Bertha Palmer
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Bertha Matilde Palmer was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist. She was the wife of millionaire Potter Palmer and early member of the Chicago Woman's Club, as well as president of
Bertha Palmer at age thirteen
Portrait titled Mrs. Potter Palmer by Anders Zorn, 1893
Palmer spent vast sums on the Palmer Mansion.
Bertha and Potter Palmer's burial site located in Graceland Cemetery.
Henry Honoré
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Henry Hamilton Honoré was an American businessman.
Bertha Palmer
…of her impressionist art collection to the Art Institute of Chicago. Born as Bertha Matilde Honoré in Louisville, Kentucky, her father was businessman Henry Hamilton Honoré. Her family moved to Chicago in 1855, when Bertha was six years old. Known within the family as "Cissie", she studied in her home town and achieved a…
Henry Honoré, by Eugene Raymond Hutchinson
The Honoré family's monument at Graceland Cemetery