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    David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard: Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850
    David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard: Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850
    David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard: Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850
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    David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard: Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850

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    David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard, Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850 is a biography of the founders of Seattle, Oregon.

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    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781537810980
    David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard: Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850

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      David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard - Thomas W. Prosch

      DAVID S. MAYNARD AND CATHERINE T. MAYNARD

      ..................

      Biographies of Two of the Oregon Immigrants of 1850

      Thomas W. Prosch

      LACONIA PUBLISHERS

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      Copyright © 2016 by Thomas W. Prosch

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      DAVID SWINSON MAYNARD.: His Birth, Ancestry, Education.

      His Marriage and Life in, Ohio.

      Interesting Narrative of a Long and Perilous Journey.

      Slow and Difficult Trips to South and North.

      A Cargo of Cordwood; the First Convention.

      In California in 1851.

      Returns to Puget Sound.

      Locates on Duwamish Bay.

      Fish, Lumber, Land and Taxes.

      New People; Monticello Convention; Divorces; King County.

      Marriages; Yesler’s Mill; First Burial Ground.

      Platting and Naming the Town; Selling and Giving Away Lots.

      Seattle’s First Courts and Their Business.

      The Treaty of Point Elliott.

      The War of 1855-56; Maynard an Indian Agent.

      Dr. Maynard Becomes a Farmer; Events of 1859-’60.

      Return to Seattle; Business Efforts, Social Matters, etc.

      Strives to Get Land Title; Loses Half of Donation Claim.

      Death Claims and Removes the Pioneer.

      Characteristics and Anecdotes of Maynard.

      CATHERINE TROUTMAN MAYNARD: Born and Reared in Kentucky; Married in Illinois.

      Migrate to Oregon; Cholera and Death on the Plains.

      Life in a Primitive but Ambitious Town.

      Romance and Marriage; Unfortunate Opposition.

      Mrs. Maynard at Home in Seattle.

      War; Life Among the Indians; Act of Heroism; Stories of Savages.

      At Alki Point; in Town Again; Widowed; Free Reading Room.

      Rounding Out a Long, Interesting and Useful Life.

      Postscript—November, 1906.

      DAVID S. MAYNARD

      AND

      CATHERINE T. MAYNARD

      AND THEIR USES

      BIOGRAPHIES

      OF TWO OF THE OREGON

      IMMIGRANTS OF 1850

      THEIR BIRTHS—EVENTS OF THEIR EARLIER YEARS IN VERMONT, OHIO KENTUCKY AND ILLINOIS—DIARY NARRATIVE of JOURNEY ACROSS the CONTINENT—WITNESSES OF AND PARTICIPANTS IN THE BEGINNINGS OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY—RESIDENCE AT OLYMPIA—THEIR MARRIAGE—REMOVAL TO SEATTLE—FOUNDING AND NAMING A CITY—ITS DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH—LOTS NOW WORTH $40,000, $60,000 AND $80,000 SOLD FOR $5, $10 AND $20—A PHYSICIAN, A MERCHANT A FISHERMAN, A TEAMSTER, A BLACKSMITH A FARMER, A LAWYER, A JUDGE, A TOWN BUILDER, ALL IN ONE—COURT EXPERIENCES IN 1853-’54-’55-’56—WAR WITH THE INDIANS—LIFE AMONG the SAVAGES—the GUARDIANSHIP AND HELP OF A FRIENDLY CHIEF—A DANGEROUS CANOE TRIP—A HOME ON THE FARM—LOSS OF A DONATION LAND CLAIM—DEATH OF DR. MAYNARD—HIS CHARACTERISTICS—A WIDOW SINCE 1873—HISTORIC PIONEER FIGURE.

      BY

      THOMAS W. PROSCH,

      SEATTLE, 1906

      DAVID SWINSON MAYNARD.

      ..................

      HIS BIRTH, ANCESTRY, EDUCATION.

