Strikingly beautiful, stylish, strongly opinionated, and supported by the immense wealth of newly created American fortunes, she was doted on by husband Potter, a merchant magnate who had originally moved from New York to Chicago in the 1852, when it was but a wild prairie town. Birthdate: May 07, 1909. Found inside â Page 14617 , 1854 , Lydia Palmer DeKalb of Jay , N. Y. For descendants of Augustus and Lydia , see DeKalb line . Reference : History and Genealogy of the Potter Families in America , by Charles Edmond Potter ; part viii . If your system is not PayPal “friendly”, we will accept your purchase order or send you an invoice payable by check or credit card. A new and expanded edition of Tattered and Lost: Childhood. 'The Fabulous Bertha Palmer' offers an intimate glimpse into a private, privileged world during the Gilded Age of the late 19th Century, set to the charming and eloquent music of that period. Note: Samuel is 7 years older than potter twins.
Soon, merchants from other cities came to study his progressive methods, including Macy's from New York. More information on the commercial rights for this photo. Sarah married Edgar Sheffield PENDLETON, son of Stanton Sheffield PENDLETON and Mary Abby POTTER, on 18 Oct 1887 in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Native-American era (3000B.C.-1000A.D.) On her own winter estate, 'The Oaks' in Osprey, she designed the most beautiful gardens and parks on those 350 acres, yet preserved the pioneer dwellings and prehistoric Indian remains. Found inside â Page 289Mary 38 Paine, Phebe 44 Paine, Sarah 38 Potter, Ichabod Potter, Ichabod Jr. Potter, Martha Pray, Richard Price,. Paine, Seth 58 Paine, Stephen 18 Palmer, George 13 Passmore, Alonzo 163 Passmore, Joanna. 62 Paul, Mabel M. 93 Peck, ... Wishlist. Son of Peter Palmer I and Bertha Palmer Bertha Honoré Palmer and Potter Palmer. There is also a photo of the playboy himself with wife-y number 4. The film takes the viewer from the days of her youth, through the Chicago Fire, to Europe and King Edward VII, and finally, to Sarasota, Florida.
Found inside â Page 132Socialite Hobart Chatfield-Taylor also played a leading role, and his and Bertha Palmer's memberships added to the club's ... the most prominent of several of Cobb's former clients and fellow Union Club members were Potter Palmer, ... The first, known as The Palmer, was built as a wedding gift from Potter Palmer to his bride Bertha Honorѐ. Three generations of their descendants lie beneath the floor around them. Both possessed a keen intelligence and drive, though Bertha, nicknamed “Cissie” by her besotted husband, was extroverted, and loved to socialize, while Potter preferred his business pursuits. Well, we had the last laugh, didn't we? I did cut down the amount of jewelry I wore, though I still treasured my cameo brooches, as one does. Potter Palmer, noted as a social power, was Miss Bertha Honore, of Louisville, Ky., where her family was most prominent. Bertha and Potter in their later years, with sons Honoré and Potter ‘Min’ Jr. What prompted my mother's astounding decision to venture into an unknown jungle wilderness?
