Stephen Henry Thayer

Stephen Henry Thayer (born 1839) was an American banker and poet, born at New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He attended Appleton Academy and, after moving to Tarrytown, New York, became a banker in New York City.

He published Songs of Sleepy Hollow (1886) and contributed verse and critical essays to the periodical press. Stedman included three of his poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.