House of Nathaniel Thayer, Fairfield Street, Boston, MA, 1888, Sturgis and Brigham

House of Nathaniel Thayer, Fairfield Street, Boston, MA Sturgis and Brigham, architect(s). From the American Architect and Building News, June 30, 1888. 12 by 16.25 inches (with border). VG+. THAYER, Nathaniel, clergyman, born in Hampton, New Hampshire, 11 July, 1769, died in Rochester, New York, 23 June, 1840. His father, Reverend Ebenezer Thayer, was pastor in Hampton for many years. The son was graduated at Harvard in 1789, studied theology, and became a pastor at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania In 1795 he was installed over the Unitarian society at Lancaster, Massachusetts, where he remained for nearly fifty years. He received the degree of D. D. from Harvard in 1817. On account of Dr. Thayer's tact and sagacity he was, perhaps more than any other man of his day, selected for the settlement of ecclesiasticail difficulties, and he frequently drew up the decisions of church councils, He died while on a journey for the benefit of his health. He published twenty-three occasional sermons in 1