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Henry Wilbur Palmer was born on July 10, 1839 in Clifford, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the eldest son of Gideon W. and Elizabeth (Burdick) Palmer, both of New England ancestry. His father was a teacher, farmer, and a member of the constitutional convention of 1872 - 1873.
Henry Wilbur Palmer received his education in the Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pennsylvania, the Fort Edward Collegiate Institute at Fort Edward, New York, and the law school at Poughkeepsie, New York.
Henry Wilbur Palmer was admitted to the bar at Peekskill in 1860 but shortly afterward left that place to enter the office of Garrick M. Harding at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the bar in August 1861. He served under his wife's father as a deputy paymaster in the Union army in 1862 and 1863, but he did not see actual military service. Returning to Wilkes-Barre, he entered a lucrative law practice and became interested in politics. In 1872 he stood for an uncontested seat in the constitutional convention, where he became prominent in the debates as a champion of woman's suffrage, prohibition, and the right of railroads to own and operate coal mines, although he declared himself opposed to the extension of corporate power. In 1878 in the Republican state convention, he nominated his townsman, Henry M. Hoyt, for governor. He stumped the state for Hoyt and was appointed attorney-general when Hoyt was elected. Both Hoyt and Palmer became unpopular with the party leaders before the term was over. Palmer conducted his office with independence, bringing suits for taxes against large corporations and against the common carriers for granting rebates to shippers. He antagonized the legislature by declaring unconstitutional a law granting members an increase in salary.
In 1883 he resumed the practice of law at Wilkes-Barre and became counsel for a number of large coal and railroad companies. He amassed a considerable fortune and became a capitalist in his own right; his ardor against the extension of corporate power was noticeably lessened thereafter. In 1889 he was selected by the state Prohibition convention to conduct the campaign for an amendment to the state constitution prohibiting intoxicating liquors. In 1898 he endeavored to gain the nomination for Congress in order to help save the country from "crazy socialists, populists, and silverites". Refusing to engage in the usual convention methods, he failed to get the nomination.
In 1900, under a new primary system, he was nominated and elected, and he was reelected in 1902 and in 1904. In 1909 he again entered Congress for a term. During his incumbency he spoke against trusts but did not join conspicuously in the Rooseveltian attacks. As a trial lawyer he had few superiors. A week before he died on February 15, 1913. A week before he died, he finished his autobiography, Fifty Years at the Bar and in Politics (1913), which is in many ways a candid and often blunt memoir.
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Henry Wilbur Palmer was Puritan reformer.
Palmer was a devoted follower of the Republican party.
Palmer was a president of the Boys' Industrial Association.
Palmer was of commanding presence, imperturbable, and somewhat cold. He had a gift for genuine eloquence.
On September 12, 1861 Henry Wilbur Palmer was married to Ellen M. Webster of Plattsburg, New York, who bore him eight children and who became noted for her social welfare work among the boys of the coal region. Palmer had six children, two sons and four daughters.
