Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Palmer, John Aurelius December 7, 1855 - May 22, 1925
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

JOHN AURELIUS PALMER, Tax Assessor. As a business man, public official and 
fraternal worker, John A. Palmer, for more than seventeen years territorial 
deputy assessor in charge of income taxes in Honolulu, has been a resident of 
the Territory for almost half a century. He resigned as head of the income tax 
department in June, 1925.
  Born in Woodstock, Vt., on Dec. 7, 1855, to Augustus and Ann Maria (Pratt) 
Palmer, he obtained his early education in the grammar schools. He arrived in 
Hawaii in Sept., 1878, to enter the employ of A. McWayne as a druggist. Later, 
in company with Henry M. Benson, he purchased the business of A. McWayne under 
the name of Palmer & Co. In 1883 with Albert Barnes he took up a planting 
contract at Wailuku plantation. In 1890 he became accountant for the Hawaiian 
Sugar Co., at Makaweli, Kauai. He was clerk of the Fifth Circuit Court at 
Lihue, Kauai, under Judge Jacob Hardy from 1902 to 1906.
  Mr. Palmer is a Past Worthy Master, Harmony Lodge, I.O.O.F.; a Past Master, 
Lodge le Progres de l’Oceanie, F. & A.M.; Past High Priest, Honolulu Chapter 
No. 1, Royal Arch Masons; a Knight Templar, and a member of the Scottish Rite 
bodies. He married Hanna E. Smithies on Nov. 8, 1883.
  (Editor’s note: Mr. Palmer died on May 22, 1925, just as “The Story of 
Hawaii and Its Builders” was going to press.)


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