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| Elder H. D. Palmer Henry D. Palmer was a native of South Carolina, but early in life removed to Tennessee. He was a citizen of the latter State at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, and went as a volunteer to aid in the ceremony of unfurling the national flag at New Orleans.
More than fifty years of his long life were zealously devoted to the work of the Christian ministry. At Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1849, he assisted in organizing the first General Christian Missionary Society. In 1850 he assisted in organizing the first Christian Missionary Society of Illinois, and was elected the first president of that body. Many young men through his influence were induced to enter the Christian ministry. About 1850 he became acquainted with O. A. Burgess, explained. to him the gospel of Christ as taught by the promoters of the Current Reformation, received his confession, baptized him, induced him to become a Christian preacher, and subsequently to enter Bethany College. He died during the first year of the great civil war, being eighty-one years old, having long been known throughout all the Christian Churches of Illinois as "Old Father Palmer."
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