Franklin Forbes and Martha Ann Stearns (née Cushing) Forbes, in Clinton, Massachusetts. After the marriage, they settled at the family farm at Lancaster. Together, John and Evelyn were the parents of: John Eliot Thayer Jr. (1887–1966), a delegate to 1928 Republican National Convention from Massachusetts who married Katherine Lee Bayard Warren, a daughter of Samuel Dennis Warren. Evelyn Thayer (1888–1980), who married Isaac Tucker Burr (1885–1972) Nora Forbes Thayer (1889–1988), who married Francis Abbot Goodhue Jr. Natalie Thayer (1894–1975), who married Lawrence Hemenway (1891–1966). Duncan Forbes Thayer (1900–1957), who married Priscilla Pinkney McHenry (1906–1975). After his death, she married Charles Winslow Farnsworth in 1963. Thayer died on July 29, 1933 in Lancaster and was buried at Old Settlers Burial Yard there. References External links 1862 births 1949 deaths American ornithologists American people of Dutch descent John Thayer John Thayer Harvard University alumni John Thayer John Thayer