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| Everett Thayer | |
| Born | 1866, Briarmont |
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| Died | 1941, Briarmont |
| Worked for | Hartwell Timber Co., then the town's trust |
| Occupation | Mill superintendent, treasurer of the trust |
Everett Thayer, Lyman Thayer's son, was born in Briarmont in 1866 and grew up within sight of the mill. He became its superintendent in 1896, the year Elias Hartwell slowed the cutting and put the crews on shorter hours, so he spent his first years in charge running the saws at less than full speed.
In the company's last years, as output fell and the debts grew, Everett lent it money. By 1911 he was its largest creditor. His loans were secured on the mill and the works, so when Adelaide Hartwell sold them to settle the debts he was paid first. At the same sale he bought the timberlands.
He wanted the estate on the rise sold as well and said so at Town Hall year after year, against Adelaide, who would not sell it. When the town's trust was set up in 1918 to open the Institute, he became its first treasurer. He kept its books until he died in 1941. Adelaide sat on the same board the whole time, and the minutes record few votes on which the two of them agreed.
He lived in his father's house from boyhood on and left it to his son Prescott.