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  Thatcher M. Brown Jr
Thatcher Magoun Brown was born on June 28, 1908, in Plainfield, New Jersey, to Caroline Lord "Caro" Noyes, age 32, and Thatcher Magoun Brown, age 32. The census records show his family's home was on Highland Road.
He entered the investment banking field after he graduated from Yale University in 1930.
 He married Virginia Storm on September 28, 1933, in Manhattan, New York. They had three children during their marriage.
He was with the firm of Clark, Dodge & Co. for 11 years until 1941, when he became a partner in G.H.
Walker & Co.
Thatcher served in the Red Cross during World War II. He was stationed in Paris as executive director of Rainbow Corner, the Red Cross, service for American servicemen and women.
After the war, Thatcher continued on with Walker when the firm merged with White, Weld & Co. He was a member and former treasurer of the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and on the board of trustees of the social service organization Union Settlement House, the New York Bank For Savings and Mercantile and General Reinsurance Co. of America.
 Thatcher was in charge of the Settlement House's summer camping project. During the mid-1960s, he headed the fund drive for the Community Service Society of New York, a family social service agency. He had been a partner with Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. since 1978.
Locally, Thatcher was a former member of the Rye Country Day School board and former trustee of the Miriam Osborn Memorial Home in Rye. He was also a member of the home's finance committee.
Thatcher was an elder and trustee of the Rye Presbyterian Church. He was a member of the Apawamis Club in Rye and Links Club and Downtown Association in Manhattan. Thatcher had lived in Rye more than 50 years, most recently on Highland Road.
Thatcher M. Brown Jr. of Rye, a supporter of several social service organizations, died Saturday, June 4, 1983, at United Hospital in Port Chester. He was an associate in the banking concern of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company in New York City. He was 74 years old and lived in Rye, N.Y.
He first wife, Virginia Storm Brown, died in 1949 and his second wife, Marian Batcheller Brown, died in 1974.
At the time of his death, he was survived by two sons, Thatcher M.
Brown III of Manhattan and Frederick S. Brown of Brunswick, Maine; two daughters, Mary B. Jackson of Orleans, Mass., and Marion B. Price of Charles Town, W. Va.; one brother, Dr.
Daniel N. Brown of Bedford; and 13 grandchildren..
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