Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

L.P. PALMER, deputy circuit clerk, was born March 16, 1856, in Benton,
Marshall Co., Ky.  He is a son of Philander and S.A. (Whittamore)
Palmer.  The father was born in New Hampshire; he died in 1880, aged
fifty-eight; he was a lawyer by profession, and of rare attainments,
and few men of the county possessed a greater fund of information than
he.  He was solicitied to be a candidate for the court of appeals, but
declined the honor.  The mother was born in 1827 in Rockingham County,
N.C., and now lives in Benton, Marshall Co., Ky.  After attending the
public schools of Benton, Mr. Palmer went to Irvington, Ind.; there 
attended the Butler University one session, and in 1879 went to 
Colorado, where he remained one year, also performed clerical work 
there about one year.  In 1882 he came to Mayfield, where he has since
performed the duties of circuit clerk with marked ability and dispatch.

Palmer Whittamore 
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Benton-Marshall-KY NH Rockingham-NC IN CO

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