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	Graceland Cemetery: Potter and Bertha Palmer
		Potter Palmer was responsible for much of the development of State Street.
		Palmer died in Florida in 1918, her body was returned to her castle beneath a blanket of orchids.
		Potter and Bertha Palmer now lie within the two large granite sarcophagi, with the inverted torches on the sides symbolic of death.
	www.graveyards.com /IL/Cook/graceland/palmer.html (320 words)

	Welcome to Palmer House
		Zilph Palmer bequeathed Palmer House to the University in 1968.
		The Andersons (Leroy Hammond ’61) purchased the house from the Potters.
		Edgar Palmer, the house was bequeathed to the University.
	www.princeton.edu /palmerhouse/history.html (468 words)

	Bertha Palmer in Florida Area History Information
		Bertha Palmer was 23 years younger than her husband, Potter, and when he died in Chicago in 1902, she was 53 years old.
		Potter left his entire $8 million estate to Bertha, to whom he gave a great deal of credit for her assistance in his business dealings.
		Palmer was one of the first ranchers in the state to dip cattle to eliminate the ticks.
	www.nokomisfl.com /palmer.htm (423 words)

	Chicago Department Stores & Retail Entrepreneurs
		Potter Palmer was born on May 20, 1826, in Albany County, New York.
		“Palmer had been so in love with his wife, Bertha, that he had given her a luxurious hotel, the Palmer House, as a wedding present.” (54) The Palmer House was constructed on the corner of State and Monroe streets.
		She met local businessman Potter Palmer, and the two were wed in 1871, assuring her a life of luxury.
	www.umich.edu /~eng217/student_projects/chicagoretail/palmer.htm (669 words)

	Palmer
		The 1870 marriage of Bertha Honore and Potter Palmer united two of the wealthiest and most influential families of 19th century Chicago.
		Bertha Honore Palmer leveraged her position as a respected leader of Chicago society to advance reform and feminist causes.
		Palmer also was an astute art collector and many of the Art Institute’s Impressionist paintings once were part of her personal collection.
	www.chicagotribute.org /Markers/Palmer.htm (175 words)

	Potter Palmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Potter Palmer (1826 - 1902) was a Chicago businessman who was responsible for much of the development of State Street.
		Palmer also instituted a "no questions asked" returns policy, which served to nurture the goodwill and patronage of Chicagoans.
		Potter built a castle for her on Lake Shore Drive in 1885, leading to the establishment of the "Gold Coast".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Potter_Palmer (251 words)

	Potter Palmer Account Ledgers, 1889-1891
		When Potter Palmer built more than 50 large houses on Chicago's Near North Side between 1889 and 1891, the area had ready access to the city's water and sewerage systems.
		Palmer hired an army of specialized workers to install plumbing and gas fittings, bells and speaking tubes, sewerage and cold-air ducts, steam warming and ventilation, furnaces and electrical connections.
		These excerpts from Palmer's account books, show the many skilled craftsmen who worked to install these systems in the houses.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/11079.html (118 words)

	Palmer House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first (known as "The Palmer") was built as a wedding present from Potter Palmer to his bride Bertha Honoré.
		Palmer immediately set to work rebuilding, and with a $1.7 million signature loan (believed to be the largest individual loan ever secured at the time) constructed one of the fanciest hotels in post-fire Chicago.
		This Palmer House should not be to be confused with the former residence of wealthy heiress and industrialist Ms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palmer_House (348 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| People & Events
		Palmer imported high-quality merchandise from Europe and the Orient, taught clerks to remember customers' names and preferences, and instructed them never to pressure visitors into buying.
		Potter Palmer had single handedly reoriented Chicago's downtown from Lake Street -- an east-west road along the stinking canal -- to the new, elegant boulevard that he virtually owned.
		Palmer claimed the new hotel was completely fireproof and backed a guarantee like he did in his old dry goods store.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_ppalmer.html (555 words)

	The Isabella Quarter - Coin Collecting
		At the same time, Bertha Honoré Palmer, the wife of Potter Palmer of the Palmer House in Chicago, was focusing her attentions on improving the education and economic status of women, and was backing the ideological principle of equal pay for equal work.
		Palmer used this opportunity to travel abroad to generate interest in the fair, and her international connections proved to be extremely successful.
		Potter lobbied and procured funding in the form of 40,000 commemorative quarters.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art30758.asp (930 words)

