Baron de Palm - Revision history

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	* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World		* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World
	* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly," "Baron de Palm Cremated," and "De Palm's Incineration" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2], and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.		* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly," "Baron de Palm Cremated," and "De Palm's Incineration" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2], and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times'' and other newspapers. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.
	* [https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk		* [https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk
	* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.		* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.

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	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==
	===Articles===
			=== Articles ===
	* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World		* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World
	* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly," "Baron de Palm Cremated," and "De Palm's Incineration" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2], and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.		* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly," "Baron de Palm Cremated," and "De Palm's Incineration" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2], and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.
	*[https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk		* [https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk
	* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.		* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.
	*[http://www.theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl110.html# Cremation of Baron de Palm] by H. S. Olcott		* [http://pete-theboneidle.blogspot.com/2007/03/cremation-of-baron-de-palm.html# The Cremation of Baron De Palm] at The Bone Idol
	*[http://pete-theboneidle.blogspot.com/2007/03/cremation-of-baron-de-palm.html# The Cremation of Baron De Palm] at The Bone Idol
			=== Books ===
			* '''''[https://www.theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Old%20Diary%20Leaves%20-%20Olcott%2C%20H/olcott_old_diary_leaves_volume_1.pdf Old Diary Leaves, Series 1]'''''. London, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895 and several later editions. Chapters 10 and 11 focus on the Baron and his cremation.

	== Notes ==		== Notes ==

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	A symbolic memorial service was held in the Masonic Temple at the corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue. The Baron had asked that no clergyman or priest should officiate at his funeral, but that Colonel Olcott should perform the last offices in a fashion that would illustrate the Eastern notions of death and immortality. Col. Olcott wrote in his diary:		A symbolic memorial service was held in the Masonic Temple at the corner of 23rd Street and 6th Avenue. The Baron had asked that no clergyman or priest should officiate at his funeral, but that Colonel Olcott should perform the last offices in a fashion that would illustrate the Eastern notions of death and immortality. Col. Olcott wrote in his diary:

	<blockquote>The recent agitation of the subject of [[cremation]] in Great Britain and America, caused by the incineration of the body of the first Lady Dilke, the scientific experiments of Sir Henry Thompson (vide his published essay The Treatment of the Body of the Death, London, 1874), and the sensational article and pamphlets of Rev. H. R. Haweis upon the unspeakable horrors of the burial-grounds of London, led me to ask him how he would wish me to dispose of his remains. He asked for my opinion upon the relative superiority of the two modes of sepulture, concurred in my preference for cremation, expressed a horror of burial, some lady he had once known having been buried alive, and bade me do as I found most advisable.<ref>Henry Steel Olcott, ''Old Diary Leaves'' First Series (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), ~~150-151~~.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The recent agitation of the subject of [[cremation]] in Great Britain and America, caused by the incineration of the body of the first Lady Dilke, the scientific experiments of Sir Henry Thompson (vide his published essay The Treatment of the Body of the Death, London, 1874), and the sensational article and pamphlets of Rev. H. R. Haweis upon the unspeakable horrors of the burial-grounds of London, led me to ask him how he would wish me to dispose of his remains. He asked for my opinion upon the relative superiority of the two modes of sepulture, concurred in my preference for cremation, expressed a horror of burial, some lady he had once known having been buried alive, and bade me do as I found most advisable.<ref>Henry Steel Olcott, ''Old Diary Leaves'' First Series (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 158.</ref></blockquote>

	The actual cremation did not take place until six months after his death, and the body was preserved by using potter’s clay and Phenol. Finally, on [[December 6]], 1876, the body of the Baron was consigned to the flames, in what constituted the first cremation in America, in the small town of Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania.		The actual cremation did not take place until six months after his death, and the body was preserved by using potter’s clay and Phenol.

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			The body of the deceased was given in charge of Mr. Buckhorst, the Society’s undertaker, to be lodged in a receiving vault until I could arrange for its cremation. I was obliged to devise a better method of preserving it than the weak process of embalming that had been employed at the Hospital, which proved its inefficacy even within the fortnight. It gave me much anxiety, and no end of enquiry and research was involved, but I solved the difficulty at last by packing the cadaver in desiccated clay impregnated with the carbolic and other vapors of distilled coal tar. Decomposition had actually begun when the antiseptic was applied in the first week of June, but when we examined the corpse in the following December before removal for cremation, it was found completely mummified, all liquids absorbed and all decay arrested. It could have been kept thus, I am convinced for many years, perhaps for a century, and I recommend the process as superior to any other cheap method of embalming that has ever come under my notice.<ref>Henry Steel Olcott, ''Old Diary Leaves'' First Series (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1974), 158.</ref>
			</blockquote>

			Finally, on [[December 6]], 1876, the body of the Baron was consigned to the flames, in what constituted the first cremation in America, in the small town of Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

	== Additional resources ==		== Additional resources ==

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	The Baron met [[Henry Steel Olcott\|Colonel Henry Steel Olcott]] in New York in December, 1875, bringing an introductory letter from the late Col. Bundy, publisher of the [[The Religio-Philosophical Journal (periodical)\|''The Religio-Philosophical Journal'']]. He was admitted as a member of the new [[Theosophical Society]] on March 8, 1876.<ref>Membership Register. ~~Theosophical Society Adyar Archives~~.</ref> On [[March 29]], 1876, he was elected on the [[Council of the Theosophical Society]] after the resignation of [[J. H. Wiggin\|Rev. J. H. Wiggin]].		The Baron met [[Henry Steel Olcott\|Colonel Henry Steel Olcott]] in New York in December, 1875, bringing an introductory letter from the late Col. Bundy, publisher of the [[The Religio-Philosophical Journal (periodical)\|''The Religio-Philosophical Journal'']]. He was admitted as a member of the new [[Theosophical Society]] on March 8, 1876.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 44 (website file: 1A/11).</ref> On [[March 29]], 1876, he was elected on the [[Council of the Theosophical Society]] after the resignation of [[J. H. Wiggin\|Rev. J. H. Wiggin]].