This is Paradise; the bay, the sunsets, the fish leaping before one's eyes, the cacophony of tropical birds, who seem to get along just fine with their winter visitors...We are all migratory birds of a feather, are we not, searching for a brief resting place? Found inside â Page 6For instance : Frau Ida Jerka was a Mrs. Potter Palmer , 1350 Lake Shore drunkard , thief and a tramp for the last drive , pays taxes on but $ 120,611 , and 40 years of her life . Her descendants the estate of Potter Palmer , deemed one ... Now we were heading off into unknown and possibly dangerous territory. . (Note: An article on he Potter origins was published in The American Genealogist 79:29-33 in 2004 by Patricia Law Hatcher. I wonder what father would have thought of all this. Collecting vintage photographs starts out innocent enough with a few snapshots here and there, but at some point it becomes a bit more obsessive and you find yourself longing for the next image that makes you laugh or ponder the irrefutable confusion of being human. Frog Pond was a far cry from bustling downtown Chicago, but Potter correctly predicted that people would tire of the sooty railroad, the smelly stockyards, and the crowded streets. Paris could have Gustave's Eiffel Tower. Back home at her own 'Castle' mother happened to read an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune for raw land opportunities in 'sun-kissed Sarasota'. We need to update the site to: Make it more secure and usable. Tattered and Lost: Telling Stories is now available from CreateSpace and Amazon. This is not simply an entertaining inside story of a special lady who made her mark on the world, but of a woman at the center of an important part of American cultural and social history. The Palmer House is a longstanding, famous hotel in Chicago, built by this family's patriarch, who also essentially rebuilt State Street (a main street in the Loop area) along with his hotel . Thank you for all the research you've done. My grandfather was another playboy in a way, but much closer to nature that Potter was to booze. It was the first house in Chicago to have a passenger elevator. 214 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 91/4 in. When Chicago socialite Bertha Honoré Palmer arrived in Sarasota in 1910, it was a simple frontier fishing village, surrounded by vast tracts of swampy alligator and snake-infested marshland, filled with “mosquitoes of unprecedented size and viciousness.” She promptly fell in love, and purchased 140,000 acres. Potter's project was promptly dubbed 'Frog's Folly'. I expect you were not quite thrilled at first, with neither fresh water nor electricity. Born 1875 in Illinois. By 1882 the Palmer family had started building one of the first mansions on the drive in the block between Schiller, originally called Church Street, and Banks, originally named Division Street. So what if a few silver spoons went missing? Palmer II. Potter was offered the post of Secretary of Interior, but declined, preferring to run his own empire with his one true love and business partner, his wife. Undaunted, he secured a loan and rebuilt the hotel, fireproof this time, and went on to develop the barren swamp land, around Lake Michigan, nicknamed Frog Pond. For a wedding present, he gave her his newly built Palmer House Hotel, which burned to the ground a year later in the Great Chicago Fire of Oct. 8, 1871. was followed by the Homestead pioneer period (1867-1910). Found inside â Page 27Supplement to Part 9, Entitled "Nicholas Potter of Lynn, Massachusetts and Descendants", from Charles Edward Potter's Potter Genealogies, 1888 ... Their children born in Palmer , MA were Ansel , Erastus , Theophilus and Erasta . )He married Frances (MNU) c1634, probably in Sussex, England. There were many of them. McKim, Mead & White designed their tomb the style of a Greek temple, which is the largest in Graceland. Support new devices and other languages. Real estate boomed, and Potter was a busy man, but he took the time to lavish upon his lovely wife gowns from Paris (she favored Worth), important art (she favored the Impressionists), and opulent jewelry (she favored pearls and diamonds). Seriously, read the newspaper article. Found inside â Page 34What is to prevent the descendants of Cain -- and there are many -- from now bringing suits against people who speak of him as a murderer and wanting in the fraternal instinct ? Potter Palmer , hearing of the whereabouts of a guest who ... Palmer quickly rebuilt the Palmer House which reopened in 1875. Bertha walks off into the Sarasota sunset with son Potter and grandson Potter III.
Palmer family collections. But then her history continues right out of an old gangster film. The rebuilt Palmer House Hotel, 1874. Well, one has to observe the niceties of life. Rumors abounded that mother would marry a royal title; the Prince of Monaco, the King of Serbia, this earl or that duke. The crown jewel in the holdings of department store mogul turned real-estate developer Potter Palmer, it was a wedding present to his wife, Bertha. Or was Mr. Palmer disinherited when his family found out he married said person? Henry Bowman Palmer Brimigion (1926-2021) AUBURN - Henry Bowman Palmer Brimigion, 95, died Wednesday afternoon Sept. 15, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn, Maine with his family by his side. He died 1921 in Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island and was . Found inside â Page 218... Mayor Harrison , Director of Works Burnham , Lyman J. Gage , Ferd W. Peck , James W. Ellsworth and Mrs. Potter Palmer . The descendants of Columbus took seats near President Cleveland , at the right of the platform . I can still picture her trudging around the muck of Meadowsweet Pastures in her simple farm dresses and boots, tending to the cattle and pigs, gardening, taking the grandchildren on picnics. I helped organize the Chicago Woman's Business Club in 1888 to help women entering the work force, and served as vice-president of the Civic Federation to bring capital and labor together. In 1922, the Art Institute of Chicago acquired much of the collection of Bertha Palmer (1849-1918; fig. “She may well marry again.” To which Palmer replied, “If she does, he'll need the money!”. She died at her winter home in Sarasota, Florida, on May 5, 1918, with her sons Honoré and Potter Palmer at her bed side. all backed by a mind-blowing original soundtrack. The opulent Palmer Castle, itself built entirely without outside doorknobs, was no doubt due to Mrs. Palmer's fame, but one does wonder. The Woman’s Building,left, was designed by young M.I.T. 147 photographic prints : col. ; 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. When the king died in 1910, Bertha Palmer returned to America, where she would embark on her next and final great adventure: The untamed wilderness of Florida.
