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J. Culbert Palmer

Lawyer

Centurion, 1921–1928

Full Name Josiah Culbert Palmer

Born 9 December 1859 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Died 15 August 1928 in Stonington, Connecticut

Buried Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

Proposed by Edwin D. Worcester and Ellsworth Eliot Jr.

Elected 7 May 1921 at age sixty-one

Century Memorial

Josiah Culbert Palmer had been a member of the club for seven years; he had been associated in the practice of admiralty law in this city until his retirement to his Connecticut home.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1929 Century Association Yearbook