Background
Palmer, Frederic was born on August 6, 1848 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Julius Auboyneau and Lucy Manning (Peabody) Palmer.
Palmer, Frederic was born on August 6, 1848 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Julius Auboyneau and Lucy Manning (Peabody) Palmer.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1869, Master of Arts, 1872. Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Andover Theological Seminary, 1872. Doctor of Divinity, Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, 1910.
Pastor Congressional Church, Revere, Massachusetts, 1874-1878. Deacon, 1878, priest, 1879, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant Emmanuel Church, Boston, 1878-1879.
Acting rector Lonsdale, Rhode Island, 1879-1880.
Rector Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, 1880-1888, Christ Church, Andover, Massachusetts, 1888-1913. Lecturer on homiletics, Harvard Division School, September 1913-1916.
Associate editor The Episcopal Register, and The Church, Philadelphia, 1882-1886. Associate editor The Church, Boston, 1896-1899.
Editor and secretary Harvard Theological Review, since 1913.
Author: Studies in Theologic Definition, 1895. The Drama of the Apocalypse, 1903. The Ring and the Book, 1908.
The Winning of Immortality, 1910.
With wife, Poems by Frederic and Mary Palmer, 1912. Heretics, Saints and Martyrs, 1925.
The Virgin Birth, 1924. Home: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Married Mary Towle, May 22, 1877.