Bradley Palmer

Bradley Webster Palmer (1866–1948) was the son of a wealthy Pennsylvania family of Republican lawyers and congressmen who sent him as a teen-ager to be educated in the best private schools of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Graduating from Harvard College in 1888 he went on for a year at Harvard Law and then returned to Pennsylvania. After a year in his father's law firm he went back to Boston in 1890 to join a newly formed (1887) Boston law firm under Moorfield Storey. He resided in Boston on Marlborough Street and worked on State Street. During this period he began to buy land on the North Shore of Massachusetts in Essex County. As he was only 25 or 26 at the time and was not in a senior position it is possible to speculate that his...