John Boyd Thacher
American politician
Died when: 61 years 167 days (737 months)Star Sign: Virgo
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John Boyd Thacher (September 11, 1847 – February 25, 1909) was the Mayor of Albany, New York and New York State Senator as well as an American manufacturer, writer, and book collector.
He was the son of Albany mayor, , and the uncle of Albany mayor, John Boyd Thacher II.Thacher was born in Ballston, New York, graduated from Williams College in 1869 and settled in Albany, New York.
He became an active scholar in writing after college and also became active in his father's business, the Thacher Car Wheel Works, which was one of the leading industries in Albany.
When his father died in 1887, John and his brother George became proprietors of the business.Thacher and his wife, Emma Treadwell Thacher, had no children.
Thacher was the uncle of Ebby Thacher, who was regarded as the man who brought Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, into the Oxford Group, which was the model for the later fellowship for alcoholics.In 1914, Thacher's widow, Emma Treadwell Thacher, gave 350 acres of land on the Helderberg escarpment, where the couple had had their summer home, to the state of New York; the scenic park, rich with fossils and caves, is now called John Boyd Thacher State Park 2.[1].
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