Timeline: 1895-1952

1896.  Reached Cambridge a few days before Christmas,

1895. Went to live in a brick cell on the fourth floor of the University Museum, rent free, to guard the gems. Winter, Spring and Summer spent in rearranging the Museum mineral collection. To Digby, Nova Scotia with Jaggar in August Named Instructor in mineralogy in the Fall and had charge of the elementary laboratory work in mineralogy, having Ransome as assistant from Nov. 1. Received Goldschmidt 2-circle goniometer. Fire in Museum room May 30th. With Wolff to Bement's and Franklin in July.

1897   In late May went to Heidelberg to work again with Goldschmidt on the Calcite crystals I had been studying in the winter.  In July went to Russia for 4th International Geological Congress in St Petersburg. By rail to Warsaw and Moscow; excursion to Ural Mts. Some home letters of this trip published in Univ. of Cal. Magazine. Eakle became Assistant and took Museum room. I lived in Perkins Hall as Proctor. Began to give lectures in Crystallography.

1898.  In the winter studied calcite and wrote a paper on it in Mich. Geol. Report. With Eakle, made the large crystal diagrams for lectures. Asked to conduct a summer field course in Geology in eastern Mass. for Harvard; but as no students enrolled I went to California for the summer via Northern Pacific Route. Pleasant horseback camping trip to Lake Tahoe with Joe Kline.

1899.  Became engaged to Helen Markham and made plans for a June wedding Invitation to join Harriman Alaska Expedition from May to August caused postponement Trip a great success; diary letters sent to Helen preserved. Returned to Cambridge Aug. 13th,married Aug. 15th; honeymoon at Franconia in White Mts. and later to the Jaggar home in Digby, N.S. Settled in a tiny house, The Studio, No. 4, Buckingham Place, my sister Mary in Cambridge that winter staying with the Parkers and studying the teaching of physical training at the Sargent School. Eakle still Assistant but also substituting for Wolff who was in Europe on sabbatical leave. I took all lectures in Mineralogy from then on.

1900.  Spent the early summer with Helen at a farmhouse in East Wolfboro N.H. Mary Palache was in White Mts. we all returned to Cambridge in mid-August and Jeannette was born in the Cambridge house on Aug. 22. Eakle went to Univ. of Cal. and his place here was taken by C. E. Lord. Visit in winter from Prof. Brogger of Oslo. Spring trips to Westerley, R.I. and Haddam Neck, Conn. Mary P. spent that winter in our house.

1901.  Took Helen, Mary P. and the baby to Little Cranberry Island near Mt. Desert Island, Me., where they spent the summer. At end of June I went with T. A. Jaggar to Prescott, Ariz. and we spent the summer mapping the geology of U.S.G.S. Folio 126, the Bradshaw Mts. Ended field work at Phoenix and returned to Cambridge by way of California in time to go to Maine and bring the family home. Hoyt Gale was assistant that year. Made spring trip to Conn. Valley localities.

1902.  Took Mary Palache for visit to Washington in June before she returned to California. We took a cottage in Weston, Mass. and Helen's great Aunt Alice Watson was with her. Mary was born there on August 19. I commuted to Cambridge, working on Bradshaw Mts. Folio. Spring trip to Chester and Westfield, Mass. Fall trip with Wolff on bicycles to Deerfield Valley, Vermont. My thesis published in Berkeley and papers on apatite, epidote, and babingtonite. Made Asst. Professor.

1903.  Took family to California in June. My last stay in Fairview. Taught a summer course in Mineralogy at Univ. of Cal.; examined a gold mine near Placerville for father; visited Redington mercury mine with Eakle to see Palacheite (?) in place.  H. O. Wood assistant this year.

1904.  Took family to Smith Cove, Nova Scotia, near Digby, to occupy the Jaggar place. With us were Alice Kavanaugh, her two children and Mad. Bocher and a friend. I was in Cambridge most of the summer. In November went to St Louis World Fair, hoping to secure Brazilian Minerals, had no luck but got many exhibits for economic mineralogy. Wolff bought the Frazar stock of teaching minerals and rocks that Fall. A daughter, Ruth, who lived but a few days, was born in April. Wood still Assistant.

	Charles Palache with daughters Mary (left), and Jeanette (right). Undated photo. Courtesy of Judith Palache Gregory.

