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Thacher was born at Ballston Spa, New York, in 1847. He was the son of George Hornell Thacher and his wife, Ursula Jane, the daughter of David Boyd. He was a direct descendant of Peter Thacher, 1651-1727.
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Thacher was born at Ballston Spa, New York, in 1847. He was the son of George Hornell Thacher and his wife, Ursula Jane, the daughter of David Boyd. He was a direct descendant of Peter Thacher, 1651-1727.
His early education was acquired under private tutors. He entered Williams College in 1865 and was graduated, cum laude, in 1869.
He began at the bottom in the Thacher Car Wheel Works, at Albany, N. Y. , learned the trade of a molder, attended business school in the evenings, and when thoroughly acquainted with the business was taken into the firm, a connection he maintained until his death.
He served as state senator from 1884 to 1885. As mayor of Albany, 1886-88, 1896-98, he gave the city two clean, vigorous, business administrations. He was named by President Harrison a member of the World's Columbian Exposition Commission, and became chairman of the committee of awards. Governor Hill made him a member of the analogous New York State Commission. In 1896, Thacher, always a Democrat, was nominated by that party for the governorship of New York, but he roused the indignant wrath of most of his political colleagues by declining to run on a free-silver platform with which he was distinctly out of sympathy.
During his first term as mayor, Albany celebrated her bicentennial anniversary, an affair which permitted Thacher to exploit all his zeal and enthusiasm as well as his interest in scholarship and historical research. The management of a successful winter carnival in February 1888, the procurement of a public market square, a much-needed public hall, and a new union station, were typical of his municipal achievements. A lasting memorial to his constant and generous thought for his community is the John Boyd Thacher Park, a scenic mountain and forest tract of 400 acres, which Mrs. Thacher, in fulfillment of her husband's plan and purpose, gave to the people of the state of New York in 1914.
Thacher's private life, as author and bibliophile, was equally fruitful and distinguished. A foremost and discriminating book collector, he assembled one of the two dozen existing complete sets of the signatures of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He left important collections on the French revolution and on Columbus and his voyages.
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As senator he vigorously sponsored laws for prison and housing reforms; he was influential in financing a new capitol building; and against party advice and public criticism he carried through to adoption by the New York legislature and the federal Congress a measure restoring Ex-President Grant to the retired list of generals.
He became, in 1882, a member of the Albany Board of Health, which he had helped to organize.
He was long prominent as a Free Mason and gave an exceptional Masonic library to the Albany lodge.
Thacher was a singularly active and versatile man, indefatigable in advancing the interests and welfare of the capital district. To a vivid, magnetic personality, there were joined in Thacher many lovable traits. He was simple and unaffected in behavior, quick in sympathy and unostentatious benevolence, a liberal patron of arts and letters, a genial, many-sided, and accomplished scholar.
On September 11, 1872, he was married to Emma, the daughter of George Curtis Treadwell, of Albany, who survived him. There were no children.