John Thayer (cricketer)
John Borland Thayer, Jr. ( * April 21, 1862 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, † April 15, 1912 in the North Atlantic ) was an American first-class cricket player and later became vice president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Life
John B. Thayer, Jr. came in 1862 in Philadelphia as the second of six children of John Borland Thayer, Sr. ( 1836-1904 ) and his wife Mary Randolph Chapman ( 1839-1919 ) to the world. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was captain of the 1879 baseball team. He came from a family that was closely associated with the game of Cricket ( his three brothers also played professional cricket) and played at the age of 14 years, his first match for the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pennsylvania. As part of Philadelphia's cricket team in 1884, he went to England tour. During this tour, he scored 817 runs and 22 wickets managed.
Seven races of his sporting career are now being recognized as first-class cricket. They all took place in German Town in the German Town Cricket Club. His highest score, he scored in a game in October 1883. During his youth he was for several years as Philadelphia's best cricket players.
After finishing his sports career Thayer was a businessman and was as a Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On November 9, 1893, he married Marian Longstreth Morris ( 1872-1944 ), daughter of Frederick Wistar Morris and Elizabeth Flower Paul. She came as he made a long-established, wealthy family of Philadelphia, the so-called Old Money. They had four children: John Borland "Jack" III (1894-1945), Frederick Morris (1896-1956), Margaret " Peggy " (1898-1960) and Pauline ( 1901-1981 ). Peggy married the later Secretary of the Department of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott.
In April 1912 Thayer was with his wife and his eldest son Jack guest at the American Consul General in Berlin, Alexander M. Thackara. To return to the U.S., the family went, accompanied by Marian Thayer's maid Margaret Fleming as passengers on 10 April 1912 in Cherbourg on board the RMS Titanic, for Cherbourg the first stop on her maiden voyage to New York was. Thayer wanted to celebrate his upcoming 50th birthday at home. The couple lived in Thayer, the first - class cabin C -68 and Jack Thayer neighboring cabin C -70. On the evening of April 14, John and Marian Thayer attended a dinner given by George Widener in honor of Captain Edward Smith in the à la carte restaurant on the B- deck. After the collision with the iceberg later that evening Jack Thayer went on deck to be the "fun " a look. He came back immediately and informed his parents.
The chief designer of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews, Thayer informed personally that he no longer gave the ship than one hours. Thayer brought his wife to the lifeboat No. 4 on the starboard side. Since there only women and children were embarking, Thayer and his son by her adopted. In the crowd on deck, father and son quickly lost sight of. Marian Thayer and Margaret Fleming survived in Boat No. 4 and Jack Thayer survived by jumping from the boat deck and was pulled into a lifeboat. John Thayer made according to witnesses no move to leave the ship. He came in the fall dead. His body was never found. Marian Thayer not sued after the White Star Line, but due to the death of her husband, but because of the loss of their luggage.