Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899

LC control no.	n 90650599
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1819-06-11
Death date	1899-04-15
Place of birth	Mendon (Mass.)
Place of death	Worcester (Mass.)
Affiliation	Oread Institute New England Emigrant Aid Company United States. Congress. House.
Profession or occupation	Legislators--United States.
Found in	nuc89-60156: His The admission of Oregon [MI] 1859 (hdg. on MH rept.: Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899; usage: Eli Thayer) LC data base, 5-29-90 (hdg.: Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, August 20, 2020 (Thayer, Eli (1819-1899); father of John Alden Thayer; 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)