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Paine, Timothy Otis – Palmer, Benjamin Morgan
Paine, Timothy Otis
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 13, 1824, in Winslow, Maine. He was a Swedenborgian clergyman of Elmwood, Mass.; and the author of Solomon's Temple and Capitol and Idolatrous High Places. He died in 1895.
Paine, William Henry
lawyer, was born Feb. 23, 1863, in Milan, N. H.
He received a liberal education, and graduated from the Harvard Law school. He has served as justice of the peace; has been solicitor for Rockingham county, N.
H.; and for six years was a member of the school board of Newmarket, N. H. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Berlin, N. H.
Palen, Joseph G
lawyer, jurist, was born in New York. He was appointed chief justice of the supreme court for the territory of New Mexico. He died Dec. 21, 1875, in Santa Fe, N. M. was
Palen, Rufus
congressman, born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841.
Palfrey, John Carver
soldier, banker, educator, author, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. He was brevetted major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel, and brigadier-general, United States army, in 1865. He became overseer of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering in Dartmouth in 1868, and is a vice-president of the Webster bank in Boston.
Palfrey, Sarah Hammond
author, poet, was born Dec. 11, 1823, in Boston, Mass. She is a novelist and poet of Cambridge. Her work in verse comprises Prémices; Sir Pavon and St. Pavon; The Chapel; The Blossoming Rod; and Agnes Wentworth. In fiction she has published Katharine Morne; and Herman, or Young Knighthood.
Palmer, Aaron
educator, writer,. was born Dec. 26, 1860, in Mount Carroll, Ill. He has attained success in educational work; in 1888-89 was superintendent of schools at Savanna, and has since been superintendent of schools in Oxford Junction and Anamosa, Iowa. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press on educational and other topics.
He
Palmer, Albert Gallatin
cler-- gyman, author, poet, was born May 11, 1813, in North Stonington, Conn. has spent his ministerial life in preaching to the baptist church in Stonington borough, Conn. Besides a large number of published sermons, he is the author of an Historical Discourse; and many poems, among them a translation of the Dies. Iræ. He has issued a collection of these, with the title Psalms of Faith and Songs of Life.
Palmer, Albert Marshman
theater-manager, was born July 27, 1838, in North Stonington, Conn. He served as librarian of the Mercantile library in New York city. In June, 1872, he assumed the management of the Union Square theater in New York, and continued there until 1882; and in 1884 assumed control of the Madison Square theater in New York. He is one of the founders of the Actors' fund of America, and is now its president.
Palmer, Alice Elvira
educator, college president, was born Feb. 21, 1855, in Colesville, N. Y. In 1879 she was appointed professor in history in the Wellesley college; and in 1882 she became president of that college.
Palmer, Anthony
governor, was born in England. He was a justice of the peace and of the county courts of Philadelphia county from 1718 until 1732, and for several years one of the judges of the court of common pleas. He was colonial governor for many years. He died in May, 1749, in Philadelphia, Pa.
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.