Person:David Maynard (4)

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David Swinson Maynard
b.22 Mar 1808 Castleton, Rutland, Vermont, United States
d.13 Mar 1873 Seattle, King, Washington, United States
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  • H.  David Swinson Maynard1808 - 1873
  • W.  Lydia Rickey1807 - 1879
m. 1828
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Name David Swinson Maynard
Gender Male
Birth[1] 22 Mar 1808 Castleton, Rutland, Vermont, United States
Marriage 1828 to Lydia Rickey
Death[1] 13 Mar 1873 Seattle, King, Washington, United States
Burial[1] Lake View Cemetery


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David Swinson "Doc" Maynard (March 22, 1808March 13, 1873) was an American pioneer, doctor, and businessman. He was one of Seattle's primary founders. He was an effective civic booster and, compared to other white settlers, a relative advocate of Native American rights. His friendship with Chief Seattle was important in the formation of the city of Seattle, and it was he who proposed the city be named for this important chief. Maynard was Seattle's first doctor, merchant prince, second lawyer, Sub-Indian Agent, Justice of the Peace, and architect of the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855.

"Doc" Maynard grew up, studied to be a doctor, and married in Vermont, before moving to the new town of Cleveland in 1832. In 1850, he left his estranged wife Lydia in Ohio and joined a wagon train to California. He ended up in the Puget Sound after joining a wagon train in need of a doctor. He ultimately settled on a large tract of land that is now Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood. He was one of the town's earliest boosters, attracting settlers, setting up the first brothel, negotiating relations with the Indians, and supporting the creation of the Washington Territory. His personal life is (still) a notorious scandal, as he divorced his first wife by persuading the (then-Oregon) legislature to grant him a divorce, without notice or support to his first wife, and then promptly married a woman he met on the wagon train. But his first wife turned up in Seattle in a suit over her rights to the claim--reportedly staying in his house during the trial--but ultimately both wives' claims were disallowed and reverted to public lands.[6]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gravestone, in Find A Grave
    David Swinson Maynard.
  2.   Lorain, Ohio, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    David Maynard 43 VT, physician; Lydia A. 45 VT; Henry 19; Frances 12 (Carlisle, p. 448A, 9/9/1850)

  3.   King, Washington, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    D.S. Maynard 52 VT, Physician, $2500 RE, $2000 PE, C.T 41 KY (Seattle, p. 278, 8/8/1860)

  4.   King, Washington, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule.

    D.S. Maynard 62 VT, physician, $3000 RE, 600 PE; Catherine T. 52 KY (Seattle, p. 104B, 6/16/1870)

  5.   David Swinson Maynard, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  6. ↑ Extracted from Wikipedia and HistoryLink; see also Maynard v. Hill, 125 U.S. 190 (1888).
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Founders of Seattle, Washington
The founding of Seattle is usually dated from the arrival of the Denny Party on November 13, 1851, at Alki Point. The group had travelled overland from the Midwest to Portland, Oregon, then made a short ocean journey up the Pacific coast into Puget Sound, with the express intent of founding a town. The next April, Arthur A. Denny abandoned the original site at Alki in favor of a better-protected site on Elliott Bay, near the south end of what is now downtown Seattle. Around the same time, Doc Maynard began settling the land immediately south of Denny's. The first plats in Seattle were filed May 28, 1853, and Seattle was incorporated as a town in 1867, by which time it had 350 inhabitants. Credit:Wikipedia, "History of Seattle before 1900"
Denny Party: Arthur A. Denny, his wife Mary, and children; David T. Denny; Carson D. Boren, his wife Mary, their daughter, and Carson's younger sister Louisa; William N. Bell, his wife Sarah, and children; John Low, his wife Lydia, and children; Lee Terry; Charles Terry.
Additional Settlers by 1852: Dr. David S. "Doc" Maynard (1808-1873); Henry Yesler (1810-1892); Luther Collins (1813-1860), Henry Van Asselt, and Jacob and Samuel Maple.
Current Location: King County, Washington  
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