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James Kingsley Thacher (S&B 1868)

Medicine. Yale University. Skull and Bones.

He was also an independent scientific investigator of distinguished merit.[4]

His best known piece of work was published in 1877, and involved a criticism of Huxley and Gegenbaur on vertebrate evolution, which attracted attention both in England and Germany. [4]

He also published other researches of value, but thedemands of his practice and of the Medical School interferedseriously with the time at command for original work.[4]

1887 to 1891 - Professor, Clinical Medicine, Yale Med School.[4]

1879 to 1891 - Professor, Physiology, Yale Med School.[4]

10 Sept 1878, married Emily Baldwin Foster, eldest daughter of Hon. Dwight Foster (S&B 1848)

1868 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 20 Apr 1891, from Pneumonia. Age 43

Note: Mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Yale College President Jeremiah Day.

Half-brother of Sherman Day Thacher (S&B 1883)

Thomas Anthony Thacher (S&B 1835) - father of Sherman Day Thacher (S&B 1883) Thomas Thacher (S&B 1871) - half-brother of Sherman Day Thacher (S&B 1883) John Seymour Thacher (S&B 1877) - half-brother of Sherman Day Thacher (S&B 1883) William Lamed Thacher (S&B 1887) - brother of Sherman Day Thacher (S&B 1883) Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) - nephew of Sherman Day Thacher (S&B 1883) Rep. William Kent (S&B 1887) - brother-in-law of Sherman Day Thacher (S&B 1883)

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[3] - Skull and Bones Membership List by David Luhrssen

[4] - Yale Obituary - 1890/91 - Page 52 / On the Page 53.

[5] - Wiki - James Kinglsey Thacher (S&B 1868)