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Jack Thayer. John Borland "Jack" Thayer III (December 24, 1894 – September 20, 1945) was a first-class passenger on RMS Titanic who survived the ship's sinking. Aged 17 at the time, he was one of only a handful of passengers to survive jumping into the frigid ocean. He later wrote and privately published his recollection of the sinking.
Sylvanus Thayer. Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer (June 9, 1785 – September 7, 1872) also known as the "Father of the Military Academy", [1] was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United States.
Businessman and government official. James Burdette Thayer (March 10, 1922 – September 16, 2018) was an American brigadier general who served on active duty during World War II. On May 4, 1945, Thayer and his platoon discovered and liberated 15,000 people held at a concentration camp near Wels, Austria. Following the war, he continued his ...
Tuesday, Nov. 28. The second day will consist of a Carter Center departure ceremony and tribute service, starting at 11:30 a.m. 11:30-11:45 a.m. — Carter Presidential Center departure ceremony.
On Monday, the first day of services, the former first lady lay in repose at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta. A private funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday in ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2018.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
John Thayer (priest) (1755–1815), Boston priest. John B. Thayer (1862–1912), American cricketer and businessman who died on the RMS Titanic. Jack Thayer (1894–1945), his son, survivor of the Titanic sinking. Jack G. Thayer (1922–1995), American radio executive and disc jockey.
Joseph Henry Thayer was born in 1828 in Boston. He graduated from Harvard University in 1850 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1857. From 1858 to 1864 he served as a pastor—first in Quincy, Massachusetts, then in Salem —and served as a chaplain of the 40th Massachusetts Volunteers in the Civil War.