PALMER, FRANCIS LESEURE: 1863-
Francis Leseure Palmer , son of William R. and Clara Skeele Palmer, was born at Fort Wayne, Ind., on Aug. 28, 1863, and graduated from Amherst College in 1885, receiving the A.M. degree in 1902. In 1892 he graduated from Cambridge Episcopal Theological School. Seabury Divinity School awarded him a D.D. degree in 1923. On Oct. 1, 1895, he married Elizabeth E. Paine.
Ordained to the Protestant Episcopal ministry in 1893, he occupied pulpits in Gardner, Mass., Walla Walla, Wash., and Stillwater, Minn. From 1910 to 1913 he was an instructor at Seabury Divinity School, serving as professor of divinity in 1922-23. He was registrar and historiographer for the Diocese of Minnesota, and acted as canon of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour, Fairbault, Minn. From 1886 to 1890 and again from 1898 to 1900 he was an assistant editor of Webster's International Dictionary. He was also a book reviewer for church publications.
Information from Who's Who in America.
- Mahlon Norris Gilbert, Bishop Coadjutor of Minnesota.
Milwaukee, 1912.
- The Class of 1885 of Amherst College; a Retrospect After
Fifty-Five Years. n.p., 1940.
