Palache (Family : Palache, Charles, 1869-1954)

Charles Palache, son of James and Helen (Whitney) Palache was born in San Francisco, California, on July 18, 1869. He received a B.S. (1891) and a Ph.D. (1894) from the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1896 as an instructor in mineralogy and was promoted to assistant professor in 1902 and to professor in 1910. He was also served as head of the mineralogy department and curator of the Mineralogy Museum at Harvard. In 1937, he was awarded the first Roebling Gold Medal. He was president of the Geological Society of America (1937), of the Mineralogy Society of America (1921), and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He married Helen Markham on August 15, 1899. Helen (Markham) Palache, daughter of Edward Willoughby and Ann Eliza (Woodruff) Markham, was born in Coldwater, Michigan, on March 28, 1869. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to teach at the Buckingham School, a girls' school organized by her sister, Jeannette (Markham) Scudder. In 1897, she met Charles Palache at one of the dances held at the school for younger members of the Harvard faculty. Charles and Helen had three daughters, Eliza Jeannette (Palache) Barker, Mary (Palache) Gregory, and Alice (Palache) Jones. Helen died on October 27, 1949; Charles on December 5, 1954.

Eliza Jeannette (Palache) Barker, known as Jeannette, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 22, 1900. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College (1922), and her M.A. from Radcliffe College (1927). She taught at several schools including the Buckingham School and the Emma Willard School. She married Russell Barker on September 7, 1936. Russell Harold Barker was born in Jefferson, Iowa, on February 8, 1901. He received a B.A. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He taught English literature at Williams College, Cornell University, and Russell Sage College, before retiring in 1966. During World War II, he worked for the Office of War Information and spent two years in Switzerland organizing an American library. Jeannette and Russell had a daughter, Susan (Barker) Gutterman, born on August 5, 1937. Russell died on January 1, 1978; Jeannette on February 22, 1998.

Mary (Palache) Gregory was born in Weston, Massachusetts, on August 19, 1902. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College (1924) and from the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Design (1927). She worked for landscape architects Rose Greely and Beatrix Farrand in New York City and for architect Fred Keck in Chicago. She also worked independently as an architect. In 1959, she went to Italy to study palette-knife watercolor painting with J.W. Cox. She continued to paint for the rest of her life. She married Charles Gregory on December 26, 1928. Charles Oscar Gregory, son of Louis L. and Grace (Spencer) Gregory, was born in Derby, Connecticut, on April 22, 1902. He received his B.A. (1924) and law degree (1926) from Yale University. He taught law at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, and the University of Virginia. He was solicitor of labor for the United States Department of Labor from 1936-1937, during which time he briefly served as Acting Secretary of Labor. During World War II, he was a public member of many War Labor Board panels, dealing with disputes between employers and unions. During the Korean War, he was a member and later chairman of the National Enforcement Commission, which enforced the national wartime wage stabilization program. In 1953, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, he spent the summer visiting law schools in Australia. He was awarded a visiting professorship by the University of London in 1967. He published Labor and Law (1946), wrote numerous articles for law journals, and co-authored Labor Law: Cases, Materials and Comments with Harold A. Katz, and Cases and Materials on Torts with Harry Kalvern, Jr. Mary and Charles had two children: David Palache Gregory, born on September 20, 1930; and Judith Palache Gregory, born on February 26, 1932. Charles died on March 24, 1987; Mary on February 14, 1996.

Alice (Palache) Jones was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 12, 1907. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College in 1928. She worked at Scudder, Stevens, & Clark (1928-1930), was executive director of the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control (1930-1933), and Fiduciary Trust Company (1933-1974), where she rose to the position of senior vice president. She was director of the Dreyfus Third Century Fund, an investment fund; a trustee of the North Salem (N.Y.) Free Library; a member and chairman of the North Salem Planning Board; and a member of the Bryn Mawr board of directors. She married Russell Kennedy Jones, an advertising executive and co-author of The Cruising Cookbook, on December 21, 1954. Russell died on October 3, 1986; Alice on June 12, 1989. They had no children.

Jeannette (Palache) Barker (1900-1998), Mary (Palache) Gregory (1902-1996), and Alice (Palache) Jones (1907-1989) were the daughters of Helen (Markham) and Charles Palache. They were raised in Cambridge, Mass., where their father was a professor of mineralogy at Harvard; all three attended Bryn Mawr College. Helen (Markham) Palache had come east from Kansas to join her sister Jeannette who was one of the founders of the Buckingham School in Cambridge; Helen married Charles Palache in 1899.

Jeannette (Palache) Barker was a teacher of English and history at Buckingham and later at the Emma Willard School. In 1936 she married Russell H. Barker; they had one daughter, Susan. Mary (Palache) Gregory received her degree in domestic architecture from the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Design (1927), worked for landscape architects Rose Greely and Beatrix Farrand, and became an accomplished watercolorist. In 1928 she married Charles O. Gregory, a professor of law and a labor arbitrator; they had two children, David and Judith. Alice (Palache) Jones was a friend and classmate of Katharine Hepburn at Bryn Mawr and was a banker in New York, working for the Fiduciary Trust Company. In 1954 she married Russell K. Jones; they had no children.