sentences:  John B. Thayer
  
  John Borland Thayer II (April 21, 1862April 15, 1912) was an American businessman who had a thirty-year career as an executive with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.He was a director and second vice-president of the company when he died less than a week before his 50th birthday in the sinking of the RMS "Titanic", on April 15, 1912.