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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, 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, 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, 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 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.