The first hotel was across the street, built at a cost of $200,000 by the first Potter Palmer in 1871 as a gift to his bride, Bertha Honore. Found inside â Page 154... Anna T. 87 Palmer , Abraham 11 Palmer , Annah ( Butler ) 11 Palmer , Hannah 12 Palmer , John 9 , 13 Palmer , John Jr. ... John 2 Pomeroy , John 28 Porter , Mary Edna 66 Potter , Hannah 7 Potter , Hannah ( Cooper ) 7 Potter , John 7 ... For two years she had been fighting cancer with the same determination she put into every project, traveling to New York to have a mastectomy, and promptly returning to Sarasota to direct work at her ranch. The winter months can be bone chilling. Their reflections on life with Bertha, based on letters, newspaper articles, fascinating archive footage and family photographs, beguile, amuse, and often amaze. She was 21 and he was 44. Both my father and my husband had encouraged me to learn about business. You can read a fascinating newspaper article from May 16, 1939 at. Avid gardener and potter Frances Palmer has two gorgeous cutting gardens, a ceramics studio and three kilns on premise at her Weston, CT, residence. By then he had become Chicago's biggest land owner, and in 1870, when they married, father built her the Palmer House, the grandest hotel in Chicago. He had a gift for making people adore him. American merchant and real-estate promoter Potter Palmer was responsible for the development of much of the downtown area of Chicago, Illinois, after the city's Great Fire of 1871.
When the millionaire matron of Chicago high society, Bertha Palmer, arrived in Sarasota in 1910, she encountered a mosquito-infested, boggy marshland that most assumed was uninhabitable. If she had lived 6 months longer she would have inherited something from the Palmers since her Mother in Law adored her. THE PALMER FAMILY loved Camel's, but not each other, Tattered and Lost: TRAVELING WITH CHARLIE, The more things change the more THEY REMAIN THE SAME, By the sea, by the sea, BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA. I was not a suffragist! . (laugh) Father had been gone for eight years by that time, and against the entreaties of his lawyers had left mother his entire estate. Bertha took up homes in London as well as Paris, bringing along Potter Jr. (‘Min’), who was then twenty and Honoré a year older. Nothing but swampy wilderness, just like your father found on the shores of Lake Michigan. Sure, you couldn't afford a new pair of shoes, but if you smoked Camel cigarettes you were in league with the upper classes. At the time barren and windswept, 'Frog Pond' was deemed a health risk. And you can smoke as often as you wish, for Camels never upset the nerves. Better price, more pages, larger trim size.
Found inside â Page 24Margaret K. Nickerson - Malpher , â Any Descendant of Elkanah Smith Seeking Membership in D.A.R. May Now Join ... Mrs. Jacques Barzun ; Potter Palmer ; Mrs. Joseph James " Gene â Tunney ; Paul Dudley White ; Wilbur and Orville Wright ... The current hotel is the third Palmer House. Young Pauline much preferred the tranquil beauties of Italy, though she found the Americans in Paris amusing when “they got drunk and began kissing and hugging each other.”. Potter Palmer founded a dry goods store, Potter Palmer and Company, on Lake Street . It is a name for a maker of clay or metal storage vessels [1] which was in turn derived from the Latin word potus, meaning to drink. I now feel the post is complete. A few silver spoons were reported missing, but mother didn't mind. The 'Queen of Sarasota'?
