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About Henry Austin Palmer
Henry Austin Palmer
Banker, Founder of Claremont, California; principal of the Pacific Land Improvement Company and a founder & the first president of the Pomona College Board of Trustees
Palmer was born on December 23, 1842, a native of Stonington, New London County, Connecticut; worked there as an express agent, then a clerk in the U.S. custom house; came to California in 1862 and was employed in a banking and assay office in Folsom until 1864, and then spent a year in assaying in Michigan Bluff; worked as cashier in U.S. Mint at San Francisco, 1865-67; cashier at banking house of Banks & Company until 1869 when he organized and was appointed cashier of the Union Savings Bank of Oakland; became the first cashier of the Union National bank, established in 1877, serving as president from 1882-86, while also serving as vice president and treasurer of the Union Savings Bank; in 1867, he married Jane O. Day; their children were Theodore S., Elizabeth Day, and Harold King Palmer; in 1882, along with C.T. Mills and M.L. Wicks, Palmer incorporated the Pomona Land and Water Company; in 1884 served as vice president, and then president until 1887; also became the owner and incorporator of the Pomona Bank in 1883.
- Palmer Family Papers
- CalPolyPomona Pomona Valley Historical Special Collection
- Palmer Canyon Deeds Collection
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 523
Henry Austin Palmer's Timeline
1842 |
December 23, 1842
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Mystic Bridge, New London County, Connecticut, United States
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1868 |
January 26, 1868
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Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
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1872 |
November 30, 1872
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Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
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1878 |
January 20, 1878
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Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
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1917 |
February 4, 1917
Age 74
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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Mountain View Cemetery, 5000 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, Alameda County, California, 94611, United States
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