Dr. AS. Palmer was originally from Freeland, the son of William and Barbara Palmer. He graduated from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1916. However, he practised dentistry in the area before that. In 1906, he taught school in Coleman and possibly in lnvemess and Freeland. It was in Coleman in 1906 that he met his wife Alveretta Hart, the daughter of Strang and Mary Jane (Wood) Hart who built and operated what is now the Wallace store in Coleman.

In 1914 he moved to O’Leary where he set up practice over Matheson's Drug Store. At that time he built his house which is presently owned by Stanley and Adrienne (granddaughter) MacDonald. In 1918, he built an addition to his house to use as office space. He was, at this time, the only dentist in the area and worked six days a week - five in the village and Saturdays in Tyne Valley. He often did emergency work on Sundays if the need arose.

In those days his dental fees were only $0.50 for an extraction, $2.00 for a silver filling, and $20.00 for a set of dentures including necessary extractions for a proper fitting. Dr. Palmer also did all his own lab work. He was very active in the affairs of the village and par- ticipated in several projects including the building of sidewalks and the Public Hall. Dr. Palmer had a sizeable fox farm behind his house; however, Dr. Palmer’s main occupation was dentistry and he prac- tised in O’Leary until the time of his death in 1943 at the age of sixty~five.

PETER N. PATE

P.N. Pate was born in Nova Scotia on July 9, 1875. When a young man, he moved to West River, P.E.I., where he operated a general store and a shipping business between West River and Nova Scotia buying and selling produce. In 1888, he moved to O’Leary and became a driving force behind the settlement and establishment of the village. Upon arrival, he immediately began constructing build- ings to house his many businesses - a general store, cannery, machine shop and a cooper shop. Shortly after all these had been established a fire destroyed everything. At this time there was no insurance; he had to start over from scratch. He built a general store which is now Stanley MacDonald’s drug store and a building which he sold to Alfred Adams and is now Murphy’s store. The first bank in O’Leary, a branch of the Bank of New Brunswick, rented space in the front part of the building.

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