Alexander Montgomery Thackara (1848–1937), addressed as "Mont" in family correspondence,[1] was born in Philadelphia in 1848.

[4] Thackara left the service in 1881 to enter his father's business in Philadelphia.

He "was appointed by President William McKinley to serve as a U.S. Consul at Le Havre, France in 1897.

Eleanor played a leading role in the Red Cross in Paris during the First World War.

She died in Paris in 1915 and Alexander M. Thackara died in 1937 from bronchial pneumonia in the American Hospital of Paris, located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, where he had lived for several years after his retirement.