Palmer, Benjamin Morgan – Palmer, Robert M
Palmer, Benjamin Morgan
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 25, 1781, in Philadelphia. He was pastor for several years of the presbyterian church in Beaufort, S. C., and from 1817 till 1835 of a church in Charleston. In addition to numerous sermons he published The Family Companion. He died Oct. 9, 1847, in Charleston, S. C.
Palmer, Benjamin Morgan
clergyman, author, was born Jan. 25, 1818, in Charleston, S. C. He is a presbyterian minister of New Orleans; and the author of Life and Letters of James Thornwell; Sermons; The Family in its Civil and Churchly Aspects; Formation of Character; The Broken Home; and Theology of Prayer.
Palmer, Beriah
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served four years in the assembly of New York from Saratoga county; and was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1805.
Palmer, C. S
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Nov. 2, 1844, in Underhill, Vt. In 1876 and 1877 he was state's attorney for Chittenden county, Vt., and in 1880 and 1881 was a representative in the Vermont legislature. In 1882 he was appointed assistant United States attorney for the territory of Dakota; and in 1883 was appointed a member of the territorial board of tax commissioners. In 1884 he was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the territory of Dakota. He was judge advocate general for Dakota for the year 1885.
Palmer, Charles James
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 4, 1854, in Fairfield, Maine. He has filled pastorates in Bangor, Maine, and Lanesboro, Mass.; and is the author of a History of Lanesboro, Lenox and Otis, Mass.
Palmer, Courtlandt
lawyer, author, was born March 25, 1843, in New York city. He established the Nineteenth Century club of New York city in 1880, and as the president of that organization delivered many addresses and contributed largely to the literature of free thought. He died July 23, 1888, at Lake Dunmore, Vt.
Palmer, Elihu
clergyman, author, was born in 1764 in Canterbury, Conn.
He was a writer of New York city who was in his early career a congregational minister, but became a deist and a poli- He was the author of tical agitator.
The Principles of Nature; and Prospect or View of the Moral World from 1804.
He died April 7, 1806, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Palmer, Fanny Purdy
public official, author, poet, was born July 11, 1839, in New York city. She is auditor of the general federation of women's clubs; president of the Short Story club of Providence, R. I., and identified in various other ways with women's club interests. She has served several terms on the school committee of Providence; has been member of the board a of visitors to state institutions where women are imprisoned; and in 1894 was appointed state inspector of factories and workshops, which involves a great deal of important public work. She is the author of A Dead Level, and Other Episodes, and a volume of poems.
Palmer, Francis Wayland
journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 11, 1827, in Manchester, Ind. He worked as a journeyman printer in New York city; and was for ten years the publisher and editor of the Jamestown Journal, in Chautauqua county. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1853 and 1854. He moved to Iowa in 1858, and became editor and part owner of the Dubuque Times. In 1860 he was elected printer for the state, holding the office eight years. In 1868 he elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second congress as a republican. was
Palmer, George Herbert
educator, author, was born in 1814 in Massachusetts. He is professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity at Harvard university. He has published The New Education, and an English translation of the Odyssey in rhythmic prose.
Palmer, George W
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 13, 1818, in Hoosick, N. Y. He was surrogate of Clinton county from 1843 to 1847; and a representative in the thirty-fifth congress from New York. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. In 1866 he was appointed a judge of the mixed court at Sierra Leone, under the treaty with Great Britain for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade.
PALMER, MRS. HENRIETTA [LEE], author, was born Feb. 6, 1834, in Baltimore, Md. She is the author of The Stratford Gallery, or the Shakespeare Sisterhood; Home Life in the Bible; and The Heroines of Shakespeare.
Palmer, Henry E
soldier, legislator, was born July 31, 1841, in Madison, Ohio. He was the first white settler in the Big Horn mountain region of Wyoming, and was captured by the Indians and kept a prisoner three weeks. For twenty years he has been in the business of general insurance, and has become prominent in various societies.
