Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 93 Sterling, Conn., Dec. 5, 1819. His ancestral lineis traced through Caleb, Reuben, Joseph, Ephraimand Shadrach to Thomas Thayer, a native ofThornbury, England, who came to America in 1630,settling on a large farm in Braintree, Massachusetts. After receiving a common-school education JohnW. Thayer began the trade of wool sorter, and,after working at one or two other places,
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 93 Sterling, Conn., Dec. 5, 1819. His ancestral lineis traced through Caleb, Reuben, Joseph, Ephraimand Shadrach to Thomas Thayer, a native ofThornbury, England, who came to America in 1630,settling on a large farm in Braintree, Massachusetts. After receiving a common-school education JohnW. Thayer began the trade of wool sorter, and,after working at one or two other places, finally tooka contract at Waterford, Mass. Here he was mar-ried, April 2, 1843 (which event will be fully spokenof farther on), and the next day he and his bridestarted overland for Rockville, Conn., where he hadentered into a business arrangement with the XewEngland Co., one of the woolen manufacturing con-cerns of that place. The journey occupied two days,undertaken in a sleigh, but ending on wheels. Eromthe position of wool sorter Mr. Thayer soon roseto be superintendent of the New England Co., fillingthat position successfully several years. In i860he bought the Ellington Mil
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