Edward Carrington Thayer

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He was the son of Joseph and Chloe (Taft) Thayer. Born May 10th,1828 in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He studied locally and at schools in Lancaster and Lanesboro. At age 17, he started clerking the office of Welcome Farnum in the Waterford section of Blackstone.

In 1871 he headed to New Hampshire to lease a woolen mill in the Ashelot village of Winchester and organized the firm of Thayer, Pratt and Turner. In 1872 he became a director of the Winchester National Bank and later bought out his associates. In 1873 he married Miss Julia Beatrice Ball, daughter of David and Fannie (Capron) Ball. They lived in Keene, New Hampshire where he was a city councillor (1876-1877) and alderman (1877-1878). His business flourished and later obtained a second mill. In 1876 he became president of the Winchester bank and served until his death.

Characterized as successful and forward-looking, with an honorable and distinguished record he had "amassed a large fortune through business activities and wise management, and distributed a large portion of it to worthy purposes in his lifetime and left other gifts by his will." From a newspaper column Cheshire County NH history by DK Proper May 10th 1967. He built the Thayer Memorial Building in Uxbridge Massachusetts home to the Uxbridge Free Public Library and the Keene NH Public Library [1]