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F Hannah Keating

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Kent County, J. H. Beers, 1905, pp. 344-345:
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John Palmer, father of Reuben C., inherited his father's aggressive powers and taste for agricultural pursuits. Born near Hamilton in 1807, he was reared on his father's farm there. In 1834, a young man of twenty-seven, he married and at once removed west, settling in the County of Lambton, and there, in Sombra township, on Lot 11, Concession 6, secured a tract of land and engaged in farming for himself. After his father's arrival, however, and large land purchase in that vicinity, the son exchanged his 100-acre tract in Lot 11 for seventy-five acres of the elder Mr. Palmer's property, along the river front. On this new land, embracing parts of Lots 12 and 13, Concession 6, Mr. Palmer settled and began work. A marvel of industry, it was but a short time before he had transformed the wild waste into a neat and well cultivated farm. Here he spent the rest of his life, dying there in 1866. During his young manhood Mr. Palmer married Hannah Keating, a good Christian woman, of refinement, who died in 1841. By this union there were three children: Mary Ann died at the age of eighteen years, and Isaac at the age of two years. Reuben C. is mentioned below...