WILLIAM PALM married CATHERINE WHITE
“Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania” Vol. 3
Author: Jordan, John W., 1840 – 1941
Pg. 1645 PALM
The PALM family is an ancient one of Germany, the first of whom we have record being MATTHIAS PALM, who was born in Heilsbronn, near Nuremburg, Bavaria, Germany, where he was a millwright.He married SYBILLA ___.
DR. JOHN PALM was the son of MATTHIAS and SYBILLA PALM.He was born in Heilsbronn, Germany, July 25, 1718.
JOHN PALM, son of DR. JOHN PALM, married HANNAH FLICK (?).They had eleven children, all of whom, with the exception of PETER, lived in Mercer County, Pa., and Trumbull County, Ohio.
WILLIAM PALM, son of JOHN and HANNAH (FLICK) PALM, was born at Austintown, Ohio, in 1825, and died Oct. 10, 1888.In his youth he had learned the carpenter's trade, and occasionally did some building, but he devoted the greater part of his life to agricultural work.He was a Democrat, and he served as school director and road supervisor.In 1847 he purchased a farm in Sandy Creek Township.He married, in 1847, CATHERINE WHITE, born in Ohio in 1824.JAMES WHITE, her grandfather, came from Ireland, and settled near Youngstown, Ohio, between 1760 and 1770.His son, WILLIAM WHITE, father of MRS. PALM, came from Ohio and settled in Sandy Creek in 1837, and died in 1858; he married ELEANOR FARREL, who died in 1882.MR. and MRS. PALM had children: ANDREW JACKSON; MILTON, born Dec. 29, 1849, died March 21, 1881; FANNY EMMA, born October 2, 1851; WILLIAM JEFFERSON, born Aug. 8, 1853; MYRTA ELLEN, born March 6, 1861.
ANDREW JACKSON PALM, son of WILLIAM and CATHERINE (WHITE) PALM, was born in Sandy Creek Township, Mercer County, Pa., June 21, 1848.He obtained his education at the public schools near his home, the Sheakleyville Academy, Jamestown Seminary, New Lebanon Academy, and the Edinboro State Normal School, from which he was graduated in the class of June, 1871.His connection with schools, as a teacher and in other capacities, is as follows: Taught two years in the public schools of Pymatuning Township, Pa.; served as principal of town schools at Cooperstown, Pa., 1871-72, 1872-73; New Lebanon Academy, Pa., 1873-75; Academy and public schools, West Middlesex, Pa., 1875-77; was elected county superintendent of Mercer County schools in May, 1878, and served until June, 1884.
MR. PALM was the owner and editor of The Western Press, in Mercer County, Pa., from 1884 to 1890, when he moved to Meadville, Pa.During this time he had written a book, entitled, “The Death Penalty,” an argument against capital punishment, which was published by the Putnams, and which has found a place in all the leading libraries of the country.In 1909 he commenced the publication of The American Journal of Politics, a monthly journal in New York.Two years later the name was changed to that of The American Magazine of Civics, and in 1896 it was merged with The Arena, of Boston.For a number of years he has now edited the Meadville Messenger, and is the treasurer-editor of the Meadville (pg. 1646) Messenger Printing Company...MR. PALM married, at New Lebanon, Pa., Oct. 1, 1875, LENA COUNSELMAN, born in French Creek Township in October, 1857.She is a daughter of JOEL COUNSELMAN, a farmer, who died in 1892.He married SARAH CLINGER, and their other children were: RACHEL, married A. R. MOORE, of Franklin, Pa.; ELIZABETH, married JAMES STERLING, of Franklin, Pa.; PRISCILLA, now deceased, married JAMES N. DILLEY, of Brazil,Indiana; PETER S. married MARY BELL, and is a resident of Franklin, Pa.MR. and MRS. PALM have had children: 1. CHARLES J., born in West Middlesex, Pa., April 19, 1876; married in 1907, FRANCIS FISHER.2. BESSIE, born in West Middlesex, Pa., May 22, 1878; married, March 12, 1904, VICTOR S. ARNOLD, and lives at Wilkinsburg, Pa.; children: ROBERT VICTOR and ELIZABETH PALM.3. ADA BELLE, born in Mercer, Pa., June 7, 1880.4. LORENA GLADYS, born in Mercer, Pa., June 10, 1884; married the REV. LOUIS W. SHERWIN, minister of the First Presbyterian Church at Indianapolis, Indiana.