Palmer, Horatio Richmond
musician, author, was born Sept. 26, 1834, in Sherburne, N. Y. He is the author of Elements of Musical Composition; and Theory of Music.
Palmer, Innis Newton
soldier, was born March 30, 1824, in Buffalo, N.
Y. He was brigadier-general in the union army at Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill.
Palmer, James Shedden
naval officer, was born in 1810 in New Jersey.
He served in the United States navy during the civil war; and for meritorious services received the rank of rear admiral.
He died Dec. 7, 1867.
Palmer, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1785 in Hoosick, N. Y. He was elected from New York a representative to congress in 1817, but before the expiration of his term was chosen district attorney for Clinton county, in which capacity he served until 1831. During that year he was made the first judge of said county, and held the office until 1836. He was again elected to congress in 1837, and served one term. He died Dec. 8, 1840, in the West Indies.
Palmer, John Mcauley
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 13, 1817, in Scott county, Ky.
In 1843 he was elected probate judge of Macoupin county, Ill.; in 1847 was elected a member of the convention to amend the state constitution; in 1848 was re-elected probate judge, and in November of the same year was elected county judge, which office he held until 1852, when he was elected to the state senate to fill a vacancy; and was elected again in 1854.
In 1859 he was a candidate for congress..
In 1861 he was elected colonel of the fourteenth regiment of Illinois infantry; was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers; and was promoted to major-general of volunteers. He removed to Springfield in 1867; and was elected governor of Illinois in 1868. In 1890 he was elected United States senator.
Palmer, John Williamson
physician, author, was born April 4, 1825, in Baltimore, Md. He was a physician and writer of Baltimore and subsequently of New York city. He was the author of The Queen's Heart: a Comedy; The Beauties and Curiosities of Engraving; After His Kind, a novel; The Golden Dragon, or Up and Down the Irrawaddi; and The New and the Old, or California and India. He died in 1896.
Palmer, Joseph
soldier, congress-- man, was born in 1718 in Massachusetts..
He was a member of the provincial con-- gress in 1777. In 1777 he was appointed: brigadier-general commanding the Mas-- sachusetts militia in the defense of Rhode Island. He died Dec. 25, 1788, in Rox-- bury, Mass. au-
Palmer, Julius Auboineau
thor, was born in 1840 in Massachusetts..
He is the author of About Mushrooms; Memories of Hawaii; One Voyage and its Consequences; Mushrooms of America; and Again in Hawaii.
Palmer, Minnie
actress, was born March 3, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has attained a national reputation as a successful actress.
Palmer, Mrs. Phoebe Worrell
. evangelist, author, was born Dec. 18, 1807,. in New York city. She was a Wesleyan evangelist of New York city, whose writing is mainly concerned with the doctrine of perfection. She was the author of The Way of Holiness; Entire Devotion; Faith and its Effect; Promises of the Father; Four Years in the Old World; and Pioneer Experiences. She died Nov.. 2, 1874, in New York city.
Palmer, Potter
financier, was born in 1826 in Rensselaerville, N. Y. He built the Palmer house and erected a number of other buildings and became one of the most energetic of that group of confident men who evoked a greater Chicago from the ashes of the conflagration of 1871. The Lake Shore drive originated with Mr. Palmer.
Palmer, Ray
clergyman, author, poet, was born Nov. 12, 1808, in Little Compton, R. I. He was a congregational clergyman of Albany, widely known as a writer of hymns, the most famous of which is, My Faith Looks up to Thee.
Home, or the Unlost Paradise; Spiritual Improvement; Closet Hours; Hymns and Poems; Hymns of My Holy Hours; Remember Me; and Voices of Hope and Gladness.
Palmer, Robert M
journalist, lawyer, state senator, was born in 1820 in Mount Holly, N. J. In 1850 he was elected district attorney for Schuylkill county, N. J.; and subsequently to the state senate, over which he presided as speaker. In 1861 he was appointed minister to the Argentine Confederation, but compelled to resign on account of his health. He died April 26, 1862, at sea. was