By Order Of King Ludwig I

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"The curious visitor to Nuremberg will find the house in which Palm lived in the Wincklerstrasse near the imposing Sebalduskirche marked with a tablet inscribed as follows: 'Hier wohnte Johann Palm, welcher fiel ein Opfer Napoleonischer Tyrannei im Jahre 1806.'  The tablet was affixed in 1842 by order of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. It was Palm whom Byron had in mind when one evening in a gay company, he delivered himself of the toast: 'Here's to Napoleon he shot a bookseller.'"

Palms In Medicine

Medicine Transformed: Health, Disease and Society in Europe 1800-1930, edited by Deborah Brunton (not a free book):

"...Christoph Palm, who was a barber-surgeon in the first half of the eighteenth century in Schorndorf...passed on the trade to his son Johann Leonhard.  His grandson, Wilhelm Friedrich Palm, set up practice as a municipal surgeon in the imperial city of Ulm in 1797."  "His son, Johannes, worked as an apprentice to his father from 1808 to 1813."

A branch of the Palm family moved to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, the site of the Palm building below:

Palm's Friend Was No Friend Indeed

Source - Wikipedia

A chapter from this book explained Palm's situation in greater detail.

In the mean time [Johann Philipp] Palm had constantly been in the French prison at Braunau. 

The whole proceedings had been carried on so hastily and secretly, that the German authorities of Braunau had scarcely heard of them at the time when the French court-martial was already about to sentence the prisoner.

The French, however, wanted to maintain some semblance of impartiality; and before Palm was called before the court-martial, it was left to him either to defend himself in person against the charges, or to provide himself with counsel.

Palm, who was ignorant of the French language, had preferred the latter, and selected as his counsel a resident lawyer of Braunau, with whom he was well acquainted, and even on terms of intimacy, and whom he knew to be familiar with the French language.

But this friend declined being a "friend in need." He excused himself on the pretext of a serious indisposition which confined him to his bed, and rendered it impossible for him to make a speech.

Palm was informed of this excuse only at the moment when he entered the room in which the trial was to be held; hence he had to make up his mind to conduct his own defence, and to have his words translated by an interpreter to the members of the court.

Palm Family Lineage Update

Rather than scour each of my "Palm" posts, I decided to post part of an e-mail I received:

"On your information you write several times that the Ohio Palms are not related to the Schondorf Palms, which is not true. The Ebingen line stems from the Schondorf line… they are, of course, related."

The person who sent this is correct and I want to thank her for pointing out that my posts were (unintentionally) misleading.

Johan Phillip Palm, A Martyr For Liberty

An excerpt from the Napoleon Series website explained why it wasn't a good idea to cross Napoleon in 1806:

Johann Phillip Palm...an obscure bookseller from Nuremberg, was executed in the early afternoon of 26 August 1806.  He was shot by a French firing squad in a field outside of the town of Braunau, an Austrian town garrisoned by the French.  A single pistol shot to the head finished him off.  Palm had been arrested 12 days earlier and charged with publishing and distributing libelous pamphlets about France and Napoleon.  A military court had tried Palm on 25 August 1806 and found him guilty.

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The author of the blog Archaeolibris, who referred to Johan Palm as "a martyr for the German struggle for liberty," posted that it was a Dangerous Times For A Bookseller (and pointed towards the illustration of the execution of John Palm).

A chapter from this book explained Palm's situation in greater detail:

During the sixteen days since he had been in jail, he had only twice been taken out of it to be examined by the court-martial, which General St. Hilaire had specially convoked for his trial.

This court-martial consisted of French generals and staff-officers; it met at a time of peace in a German city, and declared its competence to try a German citizen who had committed no other crime than to circulate a pamphlet, in which the misfortunes of Germany, and the oppressions of German states by Napoleon and his armies, had been commented upon.

[Palm] felt convinced that his defence [at the court martial] had been successful, and satisfied the men who had assumed to be his judges, of his entire innocence.

He greeted them [members of the court martial] with an unclouded brow and frank and open bearing; not a tinge of fear and nervousness was to be seen in his features; he fixed his large and lustrous eyes on the lips of General St. Hilaire who presided over the court-martial and now rose from his seat. The secretary of the court immediately approached the general and handed him a paper.

The general took it, and, bending a stern glance on Palm, said: "The court-martial has agreed to-day unanimously on your sentence. I will now communicate it to you."

Palm had returned to his cell without uttering a complaint, a reproach. Nothing in his bearing betrayed his profound grief, his intense indignation. He knew that neither his complaints nor his reproaches were able to change his fate, and consequently he wanted to bear it like a man.

View a statue of Johan Phillip Palm (Jim's distant cousin) in Bert's Travels blog.

Register Of Palm Family Friends

Richard, Hazel and Eldon Palm

"Register of Friends" [from Hazel Palm's registry book]:

Mr. and Mrs. M. Cresswell, 3414 Gratiot, Flint, Mich

Mabel A. Burnham, 12635 Pinehurst

Mr. and Mrs. N. Tucker, 16525 Stahelin

Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Monahan, 11351 Cheyenne Ave, Det

Mr and Mrs. Ivan Ivanoff, 13129 Washburn, Detroit 38

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Nesbitt, 15515 Freeland

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Guest, 4419 Middleton, Orchard Lake

Ed and Barbara Mirer, 1314 Winteracre, Royal Oak

Mr. Palm Met Aaron Burr?

