J.W. Thayer Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted By Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: J. W. Thayer: proprietor of the New Cumberland planing mill, was born August 19th, 1839, in Fairview, and is a son of Nathan Thayer. When sixteen years of age he engaged with Mr. Thomas, at Sloan's Station, in Ohio, to learn the wagon maker trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years. Built the present planing mill in 1861. He was married in 1865 to Miss Elizabeth Baxter, of Wellsville, Ohio, who has borne him five children -- two boys and three girls. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. Elected in 1873-4 to the office of recorder of the incorporated village of New Cumberland. At present he is doing a good business in the manufacture of sash, doors, &c., &c.