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Thayer (ELI an American educator born)

ELI, an American educator; born in Mendon, Mass., June 11, 1819; was graduated at Brown University in 1845, and soon afterward became principal of the Worcester Academy. He founded the Oread Institute, a school for girls, in Worcester, Mass., in 1848; served for several years as a member of the THAYER proposed a plan for the military colonization of Florida as a war measure. Sub sequently he urged his colonization scheme as a remedy for polygamy in Utah; wrote and published several books; and invented a hydraulic elevator, a safety steam boiler, and an automatic boiler cleaner. He died in Worcester, Mass., April 15, 1899.