1905.  Took family to Cranberry Island again. After settling them I went to Franklin, N.J. where I spent much of the summer for the U.S.G.S. Also visited collections of Franklin minerals at homes of Canfield, Hancock, Bement, and Roebling, making warm friendships. In April took class to Mt. Mica, Me. R. W. Richards Assistant. Millerite paper with Wood and the Bradshaw Folio published. My part of latter the Mining Geology.

1906.  Established the family at the Philbrook Farm, Shelburne, N.H. I made my first trip to Lake Superior Copper Mines in August and made small collections. Also to Washington, D.C. in connection with Franklin Folio, No. 161, then in preparation. Father died in January and Mary in November. Richards still Assistant.

1907.  Alice was born April 12th in the Buckingham Place house. That summer the family occupied a cottage at Ogunquit, Me. I went to California for a short visit with Mother who died in October. I worked up my part, the Mineralogy, of the Franklin Folio. Merwin Asst.

1903.  Family in Cohasset, Mass. with the Kavanaughs. Franklin Folio published. Fairview was sold in Berkeley and I received a share of the returns. We planned the Appleton St. house, Hartley Dennett arct. The house was begun in the summer and finished the following Spring. My sister Eliza was brought to the home of Dr. Worcester in Waltham this summer and stayed with him a year. Merwin still Asst.

	The Palache home on Appleton St., Cambridge MA. Undated photo. Courtesy of Judith Palache Gregory.

1909.  We moved into the Appleton St. house in March. Her addition to the house was built during the summer while she was in Tusket, Nova Scotia. She came to us in the Fall when the rooms were finished.  The family went to Shelburne, N.H. again. I gave some lectures at Queen's College, Kingston, 0nt. in February. Robt.Rarvie was Asst.. The pegmatite pipes in the Quincy Quarries were opened up and I collected the minerals in them and studied them with C. H. Warren of M.I.T.

1910.  Bought the Jaffrey Farm in May. Vacation fully occupied getting it in order and moving the bungalow for Eliza I stayed at the Ark while the work was going on. R. E. Somers assistant.

	Jaffrey, NH farm. Circa 1909. Courtesy of Judith Palache Gregory.

1911.   Spent the month of February with Jaggar in examining the Quartett Gold Mine in Searchlight, Nevada. A model of the mine during the winter. Helen left the house and children in care of Sister Eliza and visited her sister in Memphis, Tenn. and St. Louis. Published on the Quincy minerals, especially the parisite, with Warren.

1912.   Spent a good part of summer visiting New England mineral localities with J. C. Rand (see Museum History Notes) money for the trip was given by A. C. Holden. He came on in the late summer and made a trip with Wolff and me to get the purple apatite pocket I had secured in Maine. W. G. Foye became assistant and remained so for two years following. Jeannette went to England with Whitney and his family.

1913.   Whitney's wife, Belle Garber, died this year. Whitney who had been made a vice-president of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co. brought his family East and established a home in Farmington, Conn. I went to the Internat. Geol. Congress at Toronto, Ont. in August. Whitney's children as well as Eliza were in Jaffrey and the tennis court was constructed.

1914.  World War I began. Whole family in Jaffrey.

1915.  John Palache volunteered in French ambulance service, leaving Harvard Graduate School. I moved my laboratory to Pierce Hall. Wandtke assistant.

1916.  Went with R. A. Daly to Pigeon Pt. Minn. in August for brief trip.

1917.  Bought the lease of Noyes Mt. pegmatite ledge. James Palache to officers Training Camp at Plattsburg.

1918.  James Palache killed in action at Cantigny, France. Buried at Suresnes near Paris. I moved laboratory back from Pierce Hall to old quarters in museum. Teaching surveying in R.O.T.C. No assistant.

1919.  Short trip to Calumet, Mich. In December the Mineralogical Society of America was organized at a meeting in our lecture room.

1920.  Third preliminary trip to Calumet with A. Locke. Wrote the papers for the Mineralogist which were later published as a booklet on 2-circle Crystal Measurement. Whitney became Gen. Manager for U.S. of the Commercial Union Insurance Co. of London. He moved to West Orange, N.J.

