William Rockhill Nelson
William Rockhill Nelson( March 7, 1841 – April 13, 1915) was a real estate developer and co-founder of The Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri.
He donated his estate( and home) for the establishment of the Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art.
Place of burial: Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence Missouri.
Eli Thayer
Eli Thayer (June 11, 1819 – April 15, 1899) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1861.
He was born in Mendon, Massachusetts.
He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1840, from Brown University in 1845, and in 1848 founded Oread Institute, a school for young women in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He is buried at Hope Cemetery, Worcester.
He is chiefly remembered for his crusade to ensure that the Kansas Territory would enter into the United States as a free state.
With this aim in view, early in 1854 Thayer organized the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company to send anti-slavery settlers to the Kansas Territory.
In 1855, this organization joined with the New York Emigrant Aid Company and the name was changed to the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
The motives of Thayer in establishing the New England Emigrant Aid Company were questioned by historian David S. Reynolds who wrote that Thayer "opposed slavery not on moral grounds but because [he] wanted to foster laissez-faire capitalism in the Territory"
Local leagues were established whose members emigrated to Kansas and established towns.
The Company provided hotels for temporary accommodation (such as the Free State Hotel in Lawrence) and provided sawmills and other improvements.
Settlements were established at Manhattan, Lawrence, Topeka, and Osawatomie.
The clash of these settlers and other "Free-Stater" Northerners with pro-slavery settlers spawned the violence of Bleeding Kansas.
Thayer wanted to establish an antislavery colony in Virginia, but land was too expensive.
He then looked to western Virginia.
Thayer chose to build his colony at the mouth of Twelvepole Creek in Wayne County, Virginia now West Virginia.
He named his town Ceredo after the goddess Ceres.
The town was founded in 1857.
He enlisted fellow abolitionist Zopher D. Ramsdell to settle there and establish a boot and shoe factory.
It is open as a historic house museum.
Ebeneezer Thayer
Ebeneezer Thayer, Jr.( August 21, 1746 – May 30, 1809) was a Massachusetts farmer, military officer, town official, and politician who served in both branches of the Massachusetts legislature, as a member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council; and, from 1793 to 1794, as the first sheriff of Norfolk County, Massachusetts.
The Braintree Instructions, drafted by John Adams, were addressed to Thayer's father, Ebenezer Thayer, Esq., from his constituents in Braintree.
John A. Thayer
John Alden Thayer (December 22, 1857 – July 31, 1917) was a Representative from Massachusetts.
He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts.
He was the son of Eli Thayer.
He graduated from Harvard College in 1879.
He studied law at Columbia Law School in New York City.
He was admitted to the bar in 1889 and was a clerk of the central district court of Worcester from 1892 to 1897.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress from March 4, 1911 to March 3, 1913.
He failed reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.
He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1912.
In 1915, he was appointed postmaster of Worcester, and served until his death.
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Sennedjem
The Ancient Egyptian artisan Sennedjem lived in Set Maat( translated as" The Place of Truth"), contemporary Deir el- Medina, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite Thebes, during the reigns of Seti I and Ramesses II.
Sennedjem had the title" Servant in the Place of Truth".
He was buried along with his wife, Iyneferti, and family in a tomb in the village necropolis.
His tomb was discovered January 31, 1886.
When Sennedjem's tomb was found, in it there was regular furniture from his home, including a stool and a bed, which he actually used when he was alive.
His titles included Servant in the Place of Truth, meaning that he worked on the excavation and decoration of the nearby royal tombs.
Martin Russell Thayer
Martin Russell Thayer (January 27, 1819 – October 14, 1906) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
His grandnephew was John B. Thayer, who died on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic".
Emperor Daigo
Daigo's reign spanned the years from 897 through 930.
He is named after his place of burial.
Motherland (disambiguation)
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Question: Where was the place of burial of John A. Thayer's father?
Answer: Hope Cemetery