HENRY R. PALMER
STONINGTON: Journalist; on editorial staff of "Providence Journal."
Henry Robinson Palmer is a native of Stonington, and was born Oct. 15, 1867. He is a son of Ira Hart and Harriet Trumbull Palmer, and a direct descendant of Roger Sherman of Connecticut, who signed the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Federation, and the Constitution. He is a grandson of the Hon. John F. Trumbull, who was well known throughout the state as an anti-slavery and early republican leader. Mr. Palmer is also a nephew of Hon. Henry C. Robinson of Hartford. He is a prohibitionist in politics, and was nominated for secretary of state by that party in 1890. He received the highest vote of any candidate on the ticket. He has been the president of the Clinton B. Fisk club at Stonington since its organization in i888, and was the prohibition candidate for the legislature in Stonington the same year. He is a member of the Second Congregational church in that town, member of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of the college Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Mr. Palmer is a graduate of Brown University, receiving his diploma in 1890 a few weeks prior to his nomination for secretary of state. He was chairman, while in college, of the board of editors of The Brunonian, and editor-in-chief of The Brown Magazine, the literary monthly of the university. He was the class poet of 1890, and a speaker at commencement, and his literary qualities are of a superior order. At graduation he was offered and accepted a position on the editorial staff of The Providence Journal, the leading newspaper in Rhode Island, and will probably make journalism his life profession. But few young men in the state possess a brighter future.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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