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.

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