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April 10, 1911
Edward Palmer died in Washington DC and is buried there in Rock Creek Cemetery. Palmer, who came to America from England at age nineteen, worked as a natural history specimen collector under sponsors including Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. His work in Arkansas was centered mainly in the eastern Delta lands and focused on Indian mounds. His team discovered evidence that these mounds had been built by ancestors of historical eastern U.S. tribes.