1921.  My first sabbatical leave for a year. Rented 106 Appleton St. and the Farm. Drove to Buffalo with the family and went up the Lakes to Houghton, Mich. by steamer. Rented a house in Calumet and stayed until late Oct., working on the minerals of the Copper Deposits. See U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 144. Stored the car there, returned to Cambridge for a short time and in Nov. sailed on Arabic for Naples with Helen, Alice & Helen W. Jeanette and Mary at Whitney's in W. Orange when not at Bryn Mawr. I left the three ladies in Rome just after Christmas, went to London by train.

1922.  Early in January I sailed from Southampton for Cape Town as one member of the Shaler Memorial Expedition to South Africa; the others Daly Wright and Molengraaf. Gilson was substituting for me at Harvard. Was President of Min. Soc. of Amer.  I remained in S. Africa till June. Very ill with enteric fever in hospital of Diamond mining Co. at Kolmanskop German S.W. Africa. Was there for 4 weeks; Daly came down and helped me get back to Pretoria. For details of African experience see diary letters home. Return trip was with Daly from Lorenzo Marques on East Coast, thru Suez Canal and to Marseilles. Rejoined the two Helens and Alice in London and toured with them in England and Scotland, sailing from Glasgow. The Holden Fund was received by Harvard in 1922, Wolff retired, and I became Curator of the Museum and in full charge of the Dept. of Min. in 1923. Sister Loo visited in Llewellyn Park in winter.

1923.   Reorganization of library and quarters of Dept. (See museum History,  pg. 19). Landes in charge of opening of Noyes int. ledge in summer. He and Ettlinger assistants.

1924.   Sailed in late May for Bergen, Norway There met König, a grad. student who acted as my assistant on the trip. See Diary letters for details of trip with V. M. Goldschmidt, Brogger, Anderson, Aminoff. Large collections. Ended up in Heidelberg and Paris. Sailed back with Mary and Jeannette. Berman first at Cambridge as Museum Asst. Campbell and R. W. Goranson asst.

1925.  First summer trip with Guerdon Holden to Maine and New Hampshire localities. Issued first Harvard Number of Mineralogist. Lewis and Goranson assistants.

1926.  Sailed in May for Lisbon on way to Madrid for Spanish Internat. Geol. Congress.  In Lisbon saw Bello Collection, afterwards bought for Museum. Eye injured by rock splinter so I did not join excursions but traveled with an assistant (Dowman) to Rio Tinto, Granada and Linares. Returned by way of Switzerland and England. Met Russell and saw his collection at Redding. Rearranged Meteorite Coll. and published new Catalogue. Davidson and H. A. Powers assistants.

1927.  Summer trip with Holden and Berman to N.J. and Pa. localities, especially Franklin. In August Whitney, his daughter Helen and sister Eliza returned to Berkeley after his retirement. Jones and Powers assts.

1928.  Issued second Harvard number of Mineralogist. Alice graduated and went to England with Kate Hepburn. Jeannette in California. Mary married to C. O. Gregory the day after Christmas in Cambridge. Powers asst.

1929.  Summer trip with Holden and Berman to Ashville and Spruce Pine, N.C.

1930.  Second sabbatical (half year). To California with Helen in Feb. to visit at Carmel with Whitney. Auto trip to Idaho, Crater Lake and Victoria with Helen and W., going by way of the Redwoods, At Seattle on our way back word reached us that David had been born in Cambridge; so we hastened home help run the house.

1931.  Summer trip with Holden & Berman to Ontario. In the Fall the addition to the bungalow at Jaffrey made for Mary & Charles.

1932.  Summer trip with Holden to Colorado. Met Over and saw Cahn. Fine minerals from Pohndorf in Denver. Berman in Germany & England. Enlarged petrography quarters.

Whitney married Eliza Kline and Helen W. married Philip Lansdale. I flew from Colorado to Cal. for a few days visit and then back to Denver and thence home by train. First air trip. 3rd Harvard Number ?

Judith Gregory born in Chicago, Feb. 26.

1933.   Rearrangement of rooms with a new office for me where door was cut through wall. Gonyer and I worked the Topsham topaz pegmatite with success. Mary and Charles drove to Mexico in March while the children came to Cambridge, and later to Jaffrey with Stena. John was caretaker at Jaffrey. Helen, Mary and C. Hamlin drove to Chicago with the Hickeys to see World Fair. X-ray apparatus first installed by Berman.

