ARTHUR H. PALMER

Los Angeles County

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ARTHUR H. PALMER

PALMER, ARTHUR H., Dentist, Pasadena, California, was born at Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, December 12, 1858, the son of Charles R. Palmer and Elvira (Kingsley) Palmer. He married Lucy Bacon, November 29, at Pasadena.

Dr. Palmer attended the public schools of Susquehanna County and finished his high school. Meanwhile, he was kept busy on his father’s farm. He decided that dentistry would make a pleasant and profitable occupation, so he entered the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and graduated with honors in the year 1881.

He first began the practice of his profession in the county seat of his native county, where he thrived for eight years. He then decided to move to a more pleasant climate, and a larger field. Pasadena drew him and he became its citizen in the year 1888, where he has practiced nearly a quarter of a century and occupies a high position in the dental profession.

Mr. Palmer has had quite a notable career in lodge and society circles. He has won prominence in two of the greatest societies in America, the Elks and Masons, and to their membership is known from one end of the United States to the other. Many of the greatest men in the nation belong to these orders, and it takes a man of exceptional qualifications to win honors amongst them. In Pasadena particularly the memberships are of a very high grade, and yet there he has been chosen Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks. He has been district deputy of the Elks of Southern California, an office of importance. He has often been a delegate to the big national conventions of the Elks, bodies that the nation’s cities vie amongst themselves to honor, and has attended their sessions at Memphis, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, Milwaukee, Erie, Cincinnati, Reno, Denver and elsewhere. The Masons have also chosen to honor him, and he has been Master of the Lodge of Pasadena. He has taken every degree of Masonry, from the bottom to the top. His lodge affiliations have been of such importance that they have taken a large place in his life.

He has made architecture, while not a profession, a hobby. He has designed and has had built one of the most beautiful houses of the bungalow type in that land of lovely houses, Southern California, and architects themselves have come to examine it.

He has built up a comfortable fortune, and has invested it wisely, chiefly in property in his home city, and in enterprises nearby.

He is a stockholder and director in a number of substantial companies, but does not give them much attention, confining himself still to the practice of his profession.

In the field of recreation he is known as an ardent fisherman. He has sunk his line in the Pacific Ocean for fish, big and little, and has whipped his fly over most of the best trout streams of the Sierra Nevadas of California.

The growth of science and the art of dentistry has naturally been his main interest. His own office he keeps equipped with the latest instruments used in the art, and he has himself applied several of his own inventions. He follows carefully the practice of the master dentists, and he has himself made a number of valuable experiments. He has one of the best dental libraries. He has attended the sessions of the National Dental associations, and has been one of the leading workers of the local associations. He was president, for a term, of the Southern California Dental Association, in recognition of his services to the profession. He is a member of the Pasadena Dental Association.

He belongs to the Overland Club of Pasadena and the Elks and the Masons. These manage to consume all his spare time.

Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.

Source: Press Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 886, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.

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