Sullivan-Bradford County PA Archives Biographies.....Thayer, J. H. 1868 - 
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  Author: Thomas J. Ingham (1899)
  
  PROFESSOR J. H. THAYER, principal of the Dushore high school, is one of the best
  known and efficient educators in Sullivan county and is deserving of the high
  esteem in which he is held, both as a teacher and as a citizen. He has occupied
  his present position for over a year, having begun his duties at the high school
  September 1, 1897, and during this time has given general satisfaction and
  proved himself to a marked degree an able and conscientious.
  
      Professor Thayer was born in New Albany, Bradford county, this state, August
  1, 1868, his parents being James and Tempe (Watson) Thayer. His father was of
  good old Virginia stock and of French descent, and spent his boyhood days in
  Virginia, where he attended the common schools until sixteen years of age, when
  he joined the Confederate army under General Lee and served nearly through the
  entire period of the war. Then he located in Elkland township, and afterward in
  Bradford county. He married Miss Tempe Watson, a daughter of Jairus H. and
  Rebecca (Van Loon) Watson.  In September, 1871, he removed to Bernice, Sullivan
  county, and died February 25, 1896; his wife had died February 24, 1895. They
  had nine children left by their death, namely: Elizabeth, now Mrs. Heflin;
  Jairus H.; William N.; Bernice, now Mrs. Shaffer; James M., Jr.; John W.; Cora,
  now Mrs. Rutherford; Frank A.; and George W.
  
      The subject of this review was well brought up and early learned habits of
  honesty and industry. While a boy he attended the common schools and also
  pursued his studies at home, subsequently attending Susquehanna College at
  Towanda and the State Normal at Mansfield, and when only seventeen years old
  began teaching school during his vacations. For the past thirteen years he has
  been constantly employed as a teacher, eight years of which he had charge of the
  schools at Bernice. He is now, as has been stated, principal of the Dushore high
  school, which contains one hundred and thirty scholars, and he is assisted in
  his duties by two ladies, Miss Julia Cronin and Miss Jennie Vaughn. Professor
  Thayer has been most successful in his chosen calling and has gained the
  affection and respect not only of his pupils but of their parents also, who find
  in him a capable teacher and a man worthy of their confidence in every respect.
  He is genial in his manners and popular with all classes of good society.
  
      Professor Thayer was married July 15, 1891, at New Albany, Pennsylvania, to
  Miss Annie Coyle, a popular and successful teacher of Bradford county. Four
  children have been born to this union: Frederick William, Francis Ivan,
  Mildred Eugenia and Nellie R.
  
  
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              Extracted from: 
                  
                History of Sullivan County Pennsylvania
                by Thomas J. Ingham
                  
                   Compendium of Biography
                  
             The Lewis Publishing Company
                Chicago: 1899
   
  
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