Earp Marker to Be Placed in Monmouth Park; TBS Featuring Earp on Dec
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Palmer Family Dr. Henry Ricketts Palmer. privileged to know them. Mrs. Eldridge has provided infor Contributors to this column were mation concerning the families, and Jane Zimmer Swanson (niece of John the books that have been written of Zimmer, National Bank President), them: "The National Bank of Mon Cynthia Rawson Gillen (great grand mouth - 1870-1970"; "The Tubbs daughter of Willard C. Tubbs, Na Family and a Century of Banking - tional Bank President), Mrs. Glenn '1875-1975"; "Henry Tubbs Ricketts Smith, Linda Schantz, and Robert -1901-1979"; and "Elisabeth Rick Forman. etts Palmer." TheyrememberedMrs.MyraR'ck Dr. Palmer was considered one of etts as a warm and wonderful person the giants of internal medicine and who was always willing to do things gas troenterology. for you, with fine manners and polite · His research established that acid ness. secretion, not gastric contractions, Dr. and Mrs. Palmer were remem caused the pain associated with ul bered as being interested in other cers, a finding that changed the way people, being kind, caring, good ulcers have been treated. neighbors and people who firmly Dr. Palmer represented the last of believed in conservation and the wise his generation. The century and a half use of land. odyssey of the Tubbs, Ricketts, and P.µme:r famiHes' jo~~Y through life As you. drive by the beautiful, an is now · complete~ . .,.. cestral fiome Ill Kirkwood on Cherry Their uncommon contributions to Street, pause and think of the wonder their fellow man in their various ful asset they have been to Warren endeavors will live forever in the County, and to the world of medicine, hearts and minds of those who were bcinking,:busine ss and agriculture. Earp marker to be placed in Monmouth Park; TBS featuring Earp on Dec. 15 The Illinois State Historical Soci Markers Committee by Robert and ety has approved the casting of a state Melba Matson. marker for Wyatt Earp, internationally The signs should also increase known lawman of the Old West, who tourism stopovers into the city. Ad was born in Monmouth on March 19 ditional directional signs will be 1848. It will be placed at Monmouth needed to direct tourists to the birth Park next to the large, granite monu place frc;>m the park to East Broad ment placOO there. inlho·195()! !;acrosS" ·. ~· way. .. from the ball diamond. The Midwest Living magazine The Illinois Department of Trans- requested information for the birth- portation, which jointly administers day celebration in March. the program, will put up brown "His TBS's documentary series, ''The toric Marker" signs on the state high Untold West," December 15, will way, directing tourists to the marker. include information on Wyatt and . J?ie Wya.tt Earp Birthplace Asso Josephine Earp Marcus, who became ciation applied for the $950 matching his wife. ~t marker in 1991. Only 5 match Tour visitors from Ireland were ing grants were awarded in 1991-92 given special tours of the birthplace A pre~ntation was made in Spring~ and Monmouth by Verne Barnes and field m 1992 before the Historical Jeff Rankin. 0J ,1JI ~ 0 (lp-v- . iCj q 3 Palmer death marks end of an era in Warren County's history By BOB MATSON Special to the Review Atlas Dr. Walter Lincoln Palmer, 97, pression of the Nineties. would ever lose a dollar in a Tubbs professor emeritus of medicine at the His wife was Emily Underhill, and bank." And no one ever did, because University of Chicago Medical Cen- they had three children: Rolla, Myra, she signed over her personal bonds as ter, will be buried Sunday in Center .and George (Shirley). Both sons died security for the poor loans. The Kirk GroveCemeteryinKirkwood, among at an early age. Rolla, 19, died of wood Bank had taken in three troub family members of the Tubbs, Rick- typhoid fever at the University of led banks, and was itself taken in by ens and Palmer families, who were Illinois, and Shirley, 33, president of the Monmouth Bank. early Warren County residents. the Monmouth bank for five years, Dr. Palmer was the husband of died in Bombay, India, while travel- Myra Tubbs Ricketts was a mem Elisabeth Ricketts, who was the ing around the world with his wife ber ?f Kappa Kappa Gamma, and daughter of Dr. Howard Taylor and and cousin, Arthur Tubbs, in 1921. was mstrumental in re-establishing a Myra Tubbs Ricketts, and the grand- His nephew, Willard C. Tubbs, then KKG chapter at Monmouth College daughter of Dr. Henry and Emily became president of both the Kirk- ' where the sorority was founded. ' Underhill Tubbs. wood and Monmouth banks. The-:;ew In 1945, Mrs. Ricketts furnished The story begins in