John H. Thacher Papers. 1918 - 1988. Subject Files

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John H. Thacher Papers. 1918 - 1988. Subject Files

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SNAC Resource ID: 6428922

Harry S. Truman Library

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Thacher, Nicholas G. (Nicholas Gilman), 1915-2002

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Thacher, John H., 1873-1960

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John H. Thacher was born in 1873 in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a B.A. in 1895 from Princeton University. He married Edith Gilman in 1906, and had the following children: John (1908), Edith (1910), and Nicholas (1915.) In 1912, he joined the Missouri National Guard, and on October 6, 1915 he was commissioned a Captain in the Missouri National Guard, 1st Missouri Field Artillery Battalion. On June 19, 1916, he was ordered to active duty, and from July 4 to December 15, 1916, he served on t...