Potter Palmer (May 20, 1826 – May 4, 1902) was an American businessman who was responsible for much of the development of State Street in Chicago. Born in Albany County, New York,[1] he was the fourth son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Potter) Palmer.[2]
^ ab"Death of Potter Palmer" in The New York Times, May 5, 1902, p. 9.
^"Potter Palmer." Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Biography in Context. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.
the fourth son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Potter) Palmer. PotterPalmer founded a dry goods store, PotterPalmer and Company, on Lake Street in Chicago in...
Preparatory School. She married the Chicago millionaire PotterPalmer in 1870. She was 21 and he was 44. Palmer was a Quaker merchant who had come to Chicago after...
Charles Sumner Frost of the firm Cobb and Frost and built for Bertha and PotterPalmer, a prominent local businessman responsible for much of the development...
the COVID-19 pandemic. The first was built as a wedding present from PotterPalmer to his bride Bertha Honoré. Located at State and Quincy, it opened on...
Bertha Honoré Palmer, philanthropist Francis W. Palmer, newspaper printer, U.S. Representative, Public Printer of the United States PotterPalmer, businessman...
settlers. In 1910 a wealthy Chicago socialite named Bertha Palmer, widow of PotterPalmer, purchased the Spanish Point homestead, as well as thousands...
the most prominent of these being the Chicago hotelier PotterPalmer and his wife, Bertha Palmer (1849–1918). The next opportunity for Rodin in America...
of PotterPalmer. The new firm became known as "Field, Palmer, Leiter & Co." In 1867, after Field and Leiter could afford to buy him out, Palmer withdrew...
million visitors. The Palmer House hotel burned to the ground in the fire 13 days after its grand opening. Its developer, PotterPalmer, secured a loan and...
P. Palmer & Co. In 1868, after bowing out of involvement in day-to-day operations with his new partners of Field, Palmer & Leiter, PotterPalmer convinced...
vandalized during the next six years. A granddaughter, June Lorraine PotterPalmer, who was "an acclaimed artist", purchased the property in 1989, "restored...
Library. Their most famous building was the Palmer Mansion, designed for Chicago industrialist PotterPalmer. Palmer Mansion, 1882 Chicago & North Western Railway...
Chicago real estate. Ida Marie's sister was Bertha Palmer, the wife of Chicago businessman PotterPalmer. They were married in Chicago and had two children:...
Portrait paintings Mrs. Symons, 1886 Lady with fur cape, 1887 Mrs. PotterPalmer, 1893 Portrait Frieda Schiff, 1894, wife of Felix M. Warburg Mrs. Walter...
modern retail marketing and management methods include A. T. Stewart, PotterPalmer, John Wanamaker, Montgomery Ward, Marshall Field, Richard Warren Sears...
street west of Fifth Avenue". However, after Bertha Palmer, society wife of PotterPalmer, built the Palmer Mansion that anchored the Gold Coast along Lake...
Dean Spaulding Potter (April 14, 1972 – May 16, 2015) was an American free climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, and highliner. He completed many hard first...
three Chicago, IL residents to pay taxes on an income of over $100,000 (PotterPalmer and John V. Farwell being the others). The house Schuttler built, on...
origins date back to PotterPalmer, who coerced the city to build the street adjacent to his lakefront property to enhance its value. Palmer built his "castle"...
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