THATCHER, OLIVER JOSEPH

(1857), an American historian; 6. in Wilmington, Ohio, and graduated from Wilmington College in 1878. Has been instructor at various colleges. Author of 1 Sketch of the History of the Apos to lie Church, 1894; Europe in the Middle Ages, 1896 (with F. Schwill); A Short History of Mediaeval Europe, 1897; A General History of Europe, 350-1900 (with F. Schwill) 1900; Europe in the Middle Age, 1920 (with E. H. McNeal). town, Tena erim division, Lower Burma; was capital of the Talaing kingdom. Pop. 15,500. (district) c. 350,000. (1835-1894), American poet; 6. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, d. on the island of Apple dore, Isles of Shoals. Her poetry is mostly descriptive of the sea and of the coast of New England. Publications Poems, 1872; Poems, 1874; Drift Weed, 1879; Poems for Children, 1884; Idylls and Pastimes, 1886. A collected edition of her Poems was published in 1896. Prose works An Island Garden, 1894 and Letters, 1895.