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John Williamson Palmer was born on April 4, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Edward and Catherine (Croxall) Palmer, and a brother of James Croxall Palmer.
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John Williamson Palmer was born on April 4, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He was the son of Edward and Catherine (Croxall) Palmer, and a brother of James Croxall Palmer.
John Williamson Palmer was educated in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed a medical course at the University of Maryland in 1846, and sailed for California in the gold rush, reaching San Francisco, in the summer of 1849.
In San Francisco, John Williamson Palmer became the first city physician and in this position. In 1850 he drifted on to Hawaii and thence to the Far East, where he served as surgeon in the small East India steamer Phlegethon through the Second Burmese War, 1851 - 1852. Returning to America, after further travel in China and India, he definitely gave up medicine, and settled in New York as a writer, contributing to Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, and the Atlantic Monthly, and publishing his travel sketches in two entertaining volumes, The Golden Dagon; or Up and Down the Irrawaddi (1856), and The New and the Old, or, California and India in Romantic Aspects (1859). In 1856 he published a collection entitled Folk Songs. His comedy, The Queen's Heart (1858), was acted with some success by James E. Owens, and in 1859 - 1860 he published translations of Jules Michelet's comedies L'Amour and La Femme and Ernest Legouve's Histoire Morale des Femmes.
On the staff of the New York Times at the opening of the Civil War, he proposed, as a Southern sympathizer, a series of letters picturing conditions in the South. His first article, from Richmond, the Times was unwilling to publish, but he later became a correspondent from the Southern side for the New York Tribune. In the latter part of the war he entered the Confederate service and was on the staff of General J. C. Breckinridge. His poem "Stonewall Jackson's Way, " a spirited war ballad written within sound of the firing at Antietam, attained considerable popularity. About 1870 he resumed literary work in New York, serving for many years on the editorial staffs of the Century and Standard dictionaries and as a reviewer for the Literary Digest. He wrote a book on Epidemic Cholera (1866), edited The Poetry of Compliment and Courtship (1868), and prepared two books on art, Beauties and Curiosities of Engraving (2 vols. , 1878 - 1879) and A Portfolio of Autograph Etchings (1882).
His only novel, After His Kind, appeared under the pseudonym John Coventry in 1886. In later years he showed a special interest in the social life of colonial Maryland and the old South, and published articles on this theme in the Century Magazine, 1893 - 1897, and subsequently in the New York Home Journal. A slender verse collection, For Charlie's Sake, and Other Lyrics and Ballads, appeared in 1901. From 1904 until his death from the infirmities of age he lived in Baltimore.
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John Williamson Palmer was loved by a wide circle of friends for his genial charm of manner and remarkable gifts of memory, and as a last though minor figure among the writers, who voiced the Southern spirit in the Civil War.
John Williamson Palmer was married to Henrietta Lee in 1855. They had a son.