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DANIEL N. PALMER, a gallant and daring soldier during the civil contest between the northern and southern States, and who, when the strife had ended, adapted himself to the arts of agriculture and peaceful pursuits, is a son of Ralph and Mary M. (Chidester) Palmer, and was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1835. His grandfather, Nehemiah Palmer, was of English origin, the last years of his life being spent in Toronto, Canada, where he died, aged ninety years.

Ralph Palmer was born in Otsego county, this State, and moved to Warren county, Pennsylvania. In 1865 he returned to the Empire State, and settled in Harmony town, where he has resided ever since. He has retired from active life, the infirmities of age making this step imperative; but for the many years that he was engaged in farming, none had a higher reputation for skill and execution than he. He married Mary M. Chidester, of Otsego county, who died in 1884, aged seventy-seven years, and had several children.

Daniel N. Palmer spent the first sixteen years of his life in Warren county, Pennsylvania, and attended the public schools, acquiring a good ordinary education. In 1851 he went to Tuscumbia, Alabama, and drove a four-horse stage for the Louisville and Nashville railroad, remaining there four years; but in 1855 he returned north, and engaged in lumbering at Spartansburg, Pennsylvania. September 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company L, Sixteenth Regiment Pennsylvania cavalry, and served until June 15, 1865, when he was discharged at the General Hospital, near Alexandria, Virginia. The entire term was passed as a private, mostly on detail as a dispatch-bearer. When peace followed the four years of carnage and destruction, Mr. Palmer came to Chautauqua county, and settled on the farm in Portland town, four miles from Westfield, where he now lives. His property is advantageously located between the railroads and beautiful Lake Erie, and contains fifty-four acres, eight of which are set to vines that are bearing.

In the latter part of 1865 he married Helena A. White, a daughter of Levi White, of Spartansburg, Pa., and they have one daughter, — Eva M.

Daniel N. Palmer is a member of the A. O. U. W. and of James A. Hall Post, No. 292, of Brocton. He identifies himself with the Republican party, and is a very pleasant gentleman, who takes a personal interest in the welfare of public affairs.