Thacher
JOHN BOYD, an American reformer; born in Ballston, N. Y., Sept. 11, 1847; was graduated at Williams College in 1869; member of the New York Senate in 1884-1885, when he introduced the measures which resulted in the tenement house reforms; mayor of Albany, N. Y., in 1886-1887, 1896-1897; and chairman of the Bureau of Awards at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. He was the author of several books, including: "The Continent THACHER of America, Its Discovery and Its Baptism"; "The Cabotian Discovery"; etc. He died Feb. 25, 1909.