER, was married in 1769 to Amy DAGGETT, and in 1790 they became parents of a son, Benjamin Jr., who was born in Martha’s Vineyard and he married Huldah BRADFORD, a relative of Governor BRADFORD, of Massachusetts. They moved to Avon, Maine, where Benjamin, their second son was born May 18, 1808. There, Benjamin BUTLER married Nancy BUTTERFIELD on December 24, 1833, and on November 16, 1834, they became parents of a daughter, Sarah, whose birth occurred in Anson, Maine, and who in 1861 became the wife of Mr. PALMER. On the maternal side, Mrs. PALMER traces her ancestry back to Jonas BUTTERFIELD, who was born in Dunstable, Massachusetts, September 12, 1742. He and four brothers were in the Revolutionary War. His son, John BUTTERFIELD was born April 16, 1780 and on June 25, 1800 married Sybil WILLERD who was born August 17, 1782. Their daughter, Nancy BUTTERFIELD was born September 25, 1808 and became the wife of Ebenezer BUTLER, and mother of Mrs. PALMER. Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim PALMER had two children: Carrie, born September 1, 1865 and died September 30, 1865; and Walter, born June 22, 1868. In 1881, a niece of Mrs. PALMER, then an infant, came to live with them and has since been a daughter. Her name is Agnes BUTLER, also called Agnes PALMER. He died January 30, 1892. Walter B. PALMER, his only surviving child, was married September 1889, to Miss Ina LARDIN, a daughter of John and Elizabeth LARDIN, and a sister of Judge A. T. LARDIN of Ottawa. She died May 1891. In November 1893, Walter B., and mother came to Ottawa to live. In December 1894 he married Miss Mary Frances WHITE, daughter of William and Nellie (BARGER) WHITE, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, where her father was a lawyer.
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