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History of Ohio
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume III, page 336-337

	W. EDWIN PALMER.  As secretary and assistant treasurer of the Seiberling 
Rubber Company, W. Edwin Palmer is close to the seat of power and 
responsibility in the "Rubber City" of Akron, and has rounded a full 
quarter of a century of experience in the rubber industry. His hobby has 
been Masonic ritual and administration, and the various bodies in Ohio have 
conferred upon him some of the highest honors of the craft.
	William Edwin Palmer was born at Hudson, Ohio, August 31, 1874, son of 
James and Malissa (Wireman) Palmer. His father, a native of Connecticut, 
was a railroad man of long and competent experience. He located in Summit 
County, Ohio, in 1860, and was in the service of the Cleveland, Akron & 
Columbus until he retired in 1876. He died at Hudson in November, 1896. His 
wife was a native of Wooster, Ohio, and died in February, 1923.
	In his home town of Hudson, W. Edwin Palmer attended high school and the 
Western Reserve Academy, and soon afterward began his business training in 
Akron. After several years with the Enterprise Manufacturing Company he 
became bookkeeper, in January, 1889, for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber 
Company. His service became increasingly valuable to the company during the 
critical years of its development, and in 1915 the duties of assistant 
secretary were added, and a short time afterward he was made treasurer, and 
about 1919 was also made secretary of the company. In 1921 he took his 
present responsibilities as secretary and assistant treasurer of the 
Seiberling Rubber Company. He is also a director of the Ohio State Bank & 
Trust Company and the First Trust & Savings Bank.
	Some of his Masonic affiliations and honors are represented as follows: 
Past master of Adoniram Lodge No. 517, Free and Accepted Masons; past high 
priest Washington Chapter No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; member Akron Council 
No. 80, Royal and Select Masters; past commander Akron Commandery No. 25, 
Knights Templar; Ysef Khan Grotto No. 41; Lake Erie Consistory of the 
Scottish Rite; a charter member and treasurer of Tadmor Temple of the 
Mystic Shrine; and Cleveland Court No. 14, Royal Order of Jesters, at 
Cleveland; St. Benedict's Conclave, Masonic Order Red Cross of Constantine. 
At Boston, September 17, 1918, he was crowned an honorary member 
(thirty-third degree) in Scottish Rite Masonary. He has been grand warden, 
grand standard bearer, grand sword bearer, grand junior warden, grand 
senior warden, and in 1924 was grand captain general Grand Commandery 
Knights Templar of Ohio, and has represented the Minnesota Grand Commandery 
and the Ohio Grand Commandery. He is president of the Akron Shrine Club, 
vice president of the Akron Masonic Temple Company, secretary of the 
Scottish Rite Society of Summit County, and for several years has been a 
trustee of the Ohio Masonic Home of Springfield, Ohio.
	Mr. Palmer is a member of the Akron City Club, Portage Country Club and 
the First Congregational Church of Hudson, Ohio. he married Miss Mary 
Gertrude Ramp, daughter of John Ramp, of Cuyahoga Falls. Their two children 
are Elmer J. and J. Kathryn, the daughter a graduate of Penn Hall and now 
attending Akron University. Elmer, during the World war, enlisted as a 
radio operator in the navy, was commissioned ensign, being in the service 
eighteen months, and was executive officer on sub-chasers out of Norfolk. 
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (1919), where he was a Sigma Nu, and 
is with the Aetna Life Insurance Company as field representative, group 
division, and, like his father, is a Royal Arch, Knights Templar and a 
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason. He married Ruth Maginnis of Akron.

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