Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Thayer, Arthur Fletcher February 8, 1872 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ARTHUR FLETCHER THAYER, Merchant. Abandoning a promising career as a railroad 
man, after fifteen years of work in the central United States, Arthur F. 
Thayer came to Hawaii on Oct. 11, 1911, and won success in a far different 
field, that of selling musical instruments and music. He is now treasurer and 
manager of the Thayer Piano Co., Ltd., one of the largest firms of its kind in 
Hawaii. 
  The business had been established before Mr. Thayer’s arrival here by his 
father, the late Leonard E. Thayer, who died on March 19, 1917, when Arthur 
Thayer, then associated with the firm for almost six years, assumed the 
management.
  Mr. Thayer was born in Jackson, Mich., Feb. 8, 1872, the son of Leonard E. 
and Fannie M. (Fletcher) Thayer. He was educated in the public schools of Fort 
Wayne, Howe School and Purdue University in Indiana, and the University of 
Michigan, where he was graduated as a mechanical engineer.
  Beginning his career as apprentice machinist with the Wabash Railroad in 
1895, Mr. Thayer was later connected with other systems and had attained the 
position of master mechanic when he decided to come to Hawaii. Mr. Thayer 
married Hazel E. Hair of Carthage, Missouri, Oct. 8, 1907.
  He is a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity at the University of Michigan and 
is a member of the Oahu Country, Commercial, Outrigger Canoe and Rotary Clubs 
in Honolulu. He is a Mason, a Shriner, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce.


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