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PALMER, Joseph, physician, born in Needham, Massachusetts, 3 October, 1796; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 3 March, 1871. After his graduation at Harvard in 1820 he studied medicine, receiving his degree in 1826, and taught in Roxbury and at the Boston Latin-school. In 1829-'30 he resided in Cuba, and after his return to Boston he became an editor there, and was connected with the "Sentinel and Gazette," the "Transcript," and the "Daily Advertiser," to which journal he contributed, from 1851 till 1862, biographical sketches of the deceased alumni of Harvard college. This necrology was published in book-form (Boston, 1864). He was also historiographer of the New England historical and genealogical society from 1856 till 1861.
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