A history of Texas and Texans . mber 20, 1836, and comeaof a Southern family and of secession sympathy, andhis father, John Palmer, who still survives at the ageof one hundred and one years, is fighting the Civilwar yet. The latter was born in the city of Eichmond,Virginia, in September, 1813, and is a college graduateand a member of the Eclectic school of medicine. Hewent to Kentucky from his native state when a boy,and after spending some years at Danville went toBowling Green, where he married Miss Hannah Curry,the daughter of a big planter of that county. Later hemoved to Tuscaloosa, Alaba
A history of Texas and Texans . mber 20, 1836, and comeaof a Southern family and of secession sympathy, andhis father, John Palmer, who still survives at the ageof one hundred and one years, is fighting the Civilwar yet. The latter was born in the city of Eichmond,Virginia, in September, 1813, and is a college graduateand a member of the Eclectic school of medicine. Hewent to Kentucky from his native state when a boy,and after spending some years at Danville went toBowling Green, where he married Miss Hannah Curry,the daughter of a big planter of that county. Later hemoved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and then to Montgom-ery, in that state, and has since made that his only child is Dr. Palmer of this review. Hal J. Palmer took up medicine first in New YorkCity, as a student under the preceptorship of Dr. JohnSneed, right across the street from the Little ChurchAround the Corner, Plymouth, and there began thepractice under his preceptor when he was a lad of butsixteen years. His first medical education was in the. TEXAS AND TEXANS 2003 Eegular school and he piaLticed Allopathy for twentyyears, then taking Homeopathy at the Hahnemann Medi-cal College, Chicago, and graduated there in 1869. Sub-sequently he attended a course of lectures in the medicaldepartment of the University of Missouri, in 1872, andannually for years took post ^;ltl? \ in differentinstitutions both of the Nortli ;iii.| tli, He beganhis career as a specialist riylit nrt. i tlu- Civil -n-ar, trav-eling extensively through tin- Simtlicin states, treatingcancers and chronic diseases of women and special studies have been chronic diseases and dis-eases of females, especially those of the genital the death of Dr. Sneed, Dr. Palmer returned tothe South and to Texas, in 1860, and located in Burlesoncounty, where he was located at the time of the out-break of the Civil war. He at once enlisted as an as-sistant physician and surgeon with Hoods Brigade,serving u
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