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K. R. PALMER is a prominent member of that class of business men so utterly indispensable in any community, a butcher and meat-market man, and owns one of the largest and most completely equipped markets in this section. His qualifications for the business are partly inherited, as his father was also a practical butcher and market-man. Amos Palmer (grandfather) was born in Massachusetts, and came to Chautauqua county and settled in Fredonia, where he opened a blacksmith shop, being considered a very fine workman. He married and they had seven sons: Levi, Alonzo, Alvinsy, Nelson, Stephen, Orange and Charles. Orange Palmer (father) was born in Massachusetts and came with his father to this county and learned thoroughly the trade of a butcher with a Mr. Hughes. After a few years devoted to this business, he, with his brother Nelson, opened a meat-market and conducted it until his death, which occurred in October, 1861. In politics he was a democrat. He was a member of Forest Lodge No. 386, F. & A. M. at Fredonia. He was married to Lucy Comstock and had three children, one son and two daughters: Cassia married Benjamin Pond an operator in the stock exchange; Elzora (deceased) was married to Charles E. Bartram, a butcher; and one whose name is not given. Mrs. Palmer died in 1865 and was buried beside her husband.

K. R. Palmer was born in Fredonia, Chautauqua county, New York, July 3, 1844, and is a son of Orange and Lucy (Comstock) Palmer. He was educated in the common schools, and worked in his father’s market. In 1868 he, with his cousin, George H. Palmer opened a meat-market, under the firm name of Palmer & Palmer, and have more than kept pace with the demand of the times.

K. R. Palmer is a member of the Baptist church, of which body he has been a trustee for several years. He was elected a member of the board of trustees of Fredonia on the democratic ticket in March 1889 and still holds the office. He has also been the chief of the fire department since 1885. K. R. Palmer was married to Florence E. Powell, a daughter of Charles Powell, a pattern-maker in Brooks’ Locomotive works at Dunkirk, this county.