Her pedigree was rooted in one of Stonington’s founding families: The Palmers.
Her paternal great-grandfather, Amos Palmer, was a sea captain and Revolutionary War privateer, whose historic home — the Capt. Amos Palmer House (1797) — is a village landmark at 24 Main St.
Her paternal grandfather, Courtland Palmer, born in Stonington, was president of the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad, known as the Stonington, and, as such, was overpowered by Cornelius Vanderbilt, “The Commodore,” who aggressively grabbed control of the rail line in the late 1830s…