13th Vermont Infantry
Biography
Biography
John Marshall Thatcher
Prior to enlistment was assistant principal of Barre Academy. After serving his term he returned and acted in the same capacity for a time when he obtained a position in the Patent Office, Washington, D.C., from there he went to Chicago, and formed a partnership with Captain Coburn of Company C, as patent lawyers, and amassed quite a fortune. He died several years ago (about 1908).
University of Vermont Class of 1859, member of Delta Psi fraternity
Source: Ralph Orson Sturtevant, historian, Pictorial History, Thirteenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, War of 1861-1865, (privately published, c1910), p. 672.
