Palmer, L. Arthur

Born (deaf?) in north Georgia; educated at the Georgia, Tennessee, and California schools for the deaf; graduated Gallaudet College in 1884. Worked in various business-related positions: fire and life insurance clerk, advertising agent for periodicals, office clerk and business manager of 3 newspapers, publisher of one newspaper, bookkeeper, accountant, secretary/treasurer of a wholesale firm, and manufacturer's general agent, mostly in Nashville, TN and St. Louis, MO.