Ebby thatcher biography of nancy

ALBANY COUNTY — The best known Thacher family legacy sits atop the distinctive Helderberg Escarpment in New Scotland.

Thousands of people visit the John Boyd Thacher Park every year to enjoy the view, hike the trails or just have a picnic.

Three Thachers were mayors of Albany: George Thacher, his grandson John Boyd Thacher, the park’s namesake, and his nephew, John Boyd Thacher II.

Then there was Ebby, as he was known, or, more properly, Edwin Throckmorton Thacher.

He was John Boyd Thacher II’s brother.

Ebby Thacher was born in 1896, and wasted no time becoming the family’s black sheep. The man just could not stay sober, according to historical accounts, and spent his entire life in an endless cycle of drying out and soaking in a bottle, only to repeat the cycle again and again.

With the help of what was known as the Oxford Group, Thacher did get a stretch of sobriety based that organization’s fundamental formula for living: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love.

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