upper New York Monmouth bank building was erected the medical library room at Mon in 1882, when Dr. Henry Tubbs was onthesiteoftheoldbankin 1916.His mouth Hospital in memory of her born. He taught school - "read hearse was the first to travel over the father, Dr. Henry Tubbs. medicine" as it was called - ob- first hard road he helped to obtain in tainedamedicaldiplomafromasmall this county, from South Main Street Myra Tubbs Ricketts lost her hus college in Georgia and then became to Kirkwood, over the "Blue Grass band at the age of 39, cared for her an itinerant, circuit riding doctor. He , Trail." mother until her mother was 89 cared eventually developed a large practice At the time of his death, Dr. Henry for~ communities, and the family in Cleveland, Ohio. Tubbs's daughter, Myra Tubbs Rick- business. She died in 1953. In 1858, Dr. Tubbs migrated to ens, became a director of both banks Their son, Dr. Henry Tubbs Rick western Illinois to join his family in and assumed the presidency of the etts, served forty years as a Director Kirkwood, which was incorporated Kirkwood bank for five years, until of the National Bank in Monmouth. in 1865 as Young America Ray Tubbs became president. " He was born in 1901 and died in Illness had forced him to give up Perhaps because she lived around 1979. He graduated from the Univer- c.irc~it ridin&', but he retained an ac- I here longer than others, the name of sity ofChicago and received his M.D. tive mterest rn medicine. Myra Tubbs Ricketts is best known. at Harvard. Dr. Tubbs assisted his family on the She was born in Kirkwood in 1871 farm; s?On he ~as not strong enough graduated from Northwestern Uni~ He became a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago; endocri to continue. This was during the time versity and in 1900 married a Chicago 1 his younger brother left for the serv- doctor, Dr. Howard Tubbs Ricketts, nology was his specialty, and he was the University's expert on the treat ice during the Civil War. Dr. Tubbs, who was a professor at the University 1 as h.e was still called. became a part- of Chicago. I ment of Diabetes Mellitus. ner m the hardware business of Tubbs Dr. Ricketts discovered the virus- Their daughter, Elisabeth Ricketts • and Sofield, for nine years, that ca- l~e bacteria that cause Rocky Moun- Palmer, was born in Chicago in 1903 ter~ to the special needs of farmers. tam Spotted Fever and that causes 3:fld was educated in Kirkwood, Chi: WitJl the profits he made from this T.yphus - ~e Rick~ttsia, named for cago, and graduated from Vassar • ~usmess,he~stablishedaprivatebank hun. Dr. ~1cketts.di~ of Typhus in College I m 1874, which became the First Na- 1910, while studying rn Mexico City. She also worked for a year or more tional Bank of Kirkwood in 1875 They had two children, Elisabeth in the National Bank of Monmouth 1 In 1884, Dr. Tubbs purchased o~er ' Ricketts (Mrs. Walter L. Palmer) and i and was married in 1926 to Walter L one-fourth of the capital stock in the Dr. Henry Tubbs Ricketts. 1 Palmer in the family home in Kirk~ Monmouth National Bank. He was WhileservingastheKirkwoodbank wood, where her parents were mar elected president and served in that president, Mrs. Ricketts had to attend ried. Mrs. Palmer died in 1981. office until his death in 1899. In 1899, farm sal~ in the 1930's, during the thebankwasachart.ermemberofthe Dep ~ess1on, sometimes with her When I was chainnan of the Bicen Warren County Library. cousm, Glenn Smith, to bid for the tennial, Mrs. Palmer donated $1 ()()() Until Dr. Tubbs married at age 46, banks to recover the face value of the fortheMonmouthBicentennialF~ he had employed many of his brother mortgage loans. Art Tubbs was presi- of July Fireworks Celebration at the James' children in the banks he ad- dent of the Monmouth Bank and time ofaweddin ginthefamily, which ministered. He had carried the Kirk- refused to accept some of the Krrk- she also wanted to celebrate. wood • Al exis,· an d Monmouth banks wood "paper.". They had four children· Dr Robert safely through the long, severe de- , Mrs. Ricketts stated that "no one Howard Palmer, Dr. ~d· Walter ()pf.\. i\ ! nF (' n~ ! ~- ~T I ~ (\ t. \F 0 ~ Mrs. Elisabeth Eldridge, and . , , : L..L3 , ·,. i ;F ·1-v L~Li" l-,-\Lv "v~ . v ~ -' .J,J.._,j _ I.. Palmer Family OCCG~ qEfERENC ONP '' Solomon Long left many descendants in Owen County genealogy and photographs from Becky Keesling, 13744 Langley Dr., Carmel, IN 460 12; [email protected] Making their way from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania through Carroll County, Ohio, the Longs who came to settle in Owen County married into the Fulk, Fiscus, Amey, Abrell, Norris, and other well known fam ilies of Jefferson Township.