	Elderhostel : Program Unavailable
		Potter Palmer, then one of America's leading socialites, acquired the property in 1910.
		The widow of Chicago financier Potter Palmer, she purchased a large portion of present-day Sarasota County and began planning for real estate development, cattle ranching, and citrus groves.
		Palmer did, you'll have an opportunity to enjoy the restored formal lawns and plantings, including the Sunken Garden and Pergola, the Duchene Lawn, and the Fern and Jungle Walk with the scenic aqueduct.
	www.elderhostel.org /programs/programdetail.asp?RowId=1-1PZRAE&eCode=NN (601 words)

	POTTER GENEALOGY
		JOHN POTTER was born Oct 6, 1781 in Va. John was married possibly 2 times.
		One of the men they had taken revenge upon and did not kill said "He knew it was a Potter because he felt a ring on his hand and he recognized the ring as belonging to Potter." David and Elizabeth followed their son Josep Benjamin to Ok in the early 1900's.
		JAMES HARVEY PALMER was born June 30, 1818 in Clark Co., Ky. Oct 20, 1842 in Boone Co., Mo he married INDIA ANN CORLEW.
	www.genealogyshoppe.com /Potter/potter.html (8243 words)

	Potter Palmer - Definition, explanation
		Palmer was a partner in a dry goods business with Marshall Field and Levi Leiter.
		He built several buildings along State Street on property he owned, including the Palmer House Hotel.
		When his building were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire, Palmer borrowed two million dollars to rebuild, the largest amount loaned to an individual up to that time.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/po/potter_palmer.php (166 words)

	Potter Palmer Biography (1826–1902) Online Encyclopedia Article About Potter Palmer Biography (1826–1902) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of his early buildings were destroyed in the great fire of 1871, but he went right back to building even more roads, homes, and commercial structures.
		His Palmer House hotel soon became internationally famous.
		His wife, Bertha Honoré Palmer, continued to manage his real-estate empire, and through her many philanthropic and cultural activities she became the ‘first lady’ of Chicago.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/015/Potter-Palmer.html (229 words)

	Gold Coast, Chicago - History of the Neighborhood
		One of the early landowners in the neighborhood was Potter Palmer, who played a significant role in the development of Chicago business and the Gold Coast.
		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.
		In 1880 Archbishop Patrick Feehan was one of the early neighbors of the Palmers, living at 1555 North State Parkway.
	www.goldcoastneighbors.org /neighborhood/history.html (859 words)

	Historical biography: Bertha Honore Palmer
		Bertha Honore Palmer, wife of millionaire Potter Palmer, was a recognized social leader of fashionable society in Chicago during the 1800's.
		Bertha Potter was not only noted as a social leader of Chicago society, but was known for her philanthropy.
		Bertha Honore Palmer died in 1918, leaving her vast estate in the hands of her two sons, Honore and Potter Palmer, Jr.
	arar.essortment.com /berthahonorepa_rbyu.htm (511 words)

	Chicago Park District: Palmer Park
		Palmer Park was named for Potter Palmer (1826-1902), one of Chicago's most successful merchants.
		Palmer was a member of the South Park Commission and vice-president and director of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893.
		Palmer Park became part of the Chicago Park District in 1934, when the city's 22 independent park commissions were consolidated into a new unified system.
	www.chicagoparkdistrict.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/parks.detail/object_id/8D9D88CE-F9A2-426C-95BB-CE126141B009.cfm (277 words)

	Old Wine, New Bottle \| TIME
		Undaunted, Potter Palmer built a new hotel (the first fireproof one in the U.S.), worked under calcium lights at night to have it open before the rival Grand Pacific Hotel.
		Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife—of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him.
		Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper."
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,776551,00.html (766 words)

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		By the year of 1852 though, it was evident that the boom of Lockport was over and Potter Palmer set out for the West and Chicago.
		Due to failing health in the late 1860s Potter Palmer was encouraged to retire, and so sold out his interest in his store to his partners
		Upon his return to Chicago, and with regained health Potter Palmer decided to marry and in 1870 he married Bertha Honore.
	www.historic-impressions.com /palmer.htm (329 words)

	70th Anniversary Edition, Part 3
		Potter was born in Palmer over 60 years ago and has always lived in Washington county.
		The town of Palmer is a pleasantly situated town in the northwest portion of Sherman Township, thirteen miles south and five miles west of Washington on the Missouri Pacific railway.
		Potter served in the American Army and he is now Commander of the local American Legion Post.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/washingt/70th-3.htm (18434 words)

	ForrestPerkins to Renovate Chicago's Palmer House (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Located in the heart of the Chicago Loop, this Palmer House Hilton, the longest operating hotel in North America, is soon to undergo a renovation to produce a more contemporary hotel experience.
		While staying true to the historic legacy of the Palmer House, the contemporary renovations will allow for the redesign of hotel guest rooms, bathrooms and corridors as part of the hotel's $150-million renovation, slated for completion the fall of 2008.
		The Palmer House, built by Potter Palmer as a wedding gift for his wife, Bertha Palmer, in the late 19th century, has been a significant landmark in Chicago since its debut.
	www.contractmagazine.com /contract/industry_briefs/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003567356 (675 words)