1934.   Last summer trip with Holden, Berman & Foshag to Amelia Ct. House, Va. to work the dump of an old mica mine.  Bandy in Chile for the two Museums, our and  Nat. Mus. at Washington.

1935.   Went to Vienna by way of Naples in January to select minerals from Karabachek Collection.  Important acquisitions. Ruth Dyer came in October to spend winter.

1936.   Jeannette married to Russell Barker in Jaffrey in September. Had bronchial pneumonia in late Sept. Oct. President of Geol. Soc. of Amer. Received Roebling medal from Min. Soc. The Gregorys in Alexandria since Charles was in Labor Dept. We had Christmas there.

1937.   Began Dana work on G.S.A. award. Palache presentation number of Mineralogist published. Susan Barker born in Cambridge, August. Remodeled the woodshed at Jaffrey in summer. In Fall barn was moved to new location and tennis court enlarged.

1938.  Remodeling of barn completely in August. I flew to California in August to visit Eliza who was very low. She died on Dec. 31st. Whitney and Eliza Kline were in Jaffrey in mid-September. Hurricane struck on Sept. 21st. Clearing up woods by Dillon and his gang of lumbermen lasted on into the winter.

1939.  George Switzer came to the museum from Berkeley as museum asst. Gallery of Museum dismantled in summer and floored over. New rooms on second and third floors received in exchange.

1940.   I retired, taking second half-year as sabbatical. My last lecture in February.  Went to California with Helen to Carmel.  Whitney took us for a long trip to Death Valley. Visited Kramer Borax mine. Attended meeting of G.S.A. in Los Angeles. Last visit with Wolff in Pasadena. He died in Death Valley region that summer. Returned to Cambridge in August.

1941.   Flew to California in may to receive Hon. L.L.D. from Univ. of 50th anniversary of class.  Returned via Tucson, Ariz. where I saw the Tiger Mine with Galbraith. Stopped at Memphis where I saw Alice Kavanaugb and all the McKees. On July 18th the text of Vol. I of Dana System went to Wiley & Co.

1942.   Geol. and Min. Societies met in Cambridge. Completed my study of Calcite Forms, angles and critical table. Mimeographed but not published. Alice Kavanaugh?

1943.   War years. Worked in Museum, rearranging minerals in cases on new system. Christmas in Cambridge. I, Charles Gregory, Helen & Alice in Jaffrey until just before Christmas.

1944.  Vol. I of Dana appeared in print. Berman, flying to England on a war mission was killed in plane crash at Prestwick, Scotland on Aug. 27th. Russell in New York; J. and Sue in Williamstown.

1945.   Russell in Switzerland. Jeannette and Sue in Cambridge and Jaffrey.

1946.   Christmas in Chicago at Mary's with Alice. The Barkers all in Berne, Switzerland.

1947.   Christmas in Cambridge. Charles & Mary stayed in Jaffrey till then. Jaffrey house painted. Barkers all back from Switz. in July and came to Jaffrey for summer. To Hamilton, N.Y. Colgate Univ. for a year.

1948.   Christmas in Cambridge with Alice. Jeannette and Sue came just after for a week. Barkers settled in Troy, N.Y. at Russell Sage College. Cambridge house shingled and painted, in Spring. Kitchen renovated in fall.

1949.   Helen died Oct.27th. Had Christmas in new home of Mary and Charles in Charlottesville, Va. There Dec 8 to Jan. 1. Eloise Dyer came to visit in mid October and stayed on with me till April, '50.

1950.   In May visited Jeannette in Troy. Came back by way of Litchfield Conn. where I spent two days with C. H. Warren. He died in August. Peacock visited me in Spring. He died after only a year's illness in Oct. Attended meeting of Geol. and Min. Societies in Washington in November. Christmas with Gregorys and Alice Eloise Dyer came on and stayed with me in Jan. and remained to visit in Jaffrey.

1951.   Vol. II of Dana System appeared.. David Gregory and his classmates Holden and DeCuevas came to live at 106 Appleton St. Barkers came for Christmas.

1952.   Visited Mary and Charles in April to see Virginia Spring and to discuss building there. Decided in early Spring to sell Cambridge house and did so after short delay to Neil Powell of Boston. Actual transfer made Aug. 15th after furniture had been sent to the new cottage in Va.