Palmer, Alonzo bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 958, Woodland Township
Alonzo Palmer, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 5; P. O., Astoria. Alonzo Palmer is a native of the Old Dominion State; was born in 1839. He was in his fifteenth year when his parents concluded to make Illinois their home. In Fulton Co. he grew to manhood, receiving a liberal education; in 1861 he was united in marriage to Miss Nancy J. McLaren, a daughter of Wm. McLaren. They have 7 children: Isidora, Rachel A., John W., Lillian, Ashley, Charles and Nellie.