Alex Thayer
Full name: Alexander Dallas Thayer
Nickname: Alex
Nickname: Alex
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| Bio | He was a sportsman and yachtsman. The son of Brig. Gen.Russell Thayer. Young Thayer was an outstanding athlete at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1910 and made a name for himself as an accomplished sportsman, something he continued into his adult life when at his marriage it was reported that he was still, "well-known in lawn tennis and cricket circles". in 1908, he was the men's doubles tennis national champion. During World War I he served as an aviation instructor first in Oklahoma and Michigan, and then France. In 1926, a "long romance" culminated in his marriage to Marjorie, daughter of Frederick G. Bourne, President of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. They lived at her 500-acre farm, Gwynllan, where he raised Guernsey cows for the dairy and she raised prize-winning German shepherd dogs at their kennels. They bought Fairbank Cottage on Jekyll Island and in 1931 bought a yacht, the Queen Anne, that was said to be one of the largest in the country. Marjorie died in 1962 and two years later (1964) Alec remarried her sister, Florence, before he himself died in 1968. |
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