Palmer, Jacob 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 454-455, Astoria Township
Jacob Palmer, retired farmer, settled in Woodland tp. a quarter of a century ago. He is a native of Maryland, where he was born Jan. 16, 1809. His father was also a native of Md., and in that State married Miss Susan Hiller, with whom he reared a family of nine children. George Palmer, Jacob's father, moved to Ohio, when the subject of this sketch was in his infancy. He grew up in Jefferson Co., and received a "round-log-cabin education." He lived in Virginia for 5 years and there married Elizabeth Longstreth, in Sept., 1836. He came to Ill. in 1853, and purchased 160 acres of heavily timbered land, which he set about clearing with his usual energy, and this is now a well improved farm. In 1876, he moved into Astoria and purchased town property. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. P. has been blessed with 10 children, 8 of whom are Living, - John, Alonzo, Joel, George, Loyd, Melissa, Mary, Ann, Alice, Susan and Sarah.