Volume no1 of Palmer recordsProceedings, or memorial volume of the first Palmer family re-union held at Stonington, Conn., August 10 & 11, 1881, the ancestral home of Walter Palmer, the pilgrim of 1629Being also a part of the genealogical, biographical, and historical records of the family, as contained in the several addresses, etcdelivered on the occasion of the re-union . oards only, I could have made a speech. ELISHA H. PALMER, OF MONTVILLE, CT., PRESIDENT OF THE RE-UNION. (Brief Biography.) The subject of this brief sketch is a grandson of Rev. ReubenPalmer, and a son of Gideon Palmer, th
Volume no1 of Palmer recordsProceedings, or memorial volume of the first Palmer family re-union held at Stonington, Conn., August 10 & 11, 1881, the ancestral home of Walter Palmer, the pilgrim of 1629Being also a part of the genealogical, biographical, and historical records of the family, as contained in the several addresses, etcdelivered on the occasion of the re-union . oards only, I could have made a speech. ELISHA H. PALMER, OF MONTVILLE, CT., PRESIDENT OF THE RE-UNION. (Brief Biography.) The subject of this brief sketch is a grandson of Rev. ReubenPalmer, and a son of Gideon Palmer, the oldest of a family ofeleven, and was born the 23d day of June, 1814, in the town ofMontville, New London County, State of Connecticut. He re-ceived a common school education, and attended Bacon Acad-emy, in Colchester, two years. It was intended by his father togive him a college education, but sickness prevented. His fatherbeing a manufacturer of different commodities, his son becamesuch, and carried on the same business, which was mostly themanufacturing of linseed oil and paints. The first of his goingaway from home was to oversee the building and starting ma-chinery for the purpose of manufacturing cotton-seed oil in thecity of Richmond, Virginia, which was done to the satisfaction ofhis employer. He was eighteen years old at this time. He w as 1* £t <&. CB S&> c^2^W*^c_ OF THE RE-UNION. 6l the manufacturer of the first cotton-seed oil that was made inthis country, which is now one of the great industries of theSouth. About this time there was more important business toattend to, and he was united in marriage to Miss Ellis Loomis,Thanksgiving day, Nov. 30, 1837. The following Spring hewent to Rockwell, Illinois, with his father, to erect a steam saw-mill, and sawed the first plank to construct the canal locks atthe terminus of the canal near Losee. Was taken sick withfever and ague in the Fall, and had to return home. In 1840,went to Norwich, and carried on the who
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