Bertha Palmer (May 22, 1849 – May 5, 1918) was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. Her next-door neighbor was steel magnate Clayton Mark, the builder of the planned worker community named Marktown in Northwest Indiana.
Read more about Bertha Palmer: Biography, Marriage, Chicago World's Fair & The Women's Building, Art Collecting, Luxurious Mansions and Lavish Spending, Florida Real Estate Pioneer, Death
Famous quotes containing the words bertha and/or palmer:
“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)
“Consider the value to the race of one-half of its members being enabled to throw aside the intolerable bondage of ignorance that has always weighed them down!”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)