Joseph Palmer (communard)

Joseph Palmer (1791—1874) was a member of the Fruitlands commune, and an associate of Louisa May Alcott and other Transcendentalists.cite web
title=Joseph Palmer
publisher=Amos Bronson Alcott
url=http://www.alcott.net/alcott/home/champions/Palmer.html
accessdate=2008-05-25] He appears as the character, Moses White in the Louisa May Alcott’s "Transcendental Wild Oats." He is also notable for serving a year in jail in Fitchburg, MA, for the crime of wearing a full beard. [cite web
url= http://www.dyers.org/blog/archives/2008/04/14/joseph-palmer-perscuted-for-wearing-the-beard/
title=Joseph Palmer Persecuted for Wearing the Beard
author=Jonathan E. Dyer
date=2008-04-14
site =John Dyer's blog
accessdate=2008-05-25] cite journal
author=Stewart Holbrook
journal = The American Scholar
date= Autumn 1944 | pages=454-458
title=The Beard of Joseph Palmer
url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&id=MYzCUqW_JOkC&oi=fnd&pg=PA95&dq=joseph.palmer+beard&ots=Sfpqjfi1yM&sig=Xmdm0Ph898zmneOANyHdGtIoL20
accessdate=2008-05-25] Palmer was also a founder of the Leominster and Harvard Benevolent Association with Charles Lane.cite web
url= http://www.alcott.net/alcott/home/champions/Lane.html
title = Charles Lane
publisher=Amos Bronson Alcott
accessdate=2008-05-25] Palmer was a veteran of the War of 1812.

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