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Sherman Day Thacher, (November 6, 1861 - August 5, 1931), was the founder and headmaster of The Thacher School at Ojai, California.
Sherman Thacher’s education, from his high school years at Hopkins Grammar School to his college days at Yale, included strict academic schedules, classics taught by dedicated scholar-teachers, and seated meals in coat and tie.
May 31, 2011 · Sharp & Savvy: Sherman Day Thacher (1861 – 1931) by David Mason. Sherman D. Thacher. It was in 1888 that Sherman Thacher took up a homestead claim of 160 acres in the Ojai Valley. At first he thought he might teach as a side line which would furnish him some means of livelihood.
When Sherman Day Thacher was born on 6 November 1861, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Thomas Anthony Thacher, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Baldwin Sherman, was 38. He married Eliza Seeley Blake on 24 June 1896, in Berkeley, Alameda, California, United States.
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Sherman Day Thacher, (November 6, 1861 - August 5, 1931), was the founder and headmaster of The Thacher School at Ojai, California.
Sherman Day Thacher contacted educator Thompson Webb, an instructor at the Webb School of Bell Buckle in Tennessee (founded by his father, William R. Webb), that his school was turning down dozens of qualified students every year, and that an empty school near Claremont was for sale.
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Thacher was the son of Elizabeth Baldwin (Sherman) Thacher, granddaughter of Roger Sherman, and Thomas Anthony Thacher. The family had a history at Yale University. His mother's father, Roger Sherman, Jr., had obtained his bachelor's degree from Yale in 1787 and his father obtained his 1835.
