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| | ATKINS, PALMER FROM 1912 HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS |
 | | Palmer Atkins was his only child, born of his marriage in New York State to Jane Palmer, daughter of John Palmer, Superintendent of the Erie Canal. |
 | | His son, also named John Palmer, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was in the war of 1812, while his uncle, George Palmer, also a son of John Palmer Jr., served in the Mexican War, being fatally wounded at the battle of Chepultepec, near the city of Mexico. |
 | | Palmer Atkins was born on the site of old Fort Stanwix, (N.Y.), of Revolutionary fame, August 28, 1842, and lived in New York State until he was fourteen years of age, when he was brought by his parents to Chicago. |
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