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He was born in Franklin, Massachussets, on February 23, 1820. His father, Davis Thayer, merchant and early manufacturer of straw hats, was a descendant of Thomas Thayer, freeman of Braintree, Essex, England, who received title of lands at Braintree, Massachussets, soon after its first settlement. His mother, Betsey (McKepiece) Thayer, of limited education and unsatisfied literary longings, aroused in him a desire for education and a professional life.
He began attending the district school when he was four. Before he was fifteen he was studying at the Franklin academy. In 1843 he received the A. B. degree from Brown University.
He taught school in Attleboro, South Braintree, and Franklin, Massachussets, and studied theology with the Rev. Jacob Ide of West Medway, Massachussets In 1844 he was licensed to preach by the Mendon conference of orthodox churches, but he did not at once give up teaching, which he considered a useful preparation for preaching.
He began preaching at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachussets In 1849 he accepted the pastorate of the Congregational Church at Ashland, Massachussets, which he held until 1857 when he was forced to give up preaching because of throat trouble.
He continued to the end of his life to preach occasionally in neighboring churches. In 1858 he extended his educational and religious work beyond the bounds of school room and church. From 1858 to 1862 he was editor of The Home Monthly to which he and many of his ministerial friends were prolific contributors. He was editor successively of the Nation, 1864-68, and Mother's Assistant, 1868-72. He was twice a member of the Massachusetts General Court, in 1857-58 and in 1863-64. He was also secretary of the Massachusetts State Temperance Alliance from 1860 to 1876.
He never ceased writing from his early school days until his death. While still at the academy he began publishing his compositions in local temperance and religious papers. He frequently wrote funeral hymns and occasional verse. In 1853 he published The Gem and Casket, and the following year Life at the Fireside. In The Poor Boy and Merchant Prince the Life of . Amos Lawrence (1857) and The Poor Girl and the True Woman . Life of Mary Lyon (1857), he hit upon a form of biography that proved a popular way to point morals and to preach the gospel of virtue and success. Among his early biographies were The Bobbin Boy (1860), The Pioneer Boy and How he Became President (1863); among the later ones was A Youth's History of the Rebellion (4 vols. , 1864 - 65), which gave a partisan and contemporary account of the Civil War.
In the last decade of his life he published Success and Its Achievers (1891), later published as volume III of Ethics of Success (3 vols. , 1893 - 94), a series of school readers, Turning Points in Successful Careers (1895), Men Who Win (1896) and Women Who Win (1896). After his death the Unfinished Autobiography of William M. Thayer was privately printed by his son.
He traveled through the West once, to describe which he wrote Marvels of the New West (1887), but otherwise his experiences and associations were confined to his native state. He limited his reading to books he considered inspirational and ruled out novels as not contributing to intellectual strength. From his reading he compiled many notebooks of facts and incidents and others of his random thoughts, from which he later drew for illustrative material in his writing. His work was didactic and depended for its interest largely upon anecdote and incident.
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On October 19, 1845, he married Rebecca W. Richards, the daughter of Calvin Richards of Dover, Massachussets, by whom he had five children.
