Palmer Enerson attended grade and high school in Valley City and University in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He graduated from an Electrical Engineering School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1916. On returning to Valley City he owned a battery shop but sold it to enter the U.S. Air Corps in April 1917 to serve in World War I. Returning in May 1919 he was employed by Municipal Utilities and served as Assistant Superintendent for thirty-eight years, when he retired to his own business of Watt hour meter testing.

The maternal grandparents of Palmer, Christian and Gurine Hendrickson, came to Dakota Territory in 1878 from Minnesota, and settled on a farm northeast of Kathryn, near Daily, an inland post office. The family came from Norway right after the Civil War, settling near Rushford, Minnesota. They had three children: Gustav, Tom and Hilda. They came in a covered wagon drawn by oxen team, fording the Sheyenne River. The young men never married but Hilda became the wife of John Enerson and mother of Palmer.

Palmer Enerson married Edna Hanson, July 6, 1929 in the living room of the Enerson home, where they lived for over forty-four years. They have one daughter, Donna, who married Robert L. Leegard in 1952.. They have three children and live in Philadelphia, PA, where Dr. Leegard works in his profession of anesthesiology at a hospital. The Enersons' home for sixty-one years was sold last September 1974 after the death of Palmer. Mrs. Enerson now lives in an apartment in Valley City.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 63