      MARCH 22D, 1808, A CHILD was born at or near the town of Castleton, Rutland County, in the State of Vermont, to whom was given the name David Swinson Maynard, the middle name being the family name on the side of his mother. The Maynards and the Swinsons were of strong American stock. The two families had long been acquainted, having lived in the same neighborhood, fought in the same wars, educated and reared their children together, intermarried, and otherwise associated in the many ways incident to the life and times of the eighteenth century, first in the British Province and later in the young American possession and State in which their lots had been cast. It is related that one of the young Maynards and one of the young Swinsons, both of whom became progenitors of the boy referred to in the opening sentence, were impressed on a British ship, commanded by Capt. Burgoyne, at the outbreak of the Revolutionary war. When they signified their desire to go on shore they were forcibly detained, and were told that King George needed their services, and intended to have them, in putting down the rebellion recently inaugurated by their countrymen in Massachusetts and other Colonies. Swinson and Maynard counselled together, and at length succeeded in leaving the ship in the darkness, with nothing but their underclothing, barefooted, getting on land wet, cold and all but exhausted. A Scotch woman, who could talk Gaelic only, befriended them, and with her help they were enabled to reach the camp of General Washington, where both enlisted in the Continental army, in which they remained to the end of the long struggle then in the days of its beginning.

      David S. Maynard had three sisters. All were educated as well as the schools of the day permitted. With the sisters, however, this memoir has no more to do. When his course in the schools had been completed, young Maynard began the study of medicine. Dr. Woodward was his instructor, the boy serving in the doctor’s office and giving general help while acquiring the information needed for the practise of his chosen profession. Upon completing his time and course the young physician was given a diploma, and for forty-four years following was in more or less active practice. Presumably his services were not much sought or richly compensated in the community where he had been reared, for he soon after moved west, settling in Lorain County, Ohio, and doing business in and near Cleveland, then a place of four or five thousand inhabitants, now a city with one hundred times as many.

      HIS MARRIAGE AND LIFE IN, OHIO.

      Before going to Ohio, tho, the student and doctor had adventures and troubles such as usually fall to the lot of active, promising young men. In his first love affair there was a misunderstanding and a failure. The young lady is said to have been most winning and lovable. In nowise discouraged, Maynard promptly paid court to another girl, and in 1828, on the 28th of August, at twenty years of age, he and Lydia A. Rickey were married. Shortly afterwards they left Vermont for the place on Lake Erie that has since become the seventh city in population in the United States. At the new home, a few miles west of Cleveland, two children were born to them—a son, Henry C, and a daughter, Frances J., who subsequently became Mrs. Patterson, and is still living.

      There the couple dwelt more than a score of years. He was energetic, and he made efforts and investments in various directions. Of these the most notable was the establishment of a medical school, in which at one time were one hundred and fifty students. With him in this enterprise were Doctors Mauzey and Ackley. Beginning about that time and extending up to the period of civil war, there was much trouble with the currency, and in 1837 occurred a great financial crash and crisis, in which the business of the nation was rent and broken as never before, the effects upon the people being direful indeed. The banks were nearly all closed, few ever again being reopened, and the banks that succeeded them for twenty years had smaller deposits than had the banks that had failed in 1837. And this while Ohio was rapidly increasing in population. The resultant loss of confidence, the lack of money and the bad trade conditions generally prevalent made it exceedingly difficult for men to carry on their commercial undertakings. Especially was this true of men like Maynard, who were free and open-handed, helpful of others, careless of the morrow, and who were heavily leaned upon by acquaintances in the support of their schemes. Maynard became responsible for another man to the extent of $30,000. The business failed, and in the wreck Maynard was financially ruined. It was impossible for him there to recover, and he began to look longingly towards California as the region of future hope and wealth. In 1849 there had been a great rush of men by water and land to the new region of gold. In this he had been unable to join, but he now resolved to be among those who would go the following year. In coming to this determination he was moved also by the disaffection of his wife, whose nagging and faultfinding had become well-nigh unendurable. He collected such moneys as he could, simplified his affairs, and fixed his wife and two now grown children as comfortably as possible, leaving everything to them but the merest pittance. He might have gone to California more easily and quickly by steamer, but it would have cost him about five hundred dollars, and he felt that he could not afford it either on his own account or that of his family. He believed that he could work his way across

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