Jabarkan Kehidupan awal dan pendidikan dari Sylvanus Thayer

Sylvanus Thayer lahir di Braintree, Massachusetts, sebagai putra dari pasangan petani Nathaniel Thayer dan istrinya Dorcas Faxon.

Hunt, Roger D. dan Brown, Jack R. Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990. .

Kershner, James William, Sylvanus Thayer – A Biography, Arno Press, New York, 1982, p. 329.

Eliot, Major George Fielding, Sylvanus Thayer of West Point, Messner, 1959

Lathem, Edward Connery, editor, The Beginnings of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. The Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, 1964