Bertha's advice to them, she took herself: “Keep up with the procession, and head it if you can.”, Mrs. Palmer and Her Ladies Lead the Parade for Women’s Rights. Were there pre-nups in 1938?My daughter (unfortunately) smokes Camels. Bertha could have been simply a social gadfly. During those heady years, Chicago would become the fastest growing city in America, and witness a wave of inventions: Creative architecture boomed with the advent of the elevator, electricity was created, the phonograph patented, and the dishwasher, invented by (surprise!) The opulent gowns, created for her by the appropriately named Worth of Paris, were made with the finest of brocades, silk satins, and hand-embroidered velvets, fitted to her tiny waist, and encrusted with rhinestones, pearls and glass beads. Born in Albany County, New York, he was the fourth son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Potter) Palmer. In San Diego, June was a secretary for Claremont College, where she also taught art therapy and learned computer word processing. Bertha hired the Parisian cast of Oscar Wilde's new play 'Salome', (recently banned in England), to perform for her guests. Found inside â Page 341Palmer , from the Latin palmifer , a palm- and be governed by laws which sball You are courteously invited to be ... Thomas W. Nlinois , are descendants of the ancient that we have ever heard in favor of uniPalmer , President of the ... My father lost everything. The immediate cause of Mr. Palmer's death was heart failure. 1 Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#55 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of Henry and Marga ret (----) Howland of . John Potter. The Potter Palmer Family Another shot from Graceland yesterday from my walk with @ukandie1 - this one to convey what a simply beautiful cemetery this is. This is volume 7 in the Tattered and Lost Vernacular Photography series. Even at the cottage, I was surrounded by favorite paintings, my Monets, Renoirs and Degas, whose favorite subjects dealt with dancers and brothels, but, my dear, so exquisitely rendered. Found inside â Page 555Georgetown , D. C. Shortly after graduating , in 1871 , she became the wife of Potter Palmer , the Chicago millionaire ... She is the only child of Henry and Mary Catherine Sharp Purdy , descended on her father's side from Capt . Palmer quickly rebuilt and opened . Sooooo, what I'm wondering is....did wifey #4 inherit her husband's share of the family wealth? Nosworthy tried to avoid him but Palmer pursued the meat cutter, cursed him and struck him with his fist. Her treasured 'Osprey Point', later called Historic Spanish Point, with its gardens and fountains where we splashed in the heat of day, its lush jungles and charming 'beach cottages', was preserved as a popular tourist attraction. Then, along came Bertha. Matilde,So thrilled you found this post and gave an interesting update about MarÃa. Both sons named one of their sons Potter, but Potter Jr. won the name for his son, and Honore`s son went by his middle . Found inside â Page 320Selected Descendants of Roger Del Feld Warren James Field ... In January 1865 Field and a partner, Levi Leiter accepted an offer to become senior partners at the dry goods establishment of Potter Palmer. The new firm became known as ... While employed, Potter took careful consideration to the ethics of business. In 1930 Chicago his job is listed as Trustee Estate. Get this from a library! Using her connections, she was able to help ease the plight of impoverished women and children, and improve the common-woman's appalling working conditions. He sold lots to friends, and hoped others would like the unobstructed view. Luckily, the widow Palmer, now one of the wealthiest women in America, could afford to dress the part. Outside in the street, crowds gathered to pay their respects. PALMER RANCH BRANCH 8301 Potter Park Dr. Sarasota, FL 34238 941-922-9622. Death: October 03, 1946 (37) Immediate Family: Son of Potter Palmer II, Jr. and Pauline Blake Kohlsaat. As a grateful survivor of breast cancer and today's state-of-the-art treatments, I found myself in admiration of the Bertha Palmer I encountered in the many books and news articles written about her. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. By 1848, Palmer opened his own dry-goods store in Lockport, New York . Charles Palmer. Potter Palmer made his first millions with a dry-goods store. and smaller. Sho married tho Chicago millionaire. As overseer of the family's vast real estate holdings and important art collection, Potter Jr. would diligently protect his mother's legacy, and wisely shepherd it from the end of the Gilded Age into the modern age of the twentieth century.
She bequeathed her Sarasota cattle ranch to brother Adrian, and stipulated to her sons that fifty-two paintings from her collection be given to the Art Institute of Chicago.