	Response to Industrialization - Document 8 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this open letter to Bertha Honoré; Palmer, written in 1907, Mother Jones expressed her increasing skepticism of the upper class's involvement in social reform efforts.
		Palmer, wife of Chicago businessman Potter Palmer, was a queen of society actively involved in social reform.
		Palmer's efforts to resolve the social problems were in vain, because she was of the upper class and did not have first-hand knowledge of the plight of the worker class.
	libraries.cua.edu /achrcua/industrial/document8.htm (495 words)

	BC & Monets at Art Institute (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bertha Palmer -- whose husband Potter Palmer founded the Palmer House, made State Street that Great Street, and made Lake Shore Drive and the streets behind it the Gold Coast for those with plenty of money for grand homes -- had breast cancer and a mastectomy around 1910.
		She lived until 1918 and did such a great job increasing the late Potter Palmer's fortune with her cattle ranch near Sarasota, Florida, that their two sons let the Chicago Art Institute select 50 paintings from the Palmer collection.
		Bertha Honore Palmer was 23 years younger than her husband Potter, founder of The Palmer House in Chicago.
	bca.ns.ca /Support/forums/wcbc.cgi/noframes/read/2440 (455 words)

	Potter Palmer Chicago real estate developer
		How Potter Palmer turned from merchandising to real estate development, made State Street Chicago's new business center, lost dearly in the great fire of 1871 and rebuilt his fortune.
		In 1871, Potter Palmer, then forty-five, married Bertha Honoré, the daughter of another wealthy Chicago realtor, Henry Hamilton Honoré.
		The Palmer House hotel was actually thought to be his wedding present, but fate saw it otherwise.
	www.raken.com /American_Wealth/merchant_princes/Field_Palmer_Leiter_4.asp (188 words)

	Mary Potter ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Paulus Potter, Le Chasseur (the huntsman)...seventh plate in the book...[Titles in Russian and French]...
		Mark Winslow Potter (1929-1995) is perhaps best known for his brilliantly lit landscapes and scenes of rural life in New England, and in the Adirondacks, where he spent summers throughout his entire life.
		For Jakobson these were two fundamental inclinations of the creative mind; he associated similarity disorders with mastery of the paradigmatic axis of language and the literary figure of metaphor, and contiguity disorders with the sytagmatic axis...
	www.wwar.com /masters/p/potter-mary.html (1489 words)

	USATODAY.com - Hilton sells Chicago's landmark Palmer House Hotel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Palmer House was built by wealthy entrepreneur Potter Palmer, opening Sept. 26, 1871.
		Palmer built anew hotel across the street from the former building and opened it in July 1873.
		Conrad Hilton purchased the Palmer House in December 1945.
	www.usatoday.com /travel/hotels/2005-08-19-palmer-house_x.htm (289 words)

	ZENA's LAIR
		This extravagant castle of Connecticut brownstone and Amherst stone from Ohio was built for Potter Palmer, owner of Chicago's famous Palmer House Hotel.
		The architects were Henry Ives Cobb (formerly of Peabody and Stearns) and Charles S. Frost.
		Palmers's castle stood at Lake Shore Drive and Banks St. until it was torn down in 1951.
	www.angelfire.com /pa/zenashouse/zenashousegraceland2.html (458 words)

	illinoisreview: Illinois Hall of Fame: Bertha Palmer
		Bertha Honore Palmer, wife of Potter Palmer, was the leader of wealthy socialites in Chicago in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
		She married Potter Palmer in 1871 when she was 22 and he was 44.
		The Bertha Palmer Collection is one of the principal elements that makes the complete collection of the Art Institue of Chicago one of the finest such collections of art in the world.
	illinoisreview.typepad.com /illinoisreview/2006/11/illinois_hall_o_21.html (601 words)

	History of Sarasota Florida Bertha Potter Honore Palmer in Osprey
		This was against the advise of his lawyer who asked him, "What if she marries again?" Potter replied, "If she does, he will need the money!" Bertha remained single after the death of her husband and, while reading the Chicago Sunday Tribune, saw an advertisement for land in Sarasota.
		She became captivated by vision of palm trees and soft gulf breezes and became one of the first “winter visitors” of reputation.
		Palmer, a world-renowned socialite, art patron, and businesswoman, bought 80,000 acres in the Sarasota area.
	www.welcometosarasota.com /bertha.htm (1136 words)

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