of Philadelphia, PA
THACHER, Thomas Chandler, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Yarmouth Port, Mass., July 20, 1858; attended the public schools; was graduated from Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass., in 1878 and from Harvard University in 1882; became engaged in the wool business at Boston in 1882; president of the Barnstable County Agricultural Society; president of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Association; chairman of the Yarmouth Port Planning Board; served as chairman of the Provincetown Tercentenary Commission in 1920; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914; writer on business topics and also engaged in his former business pursuits; died in Boston, Mass., April 11, 1945; interment in Woodside Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Mass.
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Papoose Island
Washington Post; June 16, 1907.
W. Fellowes Morgan, secretary of the United States Golf Association, today announced the entries for the national open gold championship, which will be decided over the links of the Philadelphia, Cricket Club on Thursday and Friday of next week.Time; Monday, February 15, 1932.
Toastmaster and organizer of the banquet was William Fellowes Morgan (Columbia, 1880), president of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Patrician, handsome and ruddy at 71, he is rich (warehouses, refrigerating), High Church Episcopalian (president of the Church Pension Fund), a famed after-dinner speaker and clubman. Toastmaster Morgan, member of the Columbia Society of the Early 80's, was Columbia's second alumni trustee (1910 to 1916).President of the Brooklyn Bridge Freezing and Cold Storage Company; a director of the Merchants Refrigerating Company; director of the Tri-State Land Company; director of the Citizens' Central National Bank of New York, and a trustee of Columbia University
Living in Elyria, IL as of 1869