Thacher, Thomas – Thayer, Thomas Baldwin
Thacher, Thomas
clergyman, author, was born May 1, 1620, in England. He was a Puritan clergyman, pastor and physician at Weymouth, Mass., in 1644- 66, and pastor of the Old South church in Boston from 1666. He published, in 1677, A Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New England How to Order Themselves and Theirs in the Small Pocks or Measels, supposed to be the first medical work published in New England. He died Oct. 15, 1678, in Boston, Mass.
Tharin, Robert Seymour Sym- Mes
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 10, 1830, near Charleston, S. C. He is a lawyer of Alabama who was prominent as a unionist during the civil war, and has since been employed in the auditor's office in Washington. He is the author of Arbitrary Arrests in the South; and Letters on the Political Situation.
Thatcher, Benjamin Bussey
lawyer, author, poet, was born Oct. 8, 1809, in Warren, Maine. He was the son of Col. Samuel Thatcher, a noted lawyer, and a member of congress. He became an eminent lawyer of Boston, Mass. He edited a volume of Mrs. Hemans's Poems; contributed Lives of the Indians to Harper's Family Library; and for their Juvenile Series a work called Indian Traits. He traveled extensively; and contributed sketches of his travels to the leading journals of America. He died July 14, 1840, in Boston, Mass.
Thatcher, Henry Knox
naval officer, was born May 26, 1806, in Thomaston, Maine. In 1823 he was a midshipman; passed through all the grades; and was appointed rear-admiral in 1866. He died April 5, 1880, in Boston, Mass.
Thatcher, Moses
mormon apostle, was born Feb. 2, 1842, in Sangamon county, Ill. He is now vice-president of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile institution of Salt Lake City, and of the Deseret National and Deseret Savings banks.
Thatcher, Oliver Joseph
educator, clergyman, author, was born about 1850 in Ohio. He is a presbyterian clergyman, assistant professor of mediæval and English history in the university of Chicago from 1893; and the author of A Sketch of the History of the Apostolic Church; Europe in the Middle Age; and A Short History of Mediæval Europe.
Thaxter, Adam Wallace
dramatist, author, was born Jan. 16, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He was a dramatist of Boston among whose plays are, The Sculptor; Olympia; Mary Tudor; and The Painter of Naples. He published, also, The Grotto Nymph. He died June 8, 1864, in Boston, Mass.
THAXTER, MRS. CELIA [LAIGH- TON], poet, was born June 24, 1836, in Portsmouth, N. H. She was a poet whose childhood and much of her later life spent in the was Isles of Shoals. Her verse is distinctly original and is largely the poetry of the shore, such poems as The Sandpiper; Courage; Kittery Church-Yard; The Spaniards' Graves; and The Watch of Boon Island, being characteristic of her work in verse. Her volumes of verse comprise, Drift-Weed; The Cruise of the Mystery; Idyls and Pastorals; Verses; Poems for Children; and Poems, Appledore Edition. She wrote, also, An Island Garden; and Among the Isles of Shoals. She died in 1894,
Thayer, Abbott Henderson
artist, was born Aug. 12, 1849, in Boston, Mass. He painted chiefly animals until he had been two years abroad. Since that time he has devoted himself principally to figure-painting. He has also essayed landscapes with success. At the Paris salon of 1877 he exhibited Le sommeil; and in the following year he sent a portrait.
Thayer, Alexander Wheelock
author, was born Oct. 22, 1817, in South Natick, Mass. He is a writer whose later life has been spent abroad, and who was consul at Trieste in 1859-82. His most important work, a Life of Beethoven, the third volume of which was published in Berlin in 1887, has not been printed in English. It is still unfinished. The Hebrews and the Red Sea; and Signior Masoni and Other Papers by the late I. Brown.
Thayer, Amos M
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 10, 1841, in Mina, N.
Y. During the war he was first lieutenant and brevet major in the United States signal corps. In 1865 he moved to Missouri, and became a noted lawyer of St. Louis. In 1876 he was elected judge of the eighth judicial circuit court; was re-elected in 1882; and subsequently was appointed one of the circuit judges.
Thayer, Charles Paine
physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 22, 1843, in West Randolph, Vt. He filled the chair of anatomy in the university of Vermont; and was professor of anatomy in Tufts college. He is president of the Vermont Veteran association of Boston, Mass.
Thayer, Eli
educator, congressman, author, was born June 11, 1819, in Mendon, Mass. He served as alderman of the city of Worcester in 1853; and was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature during the years 1853 and 1854. He was elected a representative to the thirtyfifth congress from that state; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He is the author of A History of the Kansas Crusade-its Friends and its Foes.
Thayer, Mrs. Emma Homan
author, artist, was born Feb. 13, 1842, in New York city. She is the author of Wild Flowers of Colorado; Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast; and a novel entitled An English-American. She is also a successful artist of Salida, Colo.
Thayer, James Bradley
educator, author, was born in 1831 in Massachusetts. He is a professor in the Harvard Law school at Cambridge; and the author of A Western Journey with Mr.
Emerson; Cases on Constitutional Law; and A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law. was
Thayer, John Milton
soldier, legislator, governor, was born Jan. 24, 1823, in Bellingham, Mass. He graduated from Brown university; settled in Nebraska in 1854; and was elected brigadiergeneral and then major-general in defense of the frontier against hostile Indians. He was thus engaged till the war for the defense of the union. He entered the army as colonel of the first regiment Nebraska infantry; was commander of a brigade at Fort Donelson and Shiloh; and was made a brigadier-general for gallant conduct on those fields. He led a storming column at Chickasaw bayou; and his horse was shot from under him at Arkansas post. He commanded a brigade and division through the siege of Vicksburg, after which he was made commander of the district and army of the frontier. On admission of Nebraska as a state he was elected United States, senator. Afterward he was made governor of Wyoming, and three times governor of Nebraska.
Thayer, Joseph Henry
educator,. clergyman, author, was born Nov. 7, 1828, in Boston, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman, professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation in the Divin-- ity school of Harvard university from 1884; and the author of Books and Their Use; The Change of Attitude Toward the Bible; and A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament.
Thayer, Martin Russell
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, was born Jan. 27, 1819, in Petersburg, Va. He was elect-- ed a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-- elected to the thirty-ninth congress. After leaving congress in 1859 he became district judge for Philadelphia. He is the author of The Duties of Citizenship; The Great Victory: its Cost and Value; The Law as a Progressive Science; On Librar-- ies; Life and Works of Francis Lieber; and The Battle of Germantown.
Thayer, Nathaniel
clergyman, was born July 11, 1769, in Hampton, N. H..
In 1795 he was installed over the Unitarian society at Lancaster, Mass., where he remained for nearly fifty years. He pub-- lished twenty-three occasional sermons. in 1795-1821. He died June 23, 1840, in Rochester, N. Y.
Thayer, Nathaniel
capitalist,. philanthropist, was born Sept. 11, 1808, in Lancaster, Mass. He contributed to a commons hall, erected Thayer hall in 1870 as a memorial of his father and brother, bore the expenses of Prof. Louis Agassiz's expedition to South America,. which was known as the Thayer expedition, built a fire-proof herbarium at the Botanic garden, and gave much in aid of poor students of the college. He died March 7, 1883, in Boston, Mass.
Thayer, Simeon
soldier, journalist,. was born April 30, 1737, in Mendon, Mass..
In 1775 he was appointed captain by the Rhode Island assembly, and accompanied Benedict Arnold's expedition against Quebec. He was promoted major in 1777, and served with great credit in the defense of Red Bank and at Fort Mifflin, receiving for the latter a sword from the Rhode Island assembly in July. His Journal of the Invasion of Canada in 1775 has been edited by Edwin M. Stone. He died Oct.. 14, 1800, in Cumberland, Pa.
Thayer, Stephen Henry
banker,. author, was born in 1839 in New Hampshire. He is a banker of New York city living at Tarrytown, N. Y., who has pub-- lished Songs of Sleepy Hollow.
Thayer, Sylvanus
soldier, civil engineer, author. He was a military engineer of distinction, superintendent of West Point academy in 1817-33, and from 1836-68 in charge of the military defenses of Boston. He was the author of Papers. on Practical Engineering. He died Sept.. 7, 1872, in South Braintree, Mass.
Thayer, Thomas Baldwin
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 10, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was a universalist clergyman of Lowell; and the author of Over the River; Christianity vs. Infidelity; Historical Doctrine of Endless Punishment; Bible Class Assistant; and Theology of Universalism. He died Feb. 12, 1886, in Roxbury, Mass.