Edward Hoyt Palmer, ^ †

1897 - 1985  (87 years)

• Name	Edward Hoyt Palmer  [1]
  Suffix	^ †
  Birth	15 Apr 1897	Essex, New Jersey, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1985	New York (Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center), New York, NY   [1]
  Burial	1985	Milford, Pike, Pennsylvania, United States of America
  Person ID	I15135	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Rev. William E Palmer,   b. 1861, Pennsylvania, United States d. 1924, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Alice Cornelia Hoyt,   b. 15 Jul 1866, Modena, Plattekill, Ulster, New York, United States d. 1936, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	1890
  Family ID	F22770	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Helen Van Houten,   b. 18 Feb 1898, Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, USA d. 27 Jul 1979, Port Jervis, Orange, New York, USA (Age 81 years)
  Children	1. William Palmer, >,   b. Abt 1924, New York d. Jul 1967 (Age 43 years)   2. Donald M. Palmer, >,   b. 25 May 1925, Watertown, N.Y d. 27 Oct 1989 (Age 64 years)   3. Edward Palmer, >   4. Judith Palmer, >   5. Janis Palmer, >
  Family ID	F6520	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Helen Van Houten Palmer,   b. 1899
  Family ID	F22769	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S24] article, New York Times, New York, NY, 5 November 1985. The Rev. E. Hoyt Palmer, executive director of the St. John's Guild Floating Hospital in New York from 1948 to 1971, died at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center last Thursday. He was 88 years old and lived in Manhattan. Early in the 1970's, the hospital ship operation, which provides diagnostic services and boating excursions for poor children and the elderly, became known as the Floating Hospital. After his retirement in 1971, Dr. Palmer raised funds for the organization and obtained $3 million for a new Floating Hospital, the fifth such vessel. Dr. Palmer, who was born in South Orange, N.J., was a Presbyterian minister. He held several pastorates on eastern Long Island, and from 1972 to 1977 was pastor of the Fort George Presbyterian Church in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. He was a graduate of Yale University and the Union Theological Seminary and earned a doctorate in education at Columbia University. He is survived by his wife, Edna Leigh Palmer; two daughters, Judith Tsukroff of Norfolk, Conn., and Janis Palmer of Chicago; three sons, Edward, of Oklahoma City, William, of Yonkers, and Donald, of Milford, Pa.; 17 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren