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-tere
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. THAYER, George Augustine Harvard B. 1869. Born in Randolph, Mass., 1839; educated at HollisInstitute, So. Braintree, Mass.; taught school, 1858-62;Captain 2d Mass. Regt. in the Civil War ; graduatedHarvard Divinity School, 1869; Pastor Hawes Unita-rian Church, So. Boston, 1869-82; First CongregationalChurch, Cincinnati, O., since 1882. GEORGE A. THAYER GEORGE AUGUSTINE THAYER, Clergy-man, was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, for Incurables, and of Antioch College ; is PresidentDecember 6, 1839, son of Elihu and Elizabeth of the Cincinnati Cremation Society, and member(Tirrell) Thayer. He is a descendant of Richard of the Board of Visitors to the Reform and PenalThayer, of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England, Institutions. He is a member of the Military Order UNUERSITIES AND TllElR SONS 15 of the Loyal
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