Show BEARD CAUSE OF JEERS iw wora ore hirsute adornment to show HIS HI independence among odd Is 16 one in leominster mass atess which bears a portrait carved in marble and the tot lol owing persecuted for wearing tho the beard bearil these few words gave but it a taint faint clew to the unique personality who had this unusual memorial of himself chilled on ahls hl monument joseph rainier palmer died in leominster J 4 oct 30 1873 at the age of 84 94 nc ile ta is rot mentioned in tho the town directory I 1 A 14 1 I 1 ir I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 f I 1 V itsik I 1 I 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 e 11 i 41 11 1 0 1 11 N r 4 at A j I 1 I 1 II 11 1 I 1 V 1 Z 4 1 1 A I 1 I 1 1 1 I ill 1 A it ip n I 1 I 1 I 1 14 1 I 1 V I 1 I 1 1 al lle 15 I 1 1 7 0 I 1 jv I 1 I 1 4 1 S NIN I 1 2 i 11 Pal halmers palmers mers tombstone yet tradition has many interesting stories dories to tell of him it Is said that he gloried to la espousing the unpopular bide in any coatto lersy and posing as a martyr early in the century it was waa fashionable for men to go smooth so joseph palmer determined I 1 to lo wear a beard not of lit ito beauty but to assert his right to be ba contrary it if he wanted to be men blen and boys used to jeer at him much to his bit gratification once a crowd 0 of young fellows seized him in a hotel in fitchburg Fitch bure and started to cut off his beard he at lacked his aith a kite and wounded one of 0 them for this deed te be mas BBS summoned into court and ne h aver ver afterward felt himself a much persecuted man for consciences sake bake according to one of the older rest resl bents of leominster air palmer was wa much interested in the alie transcendent 4 at al philosophy founded by amos bron a son on alcott father of lonsac way may at AI colt call the well known writer of stories for children it Is said that mr palmer contributed toward the purchase of brook farm and ahen hen the corn com came to an end the property passed into mr palmers halmers Pal mers possession posses |