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About William Larned Thacher
William Larned Thacher
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 205840500
Associate Headmaster of The Thacher School, Ojai Valley, Nordhoff, California
William Larned Thacher is a son of Professor Thomas Anthony Thacher, BA Yale 1835 and MA 1838, LL.D., Western Reserve 1869 and Elizabeth Baldwin (Sherman) Thacher, who were married August 1, 1860, and had three other children: Sherman Day, Yale '83 (now associate headmaster of the Thacher School for boys at Nordhoff), Elizabeth (married William Kent, '87) and George Thacher, who died at the age of nineteen. Thomas Anthony Thacher was born January 11, 1815, in Hartford, Conn., and died April 7, 1886, in New Haven. He was the son of Peter and Anne (Parks) Thacher, and the great-great-great-great-grandson of the first pastor of the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts.
After graduation he taught for a few months in the Academy at New Canaan, Connecticut, and then for three years in Georgia. On December 1, 1838, he became a tutor of Latin at Yale and in August, 1842, was advanced to the professorship of Latin, in which position he remained until his death. He studied in Germany,
where he was the tutor of the father of the present emperor.
He married as his first wife, Elizabeth, second daughter of Rev. President Jeremiah Day, who died May 18, 1858, leaving five sons: James Kingsley, Yale '68 (died April 20, 1891), Thomas, Yale '71, M.A. '74, LL.B. Columbia '75, LL.D. 1903, Edward Stanley, Yale '72, Alfred Beaumont, Yale '74, tutor at Yale 1877-79, and John Seymour Thacher, Yale '77, M.D. Columbia '80, professor of clinical medicine at Columbia. Our classmate's mother, Elizabeth Baldwin Sherman, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, October 27, 1823, and is the daughter of Roger Sherman, Yale 1787, and Susan (Staples) Sherman, and the granddaughter of Hon. Roger Sherman, treasurer of Yale 1764-76, Honorary MA 1768, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Thacher was born in New Haven, October 9, 1866. His boyhood was spent in the place of his birth, and he was prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School. In college he received dissertation appointments in Junior and Senior years, was on the Yale Intercollegiate Tennis Team and president of the Tennis Club, on the Junior Prom Committee, an editor of the Yale Xetrs, and a member of Psi Upsilon and Skull and Bones.
He spent the first rear after graduation in the Yale Medical School and the three Tears following in the Union Theological Seminary of New York City. From 1888 to 1894 he was connected with the Students' Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York City and also with the University Settlement and Union Settlement of that city. In 1894-95 he was a home missionary in a Presbyterian church in East Bradford, Pennsylvania. Since 1895 he has been associated with his brother, Sherman Day Thacher, in the Thacher School for Boys, first as a teacher, then as assistant headmaster, and now as associate headmaster and head of the Latin department. He writes:
"My travels have included about twenty-five crossings of the continent for pleasure, health, school business and class meetings. Then, my mother and I have been to Europe three times, to Hawaii and Alaska twice, and even over the line into Mexico. We also feel as if the world comes to us, for some of the best part of it has, namely, the following '87 men: Clarke, Cowles, Coxe, John Curtis, Hawley. Johnson. Kent, Knight, Pomeroy, Tracy and George Woodward.
"My recreations have been games like tennis (the boys seldom beat me yet!), golf, baseball (we play daily with the boys at recess; I am first base), horseback riding, camping, fishing, auction bridge, backgammon with Madam Thacher, etc.
"I have always taken an interest in the Ojai Valley Presbyterian Church and am glad of a union of it and a Congregational church, which I helped along. They were each struggling missionary churches at different ends of the village street. They were put on wheels and rolled to a central point and became one self-supporting organization. Education and charitable works have interested me. like the local schools, several Los Angeles settlements. Children's Home Society, a missionary Thacher School in India, etc. My aims, I suppose, are covered by a motto of my father, 'Xe sua quisque sed aliena quoque inspiciat.' (I teach Latin and so may be allowed this liberty!
Thacher is also vice-president and a director of the Ojai Improvement Company, which owns a hotel, some land and the water works of the village, trustee of the Ojai Public Library, president of the Ojai cemetery, president of the Ojai Valley Tennis Club, trustee and chairman of the finance committee of the Ojai Presbyterian Church, and he has been a representative of the Yale Alumni Association of Southern California upon the Advisory Board since its formation. He is a Progressive Republican in politics and is a member of the Sierra, Ojai Valley, Ojai Valley Tennis and Golf clubs, the University Club of Los Angeles and the Archaeological Society of America.
He was married in Sierra Madre, California, June 27, 1911, to Hilda, daughter of John George Blumer. a retired English shipbuilder and present owner of an orange and lemon ranch near Los Angeles, and sister of Dr. George Blumer, dean of the Yale Medical School.
They have one child: Edith, born May 4. 1913. at Nordhoff, California
Several pieces of biographical info on William L Thacher at my blog: http://danegenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/04/stories-of-william-larned...
Also several photos of William and his family at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyleshistory/sets/72157624111131213/
Husband of Hilda Blumer
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William Larned Thacher's Timeline
| 1866 |
October 9, 1866
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New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1913 |
May 4, 1913
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Ojai, CA
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| 1953 |
November 2, 1953
Age 87
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, 2400 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, Los Angeles County, California, 91001, United States
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