Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Palmer, A.E.
Palmer, A. E.
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Asael Exile Palmer, 1888-1984, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. His family moved to Alberta in 1903 and homesteaded near Turin in 1909. He received his BSc in crops and soils at Utah State Agricultural College, and later obtained a second BSc from the University of Alberta. In 1921 he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Lethbridge Experimental Station. He became superintendent in 1945. He was a specialist in dry land farming and wrote many articles and books on irrigation, soil erosion, and water conservation.
He was a life member of the Alberta Institute of Agrologists and the Agricultural Institute of Canada, and was actively involved in the Alberta Agricultural Research Trust and the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA). He was inducted into the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1973. He was president of the Lethbridge Stake of the Mormon Church for twenty years.
He married Maydell Cazier in 1916 and they had four children, A. Delbert, Camille (Hawkins), Eileen (Smith) and Byron C.