Husband of K. Percy Palmer and Elisabeth Palmer
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MEMORIAL OF MASON PALMER.
From the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, January 15, 1870.
On Thursday died one of the oldest of our citizens, one of the few who still remained of those who lived here when Detroit was hardly more than a hamlet, and who had witnessed all its development and prosperity. He was born in Connecticut in 1788, and was therefore 81 years of age at the time of his death. During his youth and early manhood he resided in the State of his birth, and made Hartford his home for a great part of the time. In 1830, or about that time, he removed to Detroit, where his surviving brother, Mr. John Palmer, had resided since 1818, and joined him in a general mercantile business which was first conducted on Jefferson avenue, near where the hat and fur store of Mr. F. Buhl now stands. They continued in trade together for some six years, when John sold out to his brother Mason, and the latter then carried on the business singly for some eight years longer. Afterwards he became the agent of the old Protection Insurance Company of Hartford, and the Connecticut Fire, and remained in this branch of business until his retirement from active life some ten years ago.
Mr. Palmer was reasonably successful in business and probably leaves an estate worth $25,000. He built the house on the northwest corner of Fort street and Wayne, where Prof. Sill now lives, and resided there some years; afterwards purchased the property on Griswold street opposite the city hall, and has since made it his home. He was twice married, once before he removed to Detroit, and subsequently to a Miss Gilman, of Hartford, who long lived here with him and died a few years ago. He has living one brother, John, and two sisters, one living in Hartford, the other in Missouri. He left no children, and the persons mentioned are his only near surviving relatives.
He was, at one time, a vestryman of St. Paul's Church in this city, and was one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Anderson, who founded the Mariner's Church, as well as always one of the Trustees and Senior Warden of that corporation. He was originally a Whig, lately a Republican, but never took a very active part in political matters, and we do not know of his having ever held any political office. He was a man of quiet disposition, at least of late years, of home affections, and left many warm friends among our older citizens. For the past two or three years he has been ill during most of the time, and his life has been one of comparative inactivity, though cheered to the last by the constant care of relatives and friends.
Pioneer Collections, Vol. 4, by Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, pp 427-428
Additional source: Per Death Records, Elmwood Cemetery, Michigan Works Progess Administration, Vital Records Project, Vol. 1-2
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MEMORIAL OF MASON PALMER.
From the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, January 15, 1870.
On Thursday died one of the oldest of our citizens, one of the few who still remained of those who lived here when Detroit was hardly more than a hamlet, and who had witnessed all its development and prosperity. He was born in Connecticut in 1788, and was therefore 81 years of age at the time of his death. During his youth and early manhood he resided in the State of his birth, and made Hartford his home for a great part of the time. In 1830, or about that time, he removed to Detroit, where his surviving brother, Mr. John Palmer, had resided since 1818, and joined him in a general mercantile business which was first conducted on Jefferson avenue, near where the hat and fur store of Mr. F. Buhl now stands. They continued in trade together for some six years, when John sold out to his brother Mason, and the latter then carried on the business singly for some eight years longer. Afterwards he became the agent of the old Protection Insurance Company of Hartford, and the Connecticut Fire, and remained in this branch of business until his retirement from active life some ten years ago.
Mr. Palmer was reasonably successful in business and probably leaves an estate worth $25,000. He built the house on the northwest corner of Fort street and Wayne, where Prof. Sill now lives, and resided there some years; afterwards purchased the property on Griswold street opposite the city hall, and has since made it his home. He was twice married, once before he removed to Detroit, and subsequently to a Miss Gilman, of Hartford, who long lived here with him and died a few years ago. He has living one brother, John, and two sisters, one living in Hartford, the other in Missouri. He left no children, and the persons mentioned are his only near surviving relatives.
He was, at one time, a vestryman of St. Paul's Church in this city, and was one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Anderson, who founded the Mariner's Church, as well as always one of the Trustees and Senior Warden of that corporation. He was originally a Whig, lately a Republican, but never took a very active part in political matters, and we do not know of his having ever held any political office. He was a man of quiet disposition, at least of late years, of home affections, and left many warm friends among our older citizens. For the past two or three years he has been ill during most of the time, and his life has been one of comparative inactivity, though cheered to the last by the constant care of relatives and friends.
Pioneer Collections, Vol. 4, by Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, pp 427-428
Additional source: Per Death Records, Elmwood Cemetery, Michigan Works Progess Administration, Vital Records Project, Vol. 1-2
Husband of K. Percy Palmer and Elisabeth Palmer
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MEMORIAL OF MASON PALMER.
