and had a home in Newport, Rhode Island. Together, Nathaniel and Cornelia were the parents of: Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer (1881–1960), who married Danish Count Carl Moltke (1869–1935), the Danish Ambassador to the United States, in 1907. Anna Morton Thayer (1883–1953), who married William Samuel Patten (1873–1927) in June 1904. After his death, she married Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies (1872–1936) in 1930. Sarah Barroll Thayer (1885–1938), who was known as "the prettiest girl in Boston," was married Frederic Bayard Winthrop (1868–1932), the son of banker Robert Winthrop in 1911. After his first wife's death in 1885, he remarried to Pauline Revere (1862–1934), the daughter of Paul Joseph Revere (a Brig. Gen. who died during the Battle of Gettysburg and was the grandson and namesake of Revolutionary War patriot Paul Revere), on June 11, 1887. Pauline was a member of the Republican National Committee in 1924, "and was looked upon as advisor and confidante of both Presidents Coolidge and Hoover." In Boston, Thayer was a member of the Somerset Club, the Country Club, the Tennis and Racquet Club, the New Riding Club, the Eastern Yacht Club, the Algonquin Club, the Exchange Club, the St. Botolph Club, and in New York City, he was a member of the Knickerbocker Club, the Union Club of the City of New York, the Midday Club, the Turf and Field Club and the New York Yacht Club. In 1897 Nathaniel Thayer III inherited a mansion from his mother Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer. In 1902, with his expanding fortune, he decided to increase the size of the home on Main street in Lancaster, MA to a 42 room home. He hired architect Ogden Codman Jr. to design, enlarge and remodel the mansion. Codman had made quite a name for himself in Newport and New York as a “top-notch interior designer”. He added two new wings to The Homestead which “has virtually been unchanged since 1902” Thayer died at his home, 22 Fairfield Street in Boston (in the Back Bay neighborhood), on March 21, 1911, after suffering from a "general nervous breakdown." His widow died in 1934. Descendants Through his eldest daughter, he was the maternal grandfather of Count Carl Adam Moltke (1908–1989), a member of the Danish underground in World War II, who married Mabel Wilson Wright (née Comstock) in 1944 (1909–1988). They divorced in 1956 and later that same year, he married Doris Eccles (1914-1965), the