Bio of THATCHER, Myron William, Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 502, 503
M. W. THATCHER (Myron William Thatcher)
Although but thirty-nine years of age, M. W. Thatcher, president of the N. W.
Thatcher Company and an accountant of repute, has achieved substantial success
in life. He was born in Indiana, a son of Samuel J. and Mary Agnes (Kimmer)
Thatcher, the former of Scotch descent and the latter of Pennsylvania Dutch
stock.
M. W. Thatcher received his early education in the public schools of his native
state and after graduating from high school attended Purdue University, taking a
two-year course in civil engineering. After putting his textbooks aside he took
up accounting and worked for leading firms in Chicago for some nine years. In
1909 he came to Minneapolis and made a practical study of the grain and milling
business, in order to perfect himself in accounting for this industry. For some
thirteen years he has been identified with the accounting business in this city
and in 1915 he organized the M. W. Thatcher Company, which company makes a
specialty of grain and milling accounts and a subspecialty of cooperative
institutions. By careful study and computation Mr. Thatcher has estimated that
there is a loss in excess of eight million dollars in the elevators of the
Northwest yearly, and he has a remedy for this loss, all of which he sets forth
in a series of articles that he has written for trade journals. The subject is a
strictly educational one and brought Mr. Thatcher to the attention of the
leading grain men throughout the United States. Mr. Thatcher well merits the
success he has achieved, for he is in every sense of the word a self-made man.
He paid for his higher education and his laudable ambition, close application to
the thing at hand and innate ability were dominant factors in his rapid
advancement.
On the 24th of August, 1901, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Thatcher to Miss
Eva May Nichols and to their union three children have been born: Marcella,
Myron W., Jr., and Eva Jean.
In politics Mr. Thatcher follows an independent course, voting for the man he
thinks best fitted for the party without regard for party principles.
Fraternally he is identified with the Masons and his religious faith is that of
the Congregational church. He is a trustee of the Lynnhurst Congregational
church and chairman of the finance committee. Mr. Thatcher owns a beautiful
summer home in Wisconsin and there he finds recreation in fishing and other
outdoor sports. He is one of the most prominent and public-spirited citizens of
Minneapolis and no movement for the improvement of the general welfare seeks his
aid in vain. During the years of his residence in this city he has wielded a
great influence for good and he is highly esteemed for his integ­rity and
sterling worth.