From the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, January 15, 1870.
On Thursday died one of the oldest of our citizens, one of the few who still remained of those who lived here when Detroit was hardly more than a hamlet, and who had witnessed all its development and prosperity. He was born in Connecticut in 1788, and was therefore 81 years of age at the time of his death. During his youth and early manhood he resided in the State of his birth, and made Hartford his home for a great part of the time. In 1830, or about that time, he removed to Detroit, where his surviving brother, Mr. John Palmer, had resided since 1818, and joined him in a general mercantile business which was first conducted on Jefferson avenue, near where the hat and fur store of Mr. F. Buhl now stands. They continued in trade together for some six years, when John sold out to his brother Mason, and the latter then carried on the business singly for some eight years longer. Afterwards he became the agent of the old Protection Insurance Company of Hartford, and the Connecticut Fire, and remained in this branch of business until his retirement from active life some ten years ago.
Mr. Palmer was reasonably successful in business and probably leaves an estate worth $25,000. He built the house on the northwest corner of Fort street and Wayne, where Prof. Sill now lives, and resided there some years; afterwards purchased the property on Griswold street opposite the city hall, and has since made it his home. He was twice married, once before he removed to Detroit, and subsequently to a Miss Gilman, of Hartford, who long lived here with him and died a few years ago. He has living one brother, John, and two sisters, one living in Hartford, the other in Missouri. He left no children, and the persons mentioned are his only near surviving relatives.
He was, at one time, a vestryman of St. Paul's Church in this city, and was one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Anderson, who founded the Mariner's Church, as well as always one of the Trustees and Senior Warden of that corporation. He was originally a Whig, lately a Republican, but never took a very active part in political matters, and we do not know of his having ever held any political office. He was a man of quiet disposition, at least of late years, of home affections, and left many warm friends among our older citizens. For the past two or three years he has been ill during most of the time, and his life has been one of comparative inactivity, though cheered to the last by the constant care of relatives and friends.
Pioneer Collections, Vol. 4, by Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, pp 427-428
Additional source: Per Death Records, Elmwood Cemetery, Michigan Works Progess Administration, Vital Records Project, Vol. 1-2
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MEMORIAL OF MASON PALMER.
From the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, January 15, 1870.
On Thursday died one of the oldest of our citizens, one of the few who still remained of those who lived here when Detroit was hardly more than a hamlet, and who had witnessed all its development and prosperity. He was born in Connecticut in 1788, and was therefore 81 years of age at the time of his death. During his youth and early manhood he resided in the State of his birth, and made Hartford his home for a great part of the time. In 1830, or about that time, he removed to Detroit, where his surviving brother, Mr. John Palmer, had resided since 1818, and joined him in a general mercantile business which was first conducted on Jefferson avenue, near where the hat and fur store of Mr. F. Buhl now stands. They continued in trade together for some six years, when John sold out to his brother Mason, and the latter then carried on the business singly for some eight years longer. Afterwards he became the agent of the old Protection Insurance Company of Hartford, and the Connecticut Fire, and remained in this branch of business until his retirement from active life some ten years ago.
Mr. Palmer was reasonably successful in business and probably leaves an estate worth $25,000. He built the house on the northwest corner of Fort street and Wayne, where Prof. Sill now lives, and resided there some years; afterwards purchased the property on Griswold street opposite the city hall, and has since made it his home. He was twice married, once before he removed to Detroit, and subsequently to a Miss Gilman, of Hartford, who long lived here with him and died a few years ago. He has living one brother, John, and two sisters, one living in Hartford, the other in Missouri. He left no children, and the persons mentioned are his only near surviving relatives.
He was, at one time, a vestryman of St. Paul's Church in this city, and was one of the executors of the will of Mrs. Anderson, who founded the Mariner's Church, as well as always one of the Trustees and Senior Warden of that corporation. He was originally a Whig, lately a Republican, but never took a very active part in political matters, and we do not know of his having ever held any political office. He was a man of quiet disposition, at least of late years, of home affections, and left many warm friends among our older citizens. For the past two or three years he has been ill during most of the time, and his life has been one of comparative inactivity, though cheered to the last by the constant care of relatives and friends.
Pioneer Collections, Vol. 4, by Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, pp 427-428
Additional source: Per Death Records, Elmwood Cemetery, Michigan Works Progess Administration, Vital Records Project, Vol. 1-2
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This face of the PALMER-HYDE family marker reads:
MASON PALMER
Born at Sharon, Conn.
May 7, 1788.
Died at Detroit, Mich.
Jan. 13, 1870.
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