Found inside â Page 96Honore and Barbaroux were owners of one of the earliest steamboats on the Ohio . Among his descendants are Mrs. Frederick D. Grant and Mrs. Potter Palmer , Kentucky , he settled at Danville . He afterward removed 96 THE POLITICAL CLUB . Bertha, you inspire me, as I expect you will many others.
Title Bertha H. Palmer and family photo collection [graphic]. In 1871, The Great Chicago Fire destroyed most of the city, including the Palmer House Hotel, which Potter had given his wife as a wedding present. Unlike many stores of the time it focused on women and encouraged their patronage. Business and politics were part of my life, and father had always discussed his real estate development ideas with me. “There she stands,” Potter would proudly crow, “with $200,000 dollars on her!” Now wouldn't we all just love a husband like that? Murals, Needlework art, sculpture, science exhibits and patented inventions such as the Hambell cake and egg beater, and a dress stand that converted to a fire escape, were proudly on display, though Bertha had to put her foot down with the lady embalmer who wanted to display a corpse! grad Sophie Hayden, who sadly had a nervous breakdown over the “hodge-podge” of donated items inside, and never designed another building.
Potter Palmer. By the time I made my debut at twenty-one, the dashing Mr. Potter Palmer came to court me. Mother devoted 15,000 acres to ranching in the Myakka River area, and introduced important innovations to the citrus and farming industry, bringing in Midwestern technology, like vats to dip the cattle for ticks. The Epic of Black Gold for Library Distribution, "Factory People" for Library Distribution, Gabriel Garcia Marquez for Library Distribution, Bogart, Grant, Stewart for Library Distribution, In Hollywood's Backyard for Library Distribution, Harlem Black Hope for Library Distribution, Frank Sinatra , Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Factory People Book 2015 University Edition, Chekhov and Maria for Academic Distribution, Blessings...The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns of Tibet, How Andy Discovered Lou Reed The Velvets and Nico, How Andy Discovered Edie and Invented A Superstar, Streaming and Downloading via VIMEO Versions Test, The Story Oil...The Challenges Of The 21st Century, Brazil History "Dismantling of the Mountain", Brazil Ethnomusicology: "Xingu" The Flute. But after a time, I was ready to come home. Well she was the 2nd wife of Potter d'Orsay Palmer, playboy son of the wealthy Palmer family of Chicago's Palmer House Hotel. The weather was too lovely. Potter Palmer. -- Potter Palmer, for nearly half a century one of Chicago's most prominent business men, died to-day at his residence on Lake Shore Drive. June Lorraine (Potter) Palmer. She brought in Brahma bulls to breed with the scrawny creatures that roamed Florida back then, and soon had a magnificent herd. Indeed there is more to the story about wife-y No. . Pauline and Potter Jr., with Potter III and Bertha in Sarasota. During a period of eight years, Mrs. Potter Palmer as she was known, along with her father, her sons, and her brother, masterminded the transformation of a frontier fishing village into a winter . Found inside â Page 89This picture , from Mrs Potter Palmer's Collection , was given by her descendants , Mr and Mrs Gordon Palmer , Mrs B. Palmer Thorne , and Mr and Mrs Arthur M. Wood . EDGAR DEGAS ( 1834â1917 ) French The Millinery Shop , c . Wow, what a story. And thank you dear, for helping me to create the aqueduct, and my waterfall of seashells. Still, Potter junior has a point. The Fabulous Bertha Palmer. The boys, Honoré and Potter II, are young adults. CHILD WATCH Monday-Friday 8am-12pm & 4pm-7pm Saturday 8am-1pm Sunday 10am-1pm By 1634, he had married Grace Palmer. What on earth was the woman thinking? Research devoted solely to this person has either not yet taken place or it is currently in progress. Found inside â Page 38The very wealthy included William Ogden's descendants , Potter Palmer , Marshall Field , John Kinzie's descendants , Silas Cobb , Phillip Armour , William Deering , Cyrus McCormick , Samuel W. Allerton , and Gustavus Swift . Available at CreateSpace and Amazon. 2).The core of their collection was their Impressionist paintings, which included works by artists such as Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Edgar Degas. They lived in the new and opulent Palmer House hotel, a $3.5 million "wedding gift" that burned down in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, along with dozens of other buildings owned by Potter Palmer.