No. 54-40
Of The
Ancient and Honorable Order of
E Clampus Vitus
Seattle, Washington