PALBN,  Gilbert  B.i

Physician  and  manufacturer;  born  in
PalenviUe,  N.  Y.,  May  3,  1882,  of  Quaker
ancestry;  educated  in  Brown  University
and  the  Albany  Medical  College,  from
which  he  was  grraduated  in  1885.  His
father,  Rufus  Palen,  was  a  tanner  and
leather  dealer,  and  the  son  in  1856  en-
gaged in  the  same  business  in  partnership
with  his  uncle,  G.  W.  Northrop,  building
an  oak  tannery  at  Canadenses,  Pa.,  and


afterward,  with  his  two  brothers,  another
one  at  Tunkhannock,  Pa.  After  some
years'  successful  effort  in  the  tanning
business  Dr.  Palen  withdrew  from  it.  In
1860  he  married  Elisabeth  Gould  of  Rox-
bury,  N.  Y.,  and  soon  after  became  active-
ly engaged  in  the  advancement  of  the
temperance  cause.  In  1876  he  took  up  the
practice  of  his  profession,  engaging  with
Dr.  Starkey  in  the  compound  oxygen
method  of  cure,  he  supplying  the  capital
and  business  ability,  and  Dr.  Starkey  the
method.  The  firm  of  Starkey  &  Palen  has
since  then  been  prominent  in  Philadelphia
and  other  cities.  Dr.  Palen's  business  en-
terprise has  led  him  into  various  indus-
trial concerns.  He  is  President  of  the  Ni-
agara Mining  and  Smelting  Company  of
Utah,  President  of  the  Fowden  Printing
Telegraph  Company,  and  Treasurer  of  an
electric  railway,  a  water,  an  electric  light,
and  a  sewer  company;  he  is  Treasurer  of
the  Ocean  City  Association  (N.  J.),  which
city  by  the  sea  he  has  done  much  to  de-
velop and  in  which  he  has  large  real  es-
tate Interests.  Address,  127  Harvey  St.,
Germantown,  Pa.