Aaron Burr was born in 1756 and died in 1836 [see portrait below].  A further identity of Mr. Palm was not determined [Jim's Palm ancestors came to America, and after a brief stay in New York, moved to Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio.]  "E. Boll." was Eric Bollman.

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, Volume 1, by Aaron Burr:

Hazel (Smith) Palm And Sons

Richard, Hazel and Eldon Palm

Last Meal At The New Franklin Hotel

From a history of Crawford County, Michigan:

"Last meal in New Franklin Hotel, Johannesburg, 1910.  Back of old print lists Pollie Thomas, John Norman, George Hansen, L. Rasmussen, Pearl Cleveland and Mary Bole.  John Rasmussen sold hotel to Johannesburg Manufacturing Co."

In 1900 John Rasmussen was a hotel proprietor in Crawford County, Michigan:

Census  1900
Grayling township (north side), Crawford, Michigan
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
John Rasmusson Head M 39 Denmark
Gristine Rasmusson Wife F 41 Denmark
Robert W Rasmusson Son M 12 Michigan
Frederick Rasmusson Son M 10 Michigan
Ludvig Rasmusson Son M 7 Michigan
Edith Sawter Servant F 22 Michigan
Martha Torichel Servant F 17 Germany
Katie Smith Servant F 19 Michigan
Nettie Baily Servant F 28 Michigan
Bridget Clune Servant F 40 Ireland
Dora Gleson Servant F 32 Michigan
John Benson Servant M 32 Sweden
Charles A Patullor Manager M 29 Pennsylvania
Amos Spalding Clerk M 24 Michigan
Danial Squires  Boarder M 60 Pennsylvania
Jerome Bucher Boarder M 42 Michigan
Mike Corbellot Boarder M 28 Ireland
Patrick Oconnor Boarder M 42 Michigan
John T Green Boarder M 22 Michigan
James Gleeson  Boarder M 25 Canada

Jim's grandmother, Hazel V. (Smith) Palm married, as her 2nd husband, Ludwig Rasmussen (thought to be in the photo above).

Carpenter & Walton Marriage

They were married  March 13th in 1928:



Lillian was also a Palm descendant; her mother was Fannie Lissette (Palm) Carpenter.

Gilbert Walton

Event Type: Marriage

20 Mar 1928

Event Place: Pickaway, Ohio

Age: 21

Father's Name: Ben Walton

Mother's Name: Mazie Garland

Spouse's Name: Lillian Carpenter

Spouse's Age: 19

Spouse's Father's Name: Isaac Carpenter

Spouse's Mother's Name: Fannie Palm

It appears as though Gilbert Walton died on July 4th (in 1977).  He and Lillian were divorced on January 27, 1945, according to Gilbert's April 1945 marriage application to Ruth Royal in Indiana. He divorced a second time and married again in April of 1948.

Lillian remarried a Stevens according to her brother's obituary at FindAGrave.  She died April, 1991.

An 1835 Description Of Pickaway County

R.H. Palm Building In Circleville, Ohio

Pickaway county, through which we passed, is one of the best for farming in the State.  We passed through the whole extent of the celebrated Pickaway Plains, the best wheat ground in the western country.  We passed through Jefferson, a small town in the township of Pickaway and forming the seat of justice of the county of Pickaway.

...the people seem to have all moved off to Circleville. 

Source: Ohio History, Volume 15 [Journal of Cyrus P. Bradley, 1835]

Neighbors And Guests

Jim's Dad, Richard S. Palm, and Judith Guest's mother, Marion A. Nesbit, were neighbors in 1920.

Source: HeritageQuest

Richard, Hazel and Eldon Palm

On Vermont Street in 1920, in Detroit, Michigan [extracted from the census]:

Palm, Ernest

", Hazel

", Eldon

", Richard

Burns, Belle

Cameron, Angus

", Ellen

:, Eva

Roomer

Nesbit, Rusel

", Emma

", Marion A

Septroth, ? sister-in-law

Ernest O. In 1922

Ernest O. Palm in the Detroit City Directory:

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Marriage Record Of Ernest Palm And Hazel Smith

As seen at FamilySearch:

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Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-1994

Name: Ernest Palm

Event Type: Marriage

Event Date: 03 Jul 1905

Event Place: Marion, Ohio, United States

Age: 22

Birth Year (Estimated): 1883

Birthplace: Circleville, Ohio

Father's Name: John Palm

Mother's Name: Fannie Palm

Spouse's Name: Hazel Smith

Spouse's Age: 16

Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1889

Spouse's Birthplace: Waldo, Ohio

Spouse's Father's Name: Henry Smith

Spouse's Mother's Name: Eva Whiteman

Palms And A Christmas Tree

Jim's parents in Detroit circa 1950's sitting by the Christmas tree

Richard S. Palm's Birth Announcement

Published in the Marion Weekly Star, June 22, 1912:

