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.