Elmira College 1890 With Thomas K. Beecher and Wife

Those Identified:

1. Alice Clarke
2. Unidentified
3. Unidentified
4. Joe Connor
5. Morris DeWoit
6. Unidentified
7. Ella Porter
8. Hanna Bowman
9. Anna Brown
10. Unidentified
11. Unidentified
12. Harry Van Wagner
13. Alfred Swartz
14. Unidentified
15. Unidentified
16. Anna Campbell Palmer “Mrs. George Archibald” – Anna Campbell Palmer(née, Campbell; pen names,  George Archibaldand Mrs. George Archibald Palmer; February 3, 1854 – June 18, 1928) was an American author and editor. Disliking publicity, she wrote constantly under a great number of nom de plumes, adopting a new one when she began to be identified. Sometimes she had intervals of complete silence, distrustful of her powers and displeased with her efforts.^[1] After her marriage, she was known as “Mrs. George Archibald”.^[2] In 1901, she began to use her full married name, Mrs. George Archibald Palmer, on all her books and articles in periodicals.^[3][4] She wrote a number of poems which appeared in the principal magazines of her day. She was also a successful author of fiction and biography.^[5] Palmer served as editor of Young Men’s Journal, a YMCA magazine, from 1889 until 1898, at the time being the only woman editor of a young men’s journal in the world.^[6]

Early life and education

Anna Campbell was born in Elmira, New York, February 3, 1854.^[5] Her parents were James Barbour and Sally Peck (Carpenter) Campbell.^[2] She was of Scottish and Irish ancestry.^[1] All of her several siblings died early in life.^[7] She passed her life, except four years of childhood, in Ithaca, New York, in the Chemung River valley. She was an author while still a child. When she was ten years old, she published a poem in The Ithaca Journal,^[8] which received the commendation of the editor of that newspaper.^[1]

She was educated in the public and private schools in Elmira and Ithaca,^[2] including the Lancasterian School of Ithaca and Miss Guile’s Seminary.^[9]

In 1868, at the age of fourteen, she was left an orphan.^[3] Her mother’s last words to her were: “Be a good girl.”^[1]

Career

In 1870, Palmer became a teacher at School No. Two,^[7] in the Elmira public schools. She taught successfully for a number of years. On September 28, 1880, in Elmira, she married George Archibald Palmer (d. 1912),^[9] a singer, cornet player, and choir director,^[10] active in Sunday School work.^[11]

Palmer held an editorial position on the Elmira Advertiser,^[8] and was a member of the editorial staff of the Elmira Evening Star, 1895–99.^[3] She was a correspondent to Buffalo Express, and on the staff of the Elmira Advertiser, 1901.^[3] She served as editor of Young Men’s Journal (Y. M. C. A. magazine), and Key-Note, a musical and social magazine. She did a large amount of work for newspapers of all sorts, and contributed to: Judge, The Youth’s Companion, Harper’s Bazar, Ladies’ Home Journal, Delineator, and other publications.^[2] She published “Which Was the Progressive Woman?” serial in Northern Christian Advocate.^[12] Some of her best work appeared in the Magazine of Poetry.^[8]

Her published works included The Summerville Prize (New York, 1890), a book for girls; A Little Brown Seed (New York, 1891); Lady Gay (Boston, 1891); Lady Gay and Her Sister (Chicago, 1892); A Dozen Good Times (1893); Three Times Three (in collaboration); Joel Dorman Steele (biography, 1900); and Verses from a Mother’s Corner (Elmira, N. Y.).^[8][2][9]

Palmer’s musical compositions included the text for :Life’s sunny day; a service for children’s day (music was by E. S. Lorenz and Charles H. Gabriel);^[13] Of course (1911, music composed by her daughter, Georgianna Palmer);^[14] and A Christmas berry gathering; a Christmas cantata for children (1906, libretto by Palmer, music by Ira B. Wilson).^[15]

Personal life

Mr. and Mrs. Palmer had two daughters,^[8] Georgianna (d. 1968)^[10] and Sally (d. 1926).^[9][16]

In religion, Palmer affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[1] She was allied to various clubs and philanthropies in Elmira, where she made her residence.^[2] She served on the Press and Publicity Committee of the New York State Board of Charities, and was the General Secretary of Literature of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[17]

Palmer died on June 18, 1928, after an extended illness.^[7] Her writings and correspondence are held by the Chemung County Historical Society.^[18]

17. Emory Almon Hamlin – Emory Almon Hamlin (1840-1926) – Find a Grave Memorial
18. Fred Merchant
19. Josie
20. Anna DeWoit
21. Unidentified
22. Unidentified
23. Unidentified
24. Anna Swift
25. Hattie Brown
26. Minnie Palmer
27. Flora Snell
28. Unidentified
29. Hattie Herman
30. Maggie Campbell
31. Hattie Hammond
32. Albion Frederick Merchant
33. Albion Nehemiah Merchant ALBION NEHEMIAH MERCHANT. Great Grandson of Job, Grandson of Edmond, and Son of Nehemiah, was born in Lawrence, N. Y., June 28th, 1843. He served in the 47th Regiment, New York Volunteers, in the War of the Rebellion, and is at present Editor of the ^’Democrat and Sentinel” and engaged in the printing and publishing business at Burlington, “Vt. He married Josephine H. Bowen, at Moira, N. Y., September 12th, 1865, and to them have been born two children : Albion Frederic, at Hopkinton, N. Y., January 1st, 1867, now living with his parents; and Mary Bowen, at Burlington, Vt., November 22d, 1877, who died at the same place, January 25th, 1878.

34. Albion Frederick Merchant
35. Unidentified
36. Unidentified
37. Ed Burdick
38. Henry Reynolds
39. Ada Mack
40. Will Burgess
41. Alfred Quaile
42. Anna West
43. Carrie Herman
44. Fanny Strupplen
45. Agnes Aspinwall
46. Anna Palmer
47. John Gorman
48. Sowerbey and Wife
49. Winkley
50. Unidentified
51. Unidentified
52. Julia Beecher – Beecher married Olivia Day in 1851; she died two years later. In 1857 Beecher married his second wife, Julia Jones. She was his deceased wife’s cousin, and granddaughter of Noah Webster, author of Webster’s Dictionary.
53. Thomas K. Beecher – Thomas K. Beecher – Wikipedia
54. Flower Memorial
55. Inez and Florence Hamlin – Florence Trenau (1871-1940) – Find a Grave Memorial
56. Fred Merchant
57. Unidentified
58. Professor Blakeslee
59. Julia Durbon
60. Augusta Durbon
61. Unidentified
62. Unidentified
63. Unidentified
64. Unidentified
65. Unidentified
66. Unidentified