Palmer mss. 1835-1888

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Palmer mss. 1835-1888

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Consists of correspondence and papers of Joel Palmer, 1810-1881, superintendent of Indian Affairs in Oregon Territory, 1853-1857, and of his brother, Ephraim Palmer, captain of Company B, 1st regiment, Oregon Infantry.

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Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)

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Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881

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Joel Palmer was born October 4, 1810 in Elizabethtown, Ontario, Canada to Ephraim and Anna Palmer. When Joel was two his family fled the ravages of the War of 1812 and settled in the frontier village of Lowville in northern New York. At the age of twelve Joel was "bound out" (a form of indentured servitude) to the Haworth family in the Catskill Mountains. At age 16 he left the Catskills for Philadelphia where he married Catherine Caffee in 1830, who later died in childbirth. In 1836 Joel married...