The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-04-20
OBIT JAR. Y
Henry G. Thayer.

Henry G. Thayer was born
April 20, 1884, in the town of Eu-
cid, Onondaga county, New
York. He departed this life in
Plymouth, Indiana April Is, 1905
aged 20 years, IL months and 20
days. His parents were Rev.
George H. and Hannah (Griffin)
Thayer, who were also natives of
New York state. The Thayers
in America are descended from
two brothers. Richard and
Thomas Thayer, who emigrated
from England and settled at
Braintree, Massachusetts, about
the year 1880. They came from
Braintree, Essex County, Eng
land. Rev. George II. Thayer
was for seventy years minister
of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, profound thinker, clear
and forcible writer and strong
and convincing speaker, a man of
great spirituality and ability as a
theologian. From a sense of du-
ty he refused all compensation
for his ministerial work, supper
ting his family by secular occu-
lpations.
Henry C. Thayer came with
his fathers family to Indiana in
1915. The trip from New York
to Indiana was made from SYRIA
cuse, New York on the Erie can
al to Buffalo, thence on Lake
Erie to Toledo, Ohio, thence by
Wabash and Erie canal to Peru.
Here he attended school
taught by his father for three
years. He had previously atten-
ded the schools in New York
state. The family came to Mar
shall County in 1919 from Peru
over the Michigan road, then the
main thoroughfare of travel in
Northern Indiana. During the
winters. of 1919 and 1850 he
taught school in Marshall Coun-
farming a large tract of land
which he had purchased south
west of Bourbon. He taught a
geography school which many Of
the old residents of Marshall
County remember and which he
often referred to with pleasure.
The careful training he had re-
ceived from his father, his natur-
al aptitude and general knowl
edge fitted him for the position
of teacher in the schools of Mar
shall County. In 1851 he be-
came a clerk in the drug store o.
Henry B. Pershing with whom
he remained about six months
and for the next five years wa:
employed by John L. Westervel
and Rufus Hewett as salesman
bookkeeper and confidential
clerk. Subsequently he entered
the Iron City Commercial Col
lege at Pittsburgh, Pa, from
which he graduated with higf
| honors. Returning to. Plymouth
Ind, in 1857 he became book
keeper in the dry goods store o
Gibson Cleveland and Ruff:
Hewitt which position he relin
pushed to become for shor
time deputy sheriff of Marshal
County He then entered bust
ness life on his own account a:
shipper of farm products anc
in 1858 began the business O
shipping grain which he contin
ued for forty-hve years, owning
and operating grain elevators il
| Plymouth, Bourbon, Argos
| Walnut, and Huntington, Ind.
being for many years the larges
shipper on the P. Fl. w. & c. R'y
between Fl. Wayne and Chicago
In 1859 he was associated with N
r. Packard i'll the grocery bust
ness, and later in drygoods with
| A. L. Wheeler, also with n. H
Oglesbee in the general lumber
trade, until 1868 when he dis
posed of part of his interests tc
c. L. Mattingly and later SOLD
this remaining interest to Mr.
Black giving his whole bushes:
attention to handling grain. HI
had other interests in lumber il
| Wisconsin and in 1881 he formed
partnership with George w
Mears of Philadelphia, commits
sion merchant and buyer of grain
doing the third largest business
in that line in Philadelphia ant
buying largely throughout the
west. This partnership was dis
solved in 1882. He was associa
ted for many years with his
brother, Hon. J. d. Thayer, (dc-
ceased) of Warsaw, Indiana
in the grain business at Warsaw
Huntington, and Bourbon, Indi-
ono ODD p;tfchuroh po He uas