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Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr.

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Birth	:	27 Sep 1881 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death	:	1 Jan 1937 Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial	:	North Village Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.4724998, -71.6778030
Description	:	Parents: Eugene Van Rensselaer and Susan (Spring) Thayer Sr. Husband of: 1. Gladys Baldwin (Brooks) Thayer, 2. Elizabeth (Harding) Thayer. In 1904, immediately after graduating from Harvard, he opened a brokerage business in Boston, which ended in 1912 when he became president of the Merchants National Bank of Boston. He moved to New York and took office as president of the Chase National Bank in 1918, which he resigned in 1921, but remained as a director. He was a director of Bethlehem Steel, Coca Cola, Otis Elevator, American Telephone and Telegraph, the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., Kansas... Read More	Parents: Eugene Van Rensselaer and Susan (Spring) Thayer Sr. Husband of: 1. Gladys Baldwin (Brooks) Thayer, 2. Elizabeth (Harding) Thayer. In 1904, immediately after graduating from Harvard, he opened a brokerage business in Boston, which ended in 1912 when he became president of the Merchants National Bank of Boston. He moved to New York and took office as president of the Chase National Bank in 1918, which he resigned in 1921, but remained as a director. He was a director of Bethlehem Steel, Coca Cola, Otis Elevator, American Telephone and Telegraph, the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co., Kansas City Stockyards Co., and the Pere Marquette Railroad and numerous other firms, a director and chairman of the executive committee of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, and was once chairman of the Stutz Motor Car Company. (Eugene Thayer, 55, Ex-Banker, Dead. New York Times, Jan. 2, 1937.) His first wife, Gladys Baldwin Brooks, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Mortimer Brooks of New York. His ushers were Reginald Brooks, Philip Livermore, Delancey Jay, Hugh Minturn, Reginald Boardman, George P. Snow, Charles E. Perkins, and John L. Saltonstall, and James Jackson was best man. Adelaide Randolph, stepdaughter of William C. Whitney, was one of her bridesmaids. (Thayer-Brooks Wedding. New York Times, Sep. 4, 1903.) His mother-in-law created a $100,000 trust fund at the United States Trust Company for her grandson, Robert Thayer, administered by Frank L. Polk. (Grandchildren Get Estate. New York Times, Sep. 14, 1920.) His grandfather, Nathaniel Thayer, was a large benefactor of the Harvard Medical School. He was best man at the wedding of Reginald Boardman to Carrie Louise Munn, daughter of Mrs. Charles A. Munn of Washington, formerly of Chicago. He and Boardman later went to a dance at the home of Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh. (Washington Post, Feb. 18, 1911.) He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard University Undergraduates Aerp Training Corps, whose other members were William Thomas, George von L. Meyer, G. Richmond Fearing, N. Penrose Hallowell, Allan Forbes, Eliot Wadsworth, Philip A. Carroll, S. Huntington Wolcott, Charles E. Perkins, Benjamin Joy, A.J. Drexel Paul, Gordon H. Balch, and Roger Amory, chairman. (Harvard Aviators Ready for Licenses. New York Times, Aug. 25, 1916.) Thayer and his first wife were divorced in 1923, and he married Mary Elizabeth Harding, daughter of W.P.G. Harding, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, who was divorced from Frederick H. Prince Jr. the same day the Thayers got their decree. (Mrs. F.H. Prince Jr. Weds E.V.R. Thayer. New York Times, Jul. 1, 1923.) He left a $100,000 bequest to his secretary, $10,000 to his stepson, Frederick H. Prince 3d, and $5,000 to the Unitarian Church at Lancaster, Mass., with the residue to his wife. (Thayer's Will Is Filed. New York Times, Jan. 16, 1937.) His son, Robert Thayer, married Jean Forbes, daughter of John McHale Forbes, the Canadian Minister of Mines. (Thayer-Forbes. New York Times, Aug. 18, 1937.)

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Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr.'s memorial is located at: North Village Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester County, USA.
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Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer Jr. death on 1 Jan 1937 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
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Latitude: 42.4724998
Longitude: -71.6778030

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Parent

Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer Sr.

(1855 - 1907)

Susan Spring Thayer

(1854 - 1911)

Spouse

Siblings

Katharine Spring Thayer Cate

(1882 - 1953)

Susan Thayer Bigelow

(1885 - 1942)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. North Village Cemetery
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4724998, -71.6778030

2. Thayer Cemetery
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4578500, -71.7024400

3. Middle Cemetery
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4491997, -71.6757965

4. Old Settlers Burial Yard
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4488754, -71.6742706

5. Old Common Burial Ground
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4426700, -71.6645300

6. Eastwood Cemetery
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4417000, -71.6528015

7. Saint Benedict Center Cemetery
Harvard, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4827900, -71.6231900

8. Saint John's Cemetery
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4328003, -71.6977997

9. West Burying Ground
Bolton, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4488983, -71.6300964

10. North Burial Ground
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5134048, -71.6627274

11. Woodlawn Cemetery
Clinton, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4185982, -71.6889038

12. Shirley Shaker Cemetery
Lancaster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5240700, -71.6514700

13. Bellevue Cemetery
Harvard, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4958000, -71.6055984

14. Saint Cecilias Cemetery
Leominster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5166800, -71.7331900

15. Oak Hill Cemetery
Sterling, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4417000, -71.7493973

16. Hillside Cemetery
Sterling, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4410000, -71.7492570

17. Saint Leo Cemetery
Leominster, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5153008, -71.7472000

18. Chocksett Burial Ground
Sterling, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4377000, -71.7555400

19. West Cemetery
Sterling, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4514100, -71.7651400

20. Reservoir Pines Cemetery
Clinton, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4084900, -71.7109700

21. Saint Anthony's Cemetery
Shirley, Middlesex County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5374527, -71.6467056

22. Fort Devens Post Cemetery
Devens, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5285206, -71.6220240

23. Village Cemetery
Shirley, Middlesex County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5398026, -71.6539230

24. Fairbank Burial Ground
Sterling, Worcester County, USA
Coordinate: 42.4152600, -71.7320000