William Finley Thompson founded Palmer Lake in 1883 and later became the town’s first elected mayor. Dr Thompson was cross-trained as a dentist and physician, a common practice of the time. He commuted from Palmer Lake on the Denver & Rio Grande rail line to practice dentistry in Denver in the 1880’s.
The instruments in this display were used by another physician and dentist of that approximate time, Dr. James Milford Chambers, as an itinerant dentist in the Dakotas.