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	[[File:Le Moyne Crematory.jpg\|right\|250px\|thumb\|Le Moyne Crematory]]		[[File:Le Moyne Crematory.jpg\|right\|250px\|thumb\|Le Moyne Crematory]]

	== First cremation in America ==		== First cremation in America ==

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	The actual cremation did not take place until six months after his death, and the body was preserved by using potter’s clay and Phenol. Finally, on [[December 6]], 1876, the body of the Baron was consigned to the flames, in what constituted the first cremation in America, in the small town of Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania.		The actual cremation did not take place until six months after his death, and the body was preserved by using potter’s clay and Phenol. Finally, on [[December 6]], 1876, the body of the Baron was consigned to the flames, in what constituted the first cremation in America, in the small town of Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

	== ~~Online~~ resources ==		== Additional resources ==
			===Articles===
	* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World		* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World
	* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly," "Baron de Palm Cremated," and "De Palm's Incineration" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2], and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.		* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly," "Baron de Palm Cremated," and "De Palm's Incineration" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2], and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.

	~~===Articles===~~
	*[https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk		*[https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk
	* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.		* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.

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	*[~~http~~://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/~~1684#~~ Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk		*[https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/up-in-smoke-theosophy-and-the-revival-of-cremation Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk
	* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.		* "A Theosophical Funeral - the Baron De Palm to be Buried According to Egyptian Rites" ''New York Herald (May 27, 1876), 5.
	*[http://www.theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl110.html# Cremation of Baron de Palm] by H. S. Olcott		*[http://www.theosophy.ph/onlinebooks/odl/odl110.html# Cremation of Baron de Palm] by H. S. Olcott

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	== Online resources ==		== Online resources ==
	* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World		* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World
	* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly ~~and~~ Baron de Palm Cremated" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2] and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.		* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly," "Baron de Palm Cremated," and "De Palm's Incineration" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2], and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.

	===Articles===		===Articles===

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	== Online resources ==		== Online resources ==
	* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World		* [https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/palm-joseph-henry-louis-charles-de Palm Joseph Henry Louis Charles De] at Theosophy World
			* [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-27 "The Cremation Folly and Baron de Palm Cremated" part 1], [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-28 part 2] and [https://en.teopedia.org/lib/HPB-SB-4-29 part 3] published in the ''New York Times''. Found as clippings in H. P. Blavatsky's Scrapbooks, volume 4, and transcribed in the Teopedia website.

	===Articles===		===Articles===
	*[http://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/1684# Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk		*[http://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/1684# Up in Smoke: Theosophy and the Revival of Cremation] at www.wunderkabinett.co.uk

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	[[File:De Palm Funeral Ticket.png\|right\|290px\|thumb\|Ticket for admission to funeral, from HPB Scrapbook]]		[[File:De Palm Funeral Ticket.png\|right\|290px\|thumb\|Ticket for admission to funeral, from HPB Scrapbook]]

			[[File:Le Moyne Crematory.jpg\|right\|250px\|thumb\|Le Moyne Crematory]]
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	[[File:Baron de Palm.jpg\|right\|220px\|thumb\|Baron de Palm, inscribed by H. P. Blavatsky for her sister Vera]]		[[File:Baron de Palm.jpg\|right\|220px\|thumb\|Baron de Palm, inscribed by H. P. Blavatsky for her sister Vera]]
	'''Joseph Henry Louis Charles, Baron de Palm''', Grand Cross Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Knight of various other orders. He joined the [[Theosophical Society]] in its earliest days, and became the first person to be [[Cremation\|cremated]] in the United States.		'''Joseph Henry Louis Charles, Baron de Palm''', Grand Cross Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Knight of various other orders. He joined the [[Theosophical Society]] in its earliest days, and was acquainted with [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|Madame H. P. Blavatsky]], [[William Quan Judge]], [[Henry Steel Olcott]], and other Theosophists. He became the first person to be [[Cremation\|cremated]] in the United States.

	== Personal life ==		== Personal life ==
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	Baron de Palm was born at Augsburg, [[May 10]], 1809, in an ancient baronial family of Bavaria.		Baron de Palm was born at Augsburg, [[May 10]], 1809, in an ancient baronial family of Bavaria.
	<blockquote>		<blockquote>
	His father was Colonel and Adjutant-General Baron Johan de Palm, price of the Roman empire, and his mother the Countess Freyen von Seibolsdorf of ThuneFeldt. The Baron de Palm was for a long time in the German diplomatic service, and was also chamberlain to the king of Bavaria. In 1862 he emigrated to America, and spent some time among the Indians of the northwest.<ref>De Palm, Joseph Henry Louis, ''Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889''.</ref>		His father was Colonel and Adjutant-General Baron Johan de Palm, price of the Roman empire, and his mother the Countess Freyen von Seibolsdorf of ThuneFeldt. The Baron de Palm was for a long time in the German diplomatic service, and was also chamberlain to the king of Bavaria. In 1862 he emigrated to America, and spent some time among the Indians of the northwest.<ref>"De Palm, Joseph Henry Louis," ''Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889''.</ref>
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