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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsTHAYER, Eli
(1819—1899)
THAYER, Eli, (father of John Alden Thayer), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Mendon, Worcester County, Mass., June 11, 1819; attended the common schools, the academies in Bellingham and Amherst, Mass., and the Worcester Manual Labor School; taught school in Douglas, Mass., in 1835 and 1836 and in Hopkington, R.I., in 1842; had charge of the boys’ high school in Providence, R.I., in 1844; was graduated from Brown University at Providence in 1845 and was an instructor in Worcester Academy 1845-1848; studied law and was admitted to the bar, but did not practice; founded the Oread Collegiate Institute, a school for young women, in 1848; member of the Worcester School Board in 1852; alderman of Worcester in 1852 and 1853; member of the State house of representatives in 1853 and 1854; while in the legislature secured a charter, and originated and organized the New England Emigrant Aid Co., which had for its purpose the sending out of an advance colony of antislavery settlers to Kansas; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Thirty-sixth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress; delegate accredited from Oregon to the Republican National Convention in 1860; engaged in railroad and other business pursuits; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1872 to the Forty-third Congress; died in Worcester, Mass., April 15, 1899; interment in Hope Cemetery.
Bibliography
Andrews, Horace. “Kansas Crusade: Eli Thayer and the New England Emigrant Aid Company.” New England Quarterly
35 (December 1962): 497-514.
Andrews, Horace. “Kansas Crusade: Eli Thayer and the New England Emigrant Aid Company.” New England Quarterly
35 (December 1962): 497-514.
Johnson, Oliver. The abolitionists vindicated in a review of Eli Thayer’s paper on the New England Emigrant Aid Company
. Worcester, Mass.: The Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1887.
Thayer, Eli. A History of the Kansas Crusade
. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
———. The New England emigrant aid company
. Worcester, Mass.: F.P. Rice, 1887.
———. The polygamy question. Speech of Hon. Eli Thayer, of Massachusetts. Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 3, 1860
. Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, Printers, 1860.
———. Six speeches
. Boston: Brown and Taggard, 1860.
———. Speech of Hon. Eli Thayer, delivered in Mechanics Hall, Worcester, August 10, 1860, in defense of free labor, and the rights of American citizens. With extracts from letters fo F.P. Blair, sen., and Montgomery Blair, sen., and Montgomery Blair; speech of John Sherman, and the
New York Tribune. [N.p., 1860]
———. The suicide of slavery. Speech of Hon. Eli Thayer, of Mass. Delivered in the House of representatives, March 25, 1858
. [Washington: Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1858].
———. The territorial policy. Speech of Eli Thayer, of Mass., in reply to Hon. Mr. Curtis and Hon. Mr. Gooch. Delivered in the U. S. House of Representatives, May 11, 1860
. [Washington: N.p., 1860].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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