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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