Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the late Chairman Gary would have liked best about his city's jubilee was a banquet at the Hotel Gary at which was formed the Pioneer Society of Gary, composed of men who helped build the city a quarter century ago. Presiding was William Palmer Gleason who superintended the construction of the steel plants. Near him sat H. S. Norton, now president of the Commercial Club who as agent for the Gary Land Co. did as much as anybody to develop the city. Present also was William Albert Wirt, the first and only superintendent of schools, who devised...
...Connell Gr., E. F. O'Hare '33, T. P. Palmer 1L, C. E. Pequignat Gr., W. T. Piper '34, G. E. Rath '33, H. A. Rigg '31, M. L. Robbins '32, S. B. Rounds ocC., A. B. Schneider '34, P. M. Sheldon '31, F. F. Silver '34, C. S. Spalding...
George Herbert Palmer '64, well known for his works on philosophy, and a former Harvard professor, who was Woodberry's roommate at college, attended the tea which was held yesterday afternoon at the preliminary opening of the Poetry Room, and gave a number of books as a valuable addition to the new library. The handsome mahogany tables were decorated with flowers given by Mrs. Flagler, Miss Katharine Loring, of Beverly, and by Mrs. G. A. Sawyer, widow of a former member of the Class...
Died. Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, 67, president since 1902 of Baylor University (Waco, Tex.) who sought vainly on his death bed to sign the 468 diplomas of this year's graduating class (TIME, May 18); of abdominal cancer; in Waco...
Born in Georgia, Samuel Palmer Brooks grew up on a Texas farm. His father, Samuel Erskine Brooks, a poor Baptist preacher, taught school and farmed, sometimes drove 50 miles to Dallas to get a dollar's worth of kerosene so that his family could read and study at night. Young Samuel worked on the farm, hauled wood, became a section hand on the Santa Fe Railroad, taught school. He entered Baylor in 1887, worked and studied alternately until he was graduated in 1893. One year his roommate was Pat Morris Neff who became Governor of Texas in 1921. Taking...