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LLOYD H. PALMERTON
Lloyd
H. Palmerton, one of Loyalton’s respected and useful
citizens, is the capable assistant cashier and assistant secretary of the
Sierra Valley Bank. He was born on his
father’s farm at Springville, Erie County, New York, February 16, 1895, a son
of Myron E. and Almyra (Williams) Palmerton, the
former a native of Illinois and the latter of New York. The mother died when her son Lloyd was twenty
years of age, leaving three sons and four daughters, of whom Lloyd is the only
one now living in California. The
youngest son, Loren, who was formerly for about six years employed as a lumber
grader for the Clover Valley Lumber Company at Loyalton,
is now with the Kesterson Lumber Company, at Klamath
Falls, Oregon. The father, who is now
seventy-six years of age, lives at Springville, New York. The Palmerton family
is of English origin and the name was formerly spelled “Palmerston.”
Lloyd
H. Palmerton was reared on his father’s farm and early became familiar with the
work of the fields. He attended the
district schools of his home neighborhood and the high school at Springville,
after which he took a commercial course in a business college in Buffalo, New
York. After completing his studies he
continued his farm work until the home place was sold by his father. He then hired out by the month, working on
various farms in New York, and was so engaged when drafted for service in the
World War. He became a member of Company
L, Three Hundred Ninth Infantry, was soon transferred to a replacement
battalion and after four months’ training at Camp Dix, New Jersey, was ordered
overseas, landing at Brest, France, January 31, 1918. He saw much active service, spending six
weeks in the Cantigny campaign. He had
gone to France with the replacement battalion for the First Division of
Regulars and saw some very hard fighting at the Aisne and the Marne from the 19th
to the 21st of July. On the
last day he was seriously wounded in the right knee, and was also a victim of
poison and mustard gas. For six months
he was in the United States Base Hospital at Limoges, and for three months in
the American Base Hospital at Bordeaux.
On April 6, 1919, he returned to the United States and was honorably
discharged at Camp Upton, New York, May 17, 1919. He returned at once to his New York home,
where he remained about a month and on June 19th, started for the
west. Stopping off near Hastings,
Nebraska, he hired out as a farm laborer, but his wound and the poison gas superinduced blood poisoning and after six weeks in a
hospital at Hastings without getting relief, he started for California,
arriving here in December, 1919. He
first went to Oakdale, Stanislaus County, and engaged in ranching near
Purcell. He drove a six-horse team in
putting in a crop of grain, after which he took a job as truck driver at
Oakdale, but he continued to suffer from his war injuries and in May, 1920,
took advantage of the government’s offer to disabled soldiers and entered the
Sacramento Business College for vocational training. After thoroughly review the commercial course
in Heald’s Business College, and taking a short post-graduate
course, he accepted a position as bookkeeper for the United States Rubber
Company at Sacramento in March, 1921, and remained with that concern until June,
1923. There was then an opening in the
Sierra Valley Bank for an assistant cashier and Mr. Palmerton accepted the
place and has been identified with this bank to the present time, being also
its assistant secretary. He is a hard
worker, is thorough and dependable in everything he does, and has proven well
qualified for the position which he holds.
While
a student in Heald’s Business College, Mr. Palmerton
formed the acquaintance of and married Miss Eunice Miller, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Miller, the former a prominent rancher at Sierraville
and now chairman of the board of supervisors of Sierra County. He was born at Sierraville
and is a graduate of Heald’s Business College at
Sacramento. Mr. and Mrs. Palmerton own a
comfortable and attractive home in Loyalton and are
the parents of a son, Melvin, now five years of age.
Mr. Palmerton is a Republican in his
political views and has shown a helpful interest in those things which pertain
to the development and prosperity of the community. He is a member of Loyalton
Lodge, No. 359, F. & A. M. at Loyalton, and
Darrel Dunkel Post, No. 1, American Legion, at Reno,
Nevada. His possesses a pleasing
personality, is friendly in manner, and since coming to this city has a won a
high place in public esteem.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3 Pages 170-172. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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