A son was born, Saturday evening, to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Palm, of Pearl street. (Last paragraph)

A Potpourri Of Blog Posts

A retrospective compilation from my six blogs:

Detour Through History is my first blog:


Murder of a Roark descendant, the Robert Maxwell Martin family
A Palm caricature
Kit Acklin, Texas Ranger 
Native born Great-Grandma Addie Was An Alien
Shared Ancestor with Herbert Hoover


From my "In Deeds" blog:


An Elvis Presley sighting in the Shelby Co., Tennessee, deeds.
Searching for property information about my childhood home led to the Jimmy Hoffa investigation by RFK
My ancestor, Christopher Acklin, was deposed in a case involving (explorer) Dr. Thomas Walker's land
Confederate General James Longstreet's connection to Michigan
Abraham Lincoln and the Gallatin Co., Illinois, deed


The Cameron Collections blog is more of a "one name study," including Camerons not related to me:

Alexander Cameron, step-father of a "Princess" 
My Dad, son of a Cameron


My Richmond family blog focuses on ancestors and descendants found in a lineage book by Joshua Bailey Richmond.  


Included in the Richmond & Connected Lineages blog:


Helen Pitt Douglass, wife of Frederick Douglass
My Mayflower lineage [Cynthia (Richmond) More and her father, Thomas Richmond]
Senator Charles Sumner (was beaten with a cane on the Senate floor)



Relatively Fiction ties in books with genealogical and/or historical events:


John Brown, Frederick Douglass and Detroit in this blog post
The connection between Mrs. Richmond and Edgar Allan Poe here
Mrs. Kenneth Price* mentioned in Madame Castel's Lodger
*My niece and nephew's great-grandmother


War Of 1812 Chronicles is my newest blog:


Hiram Cronk, the last survivor


As a finale, a picture of me and my Dad a few decades ago!

John Lewis Palm Obituary

DEATH OF JOHN L. PALM

Pioneer German Citizen Passes Away at Age of 84.

Came to Circleville in 1846 and House in Which He lived for over Half a Century Stands on Historic Spot--Was Recruiting Ground for Soldiers

John Lewis Palm died Wednesday afternoon, January 3, at 2 o'clock at his home on East Main street...dropsy, from which he had ...for the past four months.

Mr. Palm was born in Ebingen province of Wurtemburg, Germany, September 26, 1828.  At the age of ___he came to this country, landing in New York City.  He came to this....31, 1846, traveling from...way of the canal, the...transportation at the... .  May 25, 1850, Mr. Palm married Miss Mary Bailey, daughter of Jacob Bailey.  She died July 14, 1907.  The Palms were ....this city and ......which had been his home for over a half century.

The ground on which the house stands was once the camping ground for soldiers who enlisted in the Mexican war.  Here they were recruited and drilled before going to the front in 1846 and 1847.  The enlisting officer's tent was under a big...that stood for years back of the house.

Mr. Palm was a member of the Lutheran church in which faith he was baptized in his youth.

Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Palm, two of whom, George and John Palm, died in infancy.  The surviving children are:  Matilda, wife of John Staiger, Mary, widow of the late H. M. Gutches, Lydia, wife of A.D. Schumm, and William H. Palm, of this city; Louis L. Palm, Sallie, wife of Harry L. Jennings and H (Rosa) wife of Wilson Alkire, of Columbus.  Of his immediate family there are living one brother, John Palm, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Louise Zwicker, of this city, and Mrs. Barbara Kemler, of Columbus.

The funeral services were held at his late home Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Rev. G. F. Hughes, of the United Brethren church officiated and in the service read the hymn, "Asleep in Jesus."  The pallbearers were all grandsons, and were Ralph Schumm, Clarence, George and Louis Gutches, Elton Palm and John F. Mader.

Burial was in Forest Cemetery.

 [published January 11, 1912]

John Lewis Palm was the brother of John Gottlieb Palm who was Jim's great-grandfather.

In Memory Of Charles Palm

Charles Palm was the son of Gottlieb Palm and the half-brother of Jim's grandfather, Ernest O. Palm.  Apparently Charles and his wife, Callia (Eifert) Palm, made an impact on the town of Medford, Oregon.


The fountain donated by Callie Palm in memory of her husband, Charles:

Photo found at this site. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

 In 1935, Callie Palm replaced the original fountain with a statue depicting a “youth, strong, happy and hopeful” along with two dogs, “his loving companions.” The Palms were early Medford land owners, who developed much of downtown during the first fifty years.

An article written in 2000 elaborated on the fountain in Medford:



Charles and Callie Palm came to Medford from Ohio back in 1888, when the little railroad town counted barely 200 residents. The Palms knew a good thing when they saw it. Charles immediately went into the real estate business and prospered as the city grew.

Charles loved dogs. The couple had been planning to give the city a statue/dog watering hole, but Charles died (on June 17, 1933) before the statue could be dedicated. His obituary mentions his two cocker spaniels, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the statue features a boy and two cockers.