BIO: Wayland R. PALMER, Blair County, PA

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Donehoo, George P., Editor-in-Chief.  Pennsylvania, A History, 
Vol. 3, Biography.  New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 
1926, page 135.
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  WAYLAND R. PALMER, M.D. - Prominent in the medical field of Blair County is 
Dr. Wayland R. Palmer, of Hollidaysburg, the county capital.  Dr. Palmer is 
vice-chairman of the Hollidaysburg School Board; he is the physician for the 
poor of Blair County, and he is physician for the United States Pension 
Board.  Dr. Palmer is also on the staffs of the Mercy Hospital and the 
Roaring Spring Hospital.  During the World War he was active in war work, and 
was on the draft board in Hollidaysburg as examining physician.  He is a 
public-spirited, progressive citizen, and is well known in public activities.
  Dr. Wayland R. Palmer was born in Watsontown. Northumberland County, 
December 31, 1877, the son of James Reed Palmer, a native of that county, who 
was a farmer until his death, and Mary E. (Brach) Palmer, also of 
Northumberland County, also deceased.  Dr. Palmer received his early 
education in the grade and high schools of McEwensville, Northumberland 
County, and he took his medical course in the Hahnemann Medical College. 
Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1902 with the degree of Doctor 
of Medicine.  Since 1902 he has been in practice in Hollidaysburg, with 
offices at No. 417 Allegheny Street.
  Dr. Palmer is prominently affiliated with many organizations, among which 
are Portage Lodge, No. 220, Free and Accepted Masons, of which lodge he is 
Past Master; the Mount Marie [sic] Chapter. No. 166, of the Royal Arch 
Masons, of which chapter he is Past High Priest; and he is a member of the 
Knights Templar, the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, the 
Hollidaysburg Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Order of 
Maccabees, and the Blair County Medical Association, the Medical Society of 
the State of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania State Homeopathic Medical 
Society, the Shrine Club and the National Homeopathic Medical Society.  Dr. 
Palmer and his family attend the Hollidaysburg Lutheran Church.
  Dr. Palmer married, in 1910, Amy E. Eliason, a native of Fairmont, West 
Virginia, and there is one daughter, Helen Louise Palmer, of this union.