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Thayer, Eli – Thickstun, Thomas

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, 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, 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.

Thickstun, Thomas

clergyman, poet, was born July 3, 1824, in Cassewago, Pa. He is an eminent baptist clergyman of Iowa; now fills a pastorate in the baptist church of Council Bluffs, of which church he was the principal founder. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems.