Courtlandt Palmer (1800 - 1874)

Born 11 Nov 1800 in Stonington, Connecticut, United States of America

Ancestors

Husband of Eliza Rathbun (Thurston) Palmer — married 4 Nov 1824 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, United States

Husband of Mary Ann (Suydam) Palmer — married 21 May 1832 in New York, New York, United States

Died 11 May 1874 at age 73 in New York City, New York, United States of America

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Biography

Courtandt Palmer, born 11 Nov 1800 at Stonington, Connecticut, was the seventh child of Sarah Rhodes, the second wife of Amos Palmer ^[1],^[2].

He married first, in 1824, Eliza Thurston (1802 - 1828) of Hopkinton, Rhode Island.

Courtlandt Palmer married second, in 1832, Mary Ann Suydam (1812 - 1867) of New York.

According to his obituary in the caption of his online memorial site, as excerpted from the New York Post ^[3] : Mr. Palmer was born in Stonington, Conn., but came to this city when a boy, and entered the hardware establishment of an elder brother, Amos Palmer, at the corner of Pearl street and Maiden Lane. He started in business for himself when barely of age and with very little capital, he eventually succeeded in establishing the largest hardware trade of any firm between the North and the South. His firm, in which his own name never appeared, was that of Slark, Day & Whiting, having houses both in this city and New Orleans.

In the panic of 1837, Mr. Palmer failed in business, and thenceforward devoted himself to operations in real estate. His investments were sagacious and in time very extensive, so that he long since acquired an estate valued at many millions of dollars. He property includes the land on which the Manhattan Market is built, one-half of the block bounded by Union Square, Thirteenth street, Broadway and Fourth avenue, valuable Boulevard and other up-town property, and a large amount of land in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Palmer was at one time president of the Stonington Railroad, a director in the Safe Deposit Company and an officer of other corporations. About two years ago he was appointed one of the commissioners to appraise the real estate owned by the city.

Courtlandt Palmer died 11 May 1874 in Manhattan, New York. His grave is in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA ^[4].

Sources

1. ↑ Palmer Groups (1901-1905); Leavitt, E. W.; Palmer, L. M.; p. 178, no. 1403: https://archive.org/details/palmergroupsjoh00leavgoog/page/n191
2. ↑ Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, p. 521 no. 392: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n543/mode/1up
3. ↑ Evening Post, New York, New York, on Monday, May 11, 1874, Volume 73: Page 4
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #58392340

• "Rhode Island Town Marriages Index, 1639-1932", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8V5-LTG : Fri Mar 08 16:45:19 UTC 2024), Entry for Courtland Palmer and Eliza Thurston, 4 November 1824.
• "New York Marriages, 1686-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F634-TJD : 21 January 2020), Cortlandt Palmer, 1832.
• "United States Census, 1850", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCB6-443 : Sun Mar 10 05:03:36 UTC 2024), Entry for Corlland Palmer and Mary Palmer, 1850.
• "United States Census, 1860", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCWM-2WM : Sat Mar 09 02:17:02 UTC 2024), Entry for Courtland Palmer and Mary Palmer, 1860.