Cumberland County, Maine - Frederick M. Thayer
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Biography
Frederick M. Thayer
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 640-641


Frederick M. Thayer, a successful farmer of New Gloucester, was born in
Portland, Me., October 14, 1836, son of William and Sarah (Small) Thayer.
William Thayer was born in Oxford village, Oxford County, Me., and followed the
calling of farmer in that place up to the time of his marriage. He then removed
to Portland, and secured. a position in the grocery and shoe store of a Mr.
Shaw. In 1842 he went to Michigan, where it is supposed that he died. His wife,
Sarah, died in Portland, leaving one child, Frederick M.

Frederick M. Thayer was but six years old at the time that his father went to
Michigan. During the next two years he lived with his grandparents. He then
resided with Francis Small, of Raymond, Cumberland County, until he was twelve
years old. From that time until he attained his majority he was a member of the
family of Washington Jordan, of Raymond, Me. In his different homes he was
permitted the privilege of attending the district school. At the age of twenty-
one years he purchased Mr. Jordan's farm, and lived there during the following
year. He then came to New Gloucester, and established himself in a general
mercantile business, occupying a store near the Grand Trunk Railroad depot.
After carrying this on for a year and a half, he decided to return to the
occupation of an agriculturist, and purchased his present farm, which is located
near the village of New Gloucester. He has one hundred and fifty acres of land,
very much improved since he became the possessor. Besides carrying on general
farming, he keeps a number of choice cows, and is a regular shipper of milk to
the Portland Creamery.

On October 6, 1861, Mr. Thayer was united in marriage with Miss Harriet Frances
Grover, who was born in New Gloucester on St. Valentine's Day, 1841, daughter of
Josiah and Deborah (Haskell) Grover, both of whom are now dead. Her father
spent his life in agricultural pursuits. Mrs. Thayer has borne her husband three
children, namely: Cora Estella, born September 13, 1862, now the wife of
Leonard Berry, a grocer of Hyde Park, Mass; Helen Abbie, born August 27, 1864,
who married Charles B. Berry, one of the owners of the Portland creamery at
Portland; and Mabel, born July 25, 1867, who married Edward W. Perry, employed
in a pipe organ manufactory, Reading, Mass., where they now reside.

Mr. Thayer has always been a stanch advocate of Republican principles and a
faithful supporter of that party. In religious belief he is a Baptist, and he
and his wife are members of the church of that denomination in New Gloucester.