. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. about the year1683. Having pursued a course in preliminaryclassical study at the Hollis Institute, South Brain-tree, he, in 1858, engaged in educational work, firstas teacher of a district school and subsequently asAssistant in academies. Enlisting in 1862 as Sec-ond Lieutenant in the Second Regiment, Massachu-setts Infantry, he served until the close of the CivilWar, attaining the rank of Captain, and was mus-ter
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. about the year1683. Having pursued a course in preliminaryclassical study at the Hollis Institute, South Brain-tree, he, in 1858, engaged in educational work, firstas teacher of a district school and subsequently asAssistant in academies. Enlisting in 1862 as Sec-ond Lieutenant in the Second Regiment, Massachu-setts Infantry, he served until the close of the CivilWar, attaining the rank of Captain, and was mus-tered out as such in 1865. Deciding to prepare forthe Unitarian ministry, he entered the HarvardDivinity School in 1866, from which he was gradu-ated in 1869, and in September of that year ac-cepted the Pastorship of the Hawes Church, SouthBoston, which he retained for the succeeding thir-teen years, or until October 1882, when he was in-stalled in his present Pastorate, that of the FirstCongregational Unitarian Church, Cincinnati, Thayer was a member of the Boston SchoolBoard from 1872 to 1882 ; is a Trustee of the As-sociated Charities, Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Home. (JEORGE A. THAYER for Incurables, and of Antioch College ; is Presidentof the Cincinnati Cremation Society, and memberof the Board of Visitors to the Reform and PenalInstitutions. He is a member of the Military Order UNIFERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 15 of the Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolu-tion and the New England Society of December 22, 18S0, he married KatherineThayer Abbott. They have two sons: AbbotAugustine and Gordon Woods Thayer. RICHARDSON, Alfred Stephen Harvard Law School in Austin Co., Tex., 1830; educated in the publicschools and at the Harvard Law School; taught school;practised law ; Secretary and Treasurer of the Houston& Texas Central Railway Co., 1867-84; Master inChancery of the Houston East & West Texas RailwayCo., 1885; City Secretary of the City of Housto
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