Abiah W. Palmer (January 25, 1835 in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York – January 10, 1881 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado) was an American politician from New York.
Then he entered Union College, but due to ill health left in 1856 without graduating.
He spent several months taking the "water cure" at Clifton Springs, and then travelled for two years about Europe.
In 1859, he returned to his homestead in Amenia, and engaged in farming and the mining of iron ore.
Reuben E. Fenton as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners in charge to select a site to establish the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane.