Ray Palmer, 14, Little Compton, R.I. Y. 1830. *1887
Son of Hon. Thomas Palmer and Susanna Palmer.
— At Miss Newman's.
Graduated 1826.
— Before entering Academy had been clerk in a large paper-hanging establishment in Boston.
— Teacher, New York;
principal of Young Ladies' Institute, New Haven, Ct., where he studied theology under Dr. N.W. Taylor.
Pastor, Bath, Me., 1835-50; Troy, N.Y., 1850-66.
Sec. Amer. Cong. Union, New York, 1866-78.
Res. from 1870, Newark, N.J ;
assoc. pastor Bellevue Avenue church, 1881-84.
Overseer Bowd. Coll. ;
Visitor, And. Theol. Sem. 1865-78. and Lecturer on Hymnology, 1878.
D.D.
Frequent contributor to quarterlies and other periodicals;
author of several devotional works, and collections of hymns and poems, one of which is sung throughout the Christian world : "My faith looks up to thee."
Presided at the Semi-centennial Celebration of the Philomathean Society, of which he was one of the founders, 1875, and participated in the Centennial Celebration, 1878. 1
1 "Is he not here whose breath of holy song - Has raised the downcast eyes of faith so long?"
Centennial Poem of Oliver Wendell Homes, P.A. 1824.
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