Dr. (Henry) Palmer came to Janesville and began practice; his father's family moved to Wisconsin and settled on a farm at Edgerton.

The evidence

• “Dr. Palmer was born in New York state in 1827, graduated from Albany Medical College in 1854 and came to Janesville in 1856. At the beginning of the Civil War Dr.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/20-medical-history.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 506 / book p. 469

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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