| Name |
Winnifred Kate Maybee |
| Birth |
20 Mar 1874 |
Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, New York  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
1 Jun 1875 |
Liberty Township, Sullivan County, New York [2] |
- James F Maybee, 58, M,, Head, born in Delaware County, Married, Farm Laborer
Hannah Maybee, 45, F, Wife, born in Greene County, Married
Jacob M Maybee, 24, M, Son, born in Delaware County, Single
Grace A Maybee, 18, F, Daughter, born in Sullivan County, Single
Kate W Maybee, 1, F, Daughter, born in Sullivan County, Single
Lived in a frame house worth $200
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| Census |
12 Jun 1880 |
Hancock, Delaware County, New York [3] |
- James Maybe, White, Male, 63, Head, Married, Farmer, born in New York, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Hannah Maybe, White, Female, 51, Wife, Married, House Keeping, born in New York, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Kate Maybe, White, Female, 6, Daughter, Single, born in New York, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
with 10 boarders
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| Witness-Obituary |
14 Mar 1913 |
Monticello, Sullivan County, New York [4] |
- "Mr Maybee dropped dead a few moments ago," was the message received at the Watchman,, office on Monday morning at half past eight o'clock.
The message was too true.
Mr. Maybee was up at his usual hour. The morning was delightful with sunshine and dozens of God's songsters sat in the trees beneath his windows, making glad music. "I love the sunshine and the birds," he said, as the sun came streaming into his window followed by the voice of the birds, but he had scarcely told his wife of that love before he fell into her arms dead. A treacherous heart had gone back, on him. Life was extinct in a moment.
The birds continued to sing, but their songs had lost their charm for the Maybee household.
Jacob Maginnes Maybee was born at Roxbury on the 23d of February, 1851. He was the son of James F. Maybee and Hannah Maginnes, farmers by occupation. When Mr. Maybee was two years old his parents moved to Sullivan county, where they continued to till the soil for a livelihood. His educational advantages were limited, though like many another successful man, he had other teachers than those of the classroom, and other instruction than that from prosy text books. He became so eager to handle the thought of men and revel in the beauties in which those thought were; clothed, that he traveled repeatedly to distant neighbors to beg the loan of the singing Burns or the preacher Milton.
This practice he followed until his family moved to Strongtown, and occupied what is now known as the MacDonald farm. Here it was that he formed the acquaintance of Maj. John Waller, the proprietor of the Republican, and in 1869, entered Mr. Waller's employ as local editor. A year later A. J. Bush took him into his office as a law student and in March, 18 72, he was admitted to the bar. He must have been just 21 years of age the month before his admission—21 years of work, of success, of air castles.
While a resident of Monticello he attracted the attention of Miss Flint, a teacher of the academy, who persuaded him to join the Ciceronian debating club, and it was in that society that Mr. Maybee first gained his knowledge of oratory. Miss Flint afterwards became a well known author and Mr. Maybee a well known speaker.
It was a hard road to success, but it was the same road that most stripplings of the law have to travel. He practiced in Grahamsville, Liberty and Rockland, teaching school between times. In 1884 he was located in Walden, Orange county, and edited a paper in connection with his profession. A little later he went to Nebraska and succeeded beyond his expectation. But family; matters drove him East and in the eighties he formed a partnership with Peter B. Akins, of Livingston Manor, and soon, worked up a lucrative practice.
In politics Mr. Maybee was both a Democrat and a. Republican—the change to the latter party taking place in 1896. He first came to public notice as clerk of the Board of Supervisors in 1872. In 1891 he was appointed Supervisor of the town of Rockland to fill vacancy, caused by the death of William Parks, who was kicked to death by his horse. In 1898 he was defeated for Special County Judge by Judge Fisk and in 1905 he was elected District Attorney, which office he administered With ability and without fear or favor. In 1894 be was made a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, having defeated the late Reuben R. Jelliff for the position.
The greatest political disappointment in his life was when he failed to receive the appointment of County Judge to fill the vacancy caused by the: death of Judge Roosa. Mr. Maybee had stumped the State the fall before for Gov. Hughes, and the Governor was so delighted with his work that he was eager to do something for him. Soon after Judge Roosa died Mr. Maybee was assured by the Governor that he could have the appointment. The County Committee refused to indorse him and the Governor failed to keep his pledge. It was a cruel awakening.
On October 22, 1903, he married Miss Annie Crandall, of Monticello, who was his third wife. His first Wife was Miss Louise Goldsmith, of Bethel, His last wife, a daughter, Mildred, of New York city, by his first wife, and one sister, Kate Maxwell, of Buffalo, are the surviving relatives.
The year he was elected District Attorney Mr. Maybee took up his residence in Monticello, and continued to live here until the day of. his death.
Mr. Maybee socially was a Mason, and under that ritual was buried Thursday afternoon from the Episcopal church, of which he was a member and an active vestryman. So well was he thought of by the church that Bishop Greer made him lay reader when Rev. Mr. Stecher was taken ill, and he officiated at several services.
If Mr. Maybee was anything1 he was literary. He understood the law and understood it well, but he understood literature better. He could present a case as logically and eloquently as any pleader at the bar, but he could present a brief on Shakespeare and Milton better. He could sum up a case with the finishing touches of an artist, but he could deliver an oration better.
As a lawyer he won some notable victories in the arena of legal strength ; as an orator he won the prolonged applaudits of the people from the rostrom. As a lawyer he cleared Brethauer, who was charged with shooting his father-in-law, John Townsend. He defended the town of Rockland in the Bridge Company suit and won. As an orator he spoke in campaign and at literary functions, and his orations were often; prose poem, as soft a»d sweet to the eoar as is honey dew to the rose of t he flower garden.
Last fall Mr. Maybee made sixty speeches in the Taft campaign. He came home broken in health and unfitted for service and died after an heroic struggle to live.
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| Anecdote |
12 Sep 1918 |
Hamburg, Erie County, New York [5] |
- George Hammond Maxwell of 159 Pleasant, Hamburg, Erie, NY, born3 Jun 1879, registered for the draft on 12 Sep 1918, at Hamburg, Erie, NY. He was a repairer for Roger Brown Iron Co, Buffalo. His nearest living relative was his wife, Winifred Maxwell at the above address. He was white, of medium height and build, with blue eyes and brown hair.
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| Reference Number |
28233 |
| Death |
1 Apr 1938 |
Buffalo, Erie County, New York [1] |
| Burial |
White Chapel Memorial Park, Amherst, Erie County, New York [6] |
| Person ID |
I28027 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1874 - 1938 (64 years)
