Sedgwick County KSGenWeb

Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kan.

Chapman Brothers 1888

Page 773 

W.H. PALMER, proprietor of the Union Meat Market, at No. 326 North Main street, does a business of about $35,000 per year, and gives employment to four or six men, running two delivery wagons, and maintaining his standing among that class of enterprising and energetic men to whose industry the present city of Wichita owns her progress and prosperity. This business has been conducted with ample capital and the best of judgment, and is patronized by the best people who can by any means gain access to it. Mr. Palmer deals only in domestic stock, accepting no inferior cattle in his yards.

            Our subject, who is of English and French descent, was born in New York City in 1852, where he received a common-school education, and early in life became familiar with the business which he is still prosecuting. He is the son of Isaac H. and Theresa M. Palmer, natives of New York, and now of Paxton, Ill. His father was a wealthy man, and owned a fine farm in Clinton County, N. Y., near Ft. Plattsburg on Lake Champlain.

            Our subject, in 1869, when a youth of seventeen, left his native State and migrated to Paxton, Ill., where he soon afterward set up an establishment with his father. This is still in operation, being owned by his father, Isaac Palmer. Our subject was joined by his father in this enterprise, and the two continued together until his removal to Wichita in 1887.

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