When Monroe C Thayer was born in October 1849, in Massachusetts, United States, his father, Zebadiah Adams Thayer, was 32 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Clapp, was 23. He died on 6 September 1851, in Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 1.
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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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