30 Facts About Bradley Palmer

Bradley Webster Palmer was a prominent US attorney and businessman.

Bradley Palmer was involved with the creation and development of multiple corporations, including the United Fruit Company, Gillette Safety Razor Corp.

Bradley Palmer was part of the American delegation at the Paris Peace Conference following the First World War.

From 1937 to 1944, Palmer donated his extensive land holdings to the state of Massachusetts.

Bradley Palmer sailed on the vessel Fortune in 1621 from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, settling finally in Duxbury.

Bradley Palmer was born on June 28,1866, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Bradley Palmer's mother, Ellen W Palmer, was an essential figure in fighting for the rights of breaker boys in Pennsylvania.

Bradley Palmer promoted child literacy and appropriate wages, equal to those of adults for the work done by the boys.

Until the 1990s a statue of Ellen Bradley Palmer stood on the city commons in Wilkes-Barre.

Bradley Palmer's parents sent him to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he was admitted at the age of 16 in 1882.

Bradley Palmer was a treasurer of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of the Hasty Pudding Club.

Bradley Palmer played football and baseball for his class teams, and he was a member of the Institute of 1770, Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Historical Club, the Finance Club, the St Paul's Society, and the Varsity Club.

Bradley Palmer stayed on an extra year in Harvard University School of Law, earning the AM in 1889.

Bradley Palmer returned to Boston in 1891 and passed the bar in Massachusetts the following year.

Until 1899 Palmer's chief work in the firm of Storey, Thorndike and Palmer had been to check the legality of bonds and then to handle the legal business of the Boston Fruit Company, the company of Andrew W Preston, a Boston banana importer.

Bradley Palmer became a director and a permanent member of the executive committee, while his law partners were listed as executives.

Bradley Palmer was a lawyer and partner with multiple Boston-based corporations, including the United Fruit Company, Gillette, and ITT Corporation.

Bradley Palmer was possibly an attorney for Sinclair Oil during the Teapot Dome scandal.

Bradley Palmer never married, but was involved in the social life of the North Shore of Massachusetts, which is relatively densely populated with horse farms.

Bradley Palmer belonged to Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton, Massachusetts, known for its equestrianism.

Bradley Palmer enjoyed numerous individualisms, such as smoking a cigar with the end stuck in a pipe bowl.

In December 1917, Bradley Palmer went to Washington DC and joined the office of Alien Property Custodian, which was charged with the investigation of attempts by German nationals to conceal their extensive property of all sorts in the United States, and with the confiscation and disposition of this property.

Bradley Palmer was appointed as counsel to the Capital Issues Committee.

Bradley Palmer then returned home and began practicing law again.

In 1898 Bradley Palmer purchased the hereditary farm holdings of the Lamson family, some 747 acres.

In 1915, Bradley Palmer renovated the mansion, moving the stables and coach house to separate buildings and replacing them with a dining room and ballroom respectively.

Bradley Palmer added an addition for a screened patio, guest rooms, and servants quarters.

Bradley Palmer died on November 9,1946, due to an unspecified pulmonary illness.

Bradley Palmer's body lay in state at Willow Dale before processing to Wilkes-Barre, PA.

Bradley Palmer was interred in Hollenback Cemetery with his mother and father.