GC125CB A Mitchell Palmer (Traditional Cache) in Pennsylvania, United States created by poconopuppy

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Hidden : 4/14/2007

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Geocache Description:

This should be an easy cache and dash. I hope the coordinates are OK. THis is our first hide. There is no need to go on private property.

As Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson, A Mitchell Palmer has a very interesting history and part of it includes living in this house until his death in 1936. This beautiful home was built by his In-laws in 1904-1905. Click on the provided link to learn a bit more about this fascinating man and his influence on the United States. (visit link) (visit link)

Side note: The blue house across from the Palmer House was built in 1839 as an academy. The Historic Disctict of Stroudsburg is called the Academy Hill District and is named after this home.

PALMER, Alexander Mitchell
(1872—1936)

PALMER, Alexander Mitchell, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born near White Haven, Luzerne County, Pa., May 4, 1872; attended the public schools and prepared for college at the Moravian Parochial School, Bethlehem, Pa.; was graduated from Swarthmore (Pa.) College in 1891; appointed offical stenographer of the forty-third judicial district of Pennsylvania in 1892; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1893 and practiced in Stroudsburg, Pa.; director of various banks and public-service corporations; member of the Democratic State executive committee of Pennsylvania; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1909-March 3, 1915); was not a candidate for renomination in 1914, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912 and 1916; member of the Democratic National Committee 1912-1920; appointed Alien Property Custodian October 22, 1917, by President Wilson, and served until March 4, 1919, when he resigned to become Attorney General of the United States, in which capacity he served from March 5, 1919, until March 4, 1921; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Stroudsburg, Pa.; died in Washington, D.C., May 11, 1936; interment in Laurelwood Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Pa.

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