Pauline Revere Thayer (1862–1934) worked to improve immigrant conditions in Massachusetts and the US; represented Massachusetts in Republican party activities; and founded the Chilton Club in Boston in 1910. Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1862 to Paul Joseph Revere, she was a direct descendant of Paul Revere, and in that capacity performed civic and honorary duties in his memory.Quincy, G.A.R. Post is 50 years old; Anniversary Exercises Wednesday Evening. Boston Daily Globe. June 1, 1919. p. E1.National Affairs: Dawesology. Time Magazine. Monday, April 27, 1925. She married businessman Nathaniel Thayer III in 1887.Nathaniel Thayer dead; Capitalist and Railroad Promoter Dies at His Home in Boston. The New York Times, March 22, 1911. p. 11.The Harvard graduates' magazine, v. 19. 1911. Throughout her life, she pursued charitable endeavors. In 1896 she was treasurer of the Committee of Women of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association, contributing to efforts benefitting American soldiers in the Spanish–American War.Edward C. Mansfield. Work of the Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association During the War with Spain, 1898. She also donated funds to the Massachusetts General Hospital. In 1910 she founded the private women's Chilton Club in Boston.Samuel Hornblower. Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs. The Harvard Crimson. April 27, 2000.
Around 1916, Woodrow Wilson appointed Thayer chairman of the Women's Committee of the Massachusetts Division, Council of National Defense.The Journal of home economics, v.11. American Home Economics Association, May 1919; p. 231. She was "looked upon as advisor and confidante" to Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover.Mrs. Thayer dead: Paul Revere's kin; For 50 Years She Led in Social and Political Activities of Massachusetts; Was capitalist's widow; Honored by Three Presidents, She Was Noted for Her Many Philanthropies. The New York Times. September 30, 1934. p. 35. From ca.1921 through ca.1931, she was head of Immigration and Americanization in the Massachusetts Department of Education.Patterson's American educational directory, v. 28. 1931. Around 1929 she was appointed "vice-chairman of Governor Frank G. Allen's Committee on Unemployment. In 1921 she was part of a national committee appointed by Immigration Commissioner Walter W. Husband to review policy related to welfare of immigrants.Board to aid immigrants; Husband Appoints Four to Help Form Welfare Policy. The New York Times. June 25, 1921; p. 10.Edward Hale Bierstadt. Aspects of Americanization. Cincinnati, Stewart Kidd Co., 1921. Thayer represented Massachusetts as a delegate in the 1924 Republican National ConventionPaul Revere descendant Massachusetts delegate. Boston Daily Globe. June 13, 1924. p. 31. and the 1928 Republican National Committee, with Louis K. Liggett.Dr. Work favored as Hoover manager;... The New National Committee. The New York Times. June 16, 1928. p. 5. She died on September 29, 1934, in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
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Urge registering nurse attendants; Many Advocate Bill Before Health Committee; Heads of State Hospitals Are Heard in Opposition. Boston Daily Globe. January 16, 1924. p. 13.
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