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Thayer is a city in Oregon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,883 at the 2020 census. [4] Its original name was Augusta. History.
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Thayer Township is an inactive township in Oregon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] Thayer Township took its name from the community of Thayer, Missouri. [2]
Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman; March 1, 1926 – November 16, 2022) was a French actor who was mainly active in the United States. He is best known for his role as Corporal Louis LeBeau on the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971).
John Milton Thayer (January 24, 1820 – March 19, 1906) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a postbellum United States Senator from Nebraska. Thayer served as Governor of Wyoming Territory and Governor of Nebraska. Thayer was born in Bellingham, Massachusetts. He attended and taught in rural schools.
It lies 14 mi (23 km) southeast of Alton, 14 mi (23 km) east of Thayer and approximately 3 ⁄ 4 mi (1.2 km) north of the Arkansas state line. The community lies on a low ridge above the south side of Mill Creek along Missouri Route V. [2] Myrtle was laid out in 1878 by Jessie Moore, and named after his daughter Myrtle Moore. [3]
Missouri folklorist Margot Ford McMillen wrote that early settlers were attracted by Clark County's good and inexpensive agricultural land. One section was called "Bit Nation" because land was sold there for just twelve and one-half cents ("one bit" of a Spanish dollar) an acre.
W. Paul Thayer was born November 23, 1919, in Henryetta, Oklahoma and attended high school in Wichita, Kansas.After a high school, he attended Wichita State University, then spent a year working as an oil field roughneck, before enrolling at the University of Kansas, where he majored in petroleum engineering.