Palmer H. Vader
He was born in Chautauqua county, New York, November 14, 1857, the son of Isaiah and Lodema (Rider) VADER, the former a native of New York state and the latter of Vermont. They were married in New York and farmed there until 1868. Isaiah VADER enlisted at Ellington, Chautauqua Co NY 30 August 1862 at age 41 in the 7th Co. 1st SS Reg. NY Mustered Out at Albany, NY on 09 June 1865
After the close of the war, the family moved, in 1868, to Green county, Iowa, and there Isaiah became one of the extensive farmers of the Mississippi valley, owning
large farms in Greene and the adjoining county of Carroll. His first wife,Lodema , the mother of the subject of this biography, died in 1880, and he married again, the second wife surviving him ,when he died at Glidden, Carroll county, Iowa, aged eighty years. Of the first
marriage six sons and three daughters were born, five of whom are
living, Palmer having been the third of the nine. He was eleven years
old when the family moved to Iowa, and he grew to manhood on the
family farm in that state, receiving his education in the common
schools. In the spring of 1876 he went to Colorado, and during the first two years of his residence here he was employed on a ranch near Longmont. From there he moved to Denver and in that city he worked two years in a feed and sales stable. In November, 1880, he became a stage driver on the line between Canon City and Silver Cliff, and the next spring became a resident of Gunnison county and was employed in driving a stage from Parlin east over Alpine Pass to connect with the Denver & South Park (now the Colorado Southern) Railroad, which was then in course of construction. He continued to be so occupied until June, 1882, when the road was completed to Pitkin. He then worked for a time on a ranch, after which he kept a boarding house and later was in the employ of the Denver & Southern Pacific Railroad. In the meantime he had got together a number of cattle and bought one hundred and sixty
acres of land, a part of his present ranch, and in 1887 he located on
this land and began to improve it as a home and make it productive for
his family and the maintenance of his stock.
. On July 11, 1882, Palmer married Miss Maggie STANTON, a native of Muscatine, Iowa, a daughter of John and Catherine (Rush) Stanton, who were born, reared and married in Ireland, and came to the United States soon after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Vader
have had ten children, seven of whom are living, Francis W., Hattie M.,
Richard I., Margaret E., Joseph D. H., Henry D. and Julia. Those
deceased are Katie,(Catherine d 1883) John d(1889) and Grace (d 1898).
Palmer Vader was highly respected for his sterling worth and usefulness.
Palmer H Vader died June 10, 1916
He is buried with several others of his VADER family in the Gunnison Cemetery Gunnison County, Colorado,