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EBER LENON PALMER is superintendent of city schools at
Vinton, and his first teaching experience was in that community. It is
a rather unusual circumstance that a father and son occupy prominent
educational positions in one town, his father Francis Eber Palmer,
being superintendent of the State School for the Blind at Vinton.
Eber Lenon Palmer was born at Greenfield, Iowa, September 16, 1897, son
of Francis E. and Cora May (Lenon) Palmer. Appropriate mention of his
father's notable career as an educator is made on following pages of
this publication.
Eber Lenon Palmer received his early school advantages in the
several localities where his father was superintendent of schools,
including Villisca, Greenfield and LeMars. He is a graduate of the
LeMars High School. In high school he showed special proficiency in
dramatic and debating work. In 1914 he entered Grinnell College, from
which he received his A. B. degree in 1918.
In May, 1917, he and seven other Grinnell students volunteered for
service in the World war, and singularly all of them were assigned
duties that kept them together. They were connected with the
Twenty-sixth Base Hospital, received training at Fort McPherson,
Georgia, and on June, 1918, went overseas, being stationed at Allerey,
near Dijon, France. Mr. Palmer returned to the United States in
February, 1919. Since the war he has been a member of the
American Legion.
After his release from military duty he resumed work in Grinnell
College for ten weeks. At Vinton he taught mathematics in the high
school for two years, and for two years was principal of the high
school there. Then came an interruption to his work as an educator
when he spent a year of residence at the University of Iowa. After
taking his Master of Arts degree he was for two years superintendent of
schools at Radcliffe, Iowa, and then returned to Vinton as
superintendent of the public schools.
He is a member of the Iowa Teachers Association, National Education
Association, is a Republican, a member of the Masonic fraternity and the
Phi Delta Kappa, and is a Methodist. He married Miss Eunice Olsen,
daughter of L. H. Olsen, of Minneapolis. Mrs. Palmer was educated at
the University of Minnesota, and taught the craft arts, including
basket weaving, at the School for the Blind at Vinton. |
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~ source: A Narrative History of The People
of Iowa, Edgar Rubey
Harlan, LL. B., A. M.,
Chicago and New York, 1931
~ transcribed and contributed by: Debbie Clough
Gerischer, Iowa History
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