Bradley Palmer
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Portrait of Bradley Palmer
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| Born |
June 28, 1866 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 9, 1946 (aged 80) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Hollenback Cemetery Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
| Residence | Willow Dale, Bradley Palmer State Park, Topsfield, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University Phillips Exeter Academy |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Parent(s) |
Henry Palmer Ellen W. Palmer |
| Willowdale Estate | |
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| Location | 24 Asbury Street, Topsfield, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates | 42°39′15.3″N 70°54′24.8″W / 42.654250°N 70.906889°WCoordinates: 42°39′15.3″N 70°54′24.8″W / 42.654250°N 70.906889°W |
| Built | 1902 |
| Original use | Residential |
| Restored | 1994-present |
| Current use | Events Venue |
| Architect | Charles K. Cummings |
| Architectural style(s) |
Arts and Crafts Jacobean Revival |
| Owner | Department of Conservation and Recreation |
| Website | willowdaleestate |
 Location of Willowdale Estate in Massachusetts
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Bradley Webster Palmer (1866–1946) was a prominent U.S. attorney and businessman. He was involved with the creation and development of multiple corporations, including the United Fruit Company, Gillette Safety Razor Corp., and International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation. He was also part of the American delegation at the Paris Peace Conference following the First World War.
From 1937 to 1944, Palmer donated his extensive land holdings to the state of Massachusetts. These lands today make up the 721-acre (292 ha) Bradley Palmer State Park in Topsfield, Massachusetts.
The American Palmers in Bradley Palmer's ancestral line came from William Palmer, Nottinghamshire, who was possibly one of the original Scrooby congregation of puritan separatists. He sailed on the vessel Fortune in 1621 from Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, settling finally in Duxbury. Bradley's grandfather on his father's side, Gideon, moved to Pennsylvania in 1836.
Bradley Webster Palmer was born on June 28, 1866, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His father was Henry W. Palmer, who served as Attorney General of the State of Pennsylvania, 1879–1883, and a member of congress, 1901–1907 and 1909. His mother, Ellen W. Palmer, was an essential figure in fighting for the rights of breaker boys in Pennsylvania. She promoted child literacy and appropriate wages, equal to those of adults for the work done by the boys. Until the 1990's a statue of Ellen Palmer stood on the city commons in Wilkes-Barre.
Bradley's parents sent him to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he was admitted at the age of 16 in 1882. At Exeter, Palmer was involved in The Exonian, debate club, the Christian Fraternity, and the G. L. Soule Literary Society, as well as playing tennis, baseball, and lacrosse, and being his class secretary. From there he went immediately to Harvard University, receiving an AB in 1888. He was a treasurer of the Harvard Lampoon and a member of the Hasty Pudding Club. He played football and baseball for his class teams, and he was a member of the Institute of 1770 (later merged with the Hasty Pudding Club), Delta Kappa Epsilon, the Historical Club, the Finance Club, the St. Paul's Society, and the Varsity Club. He stayed on an extra year in Harvard University School of Law, earning the AM in 1889. He was a proctor that year. Returning to Wilkes-Barre he went to work in his father's law office there in 1889 at the age of 23 and passed the bar in Pennsylvania in 1890. He returned to Boston in 1891 and passed the bar in Massachusetts the following year.
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