TRUMAN F. PALMER was born in Steuben County, Ind., January 7, 1851, and is one of the two children born to Truman F. and Plurnea (Perry) Palmer. His father, a native of New York, was a graduate of Allegheny College, of Meadville, Penn., and a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died ten days after the birth of our subject, and his widow shortly afterward came to White County and engaged in school teaching she is now living in Burnettsville. Truman F. Palmer, Jr., was reared in this county and attended the public schools ; then for two years attended the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute, then for nine months at the Farmer's Institute at Clinton, and graduated from the State University at Bloomington in 1872, receiving his degree of LLB. He taught school and practiced law until 1875, and then for four years was Deputy County Clerk at Monticello. He then resumed practice, and in March, 1881, formed his present partnership with M. M. Sill, under the firm name of Sill & Palmer. Mr. Palmer is a Republican, a, Mason, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias.

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