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Name: Sylvanus Thayer
Birth Date: June 9, 1785
Death Date: September 7, 1872
Place of Birth: Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Braintree, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: educator, engineer

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Biography of Sylvanus Thayer
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Sylvanus Thayer (1785-1872), American educator and engineer, put the U.S. Military Academy on a secure footing and promoted civil engineering as a collegiate course and profession. Sylvanus Thayer was born on June 9, 1785, in Braintree, Mass. He...


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Brigadier General Sylvanus Thayer (June 9, 1785 - September 7 1872) also known as "the Father of West Point" was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point and an early advocate of engineering education in the United...


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The Washington Post
On a Wing and a Thayer
05/07/1999: 758 words, approx. 3 pages
WITH PAINTER Abbott Thayer (1849-1921), the art is at war with the artist's personal history. As demonstrated by the National Museum of American Art exhibition "Abbott Thayer: The Nature of Art," his art is overwhelmingly pretty, dominated as it is by pictures of angels...
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The Washington Post
Thayer at the Bat
06/04/1988: 642 words, approx. 2 pages
One hundred years ago this week, on June 3, 1888, the ballad "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest "Phin" Thayer, a young freelance writer, first appeared in print-on page 4 of the San Francisco Examiner. It took a show business breakthrough, however, to...
 


 

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