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.