When Eli Thayer was born on 8 October 1857, in India, his father, Joseph Buckhorn Thayer, was 51 and his mother, Mary Wallace, was 38. He died on 8 November 1857, in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, at the age of 0.
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English (Gloucestershire and Somerset): from Middle English the eir ‘the heir’ with fused definite article. See Ayer .
History: Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), military engineer, an early superintendant of the US Military Academy at West Point, was born in Braintree, MA, into a family of English origin.
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