Capt. Palmer was the Gt. Gt. Grandfather of Ian Campbell
Capt. Palmer was an officer in the Mexican war and was an intimate friend of President Franklyn Pierce.
At the close of the Mexican war he retired and went to California seeking his fortune as a 49er. He pitched and occupied the 3rd tent in Marysville. Capt. Palmer had on April 21st, 1847, become a member of Rising Virtue Lodge of Masons in Bangor and as soon as the growth of Marysville warranted the movement he organized a Masonic Lodge there which was instituted under a dispensation from the Grand Lodge of California then a very insignificant body.
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His daughter was Kate Glidden Palmer who married Geo. Douglas Campbell Sr. Great Grandfather
Does anybody know anything about the Alpheus Taft Palmer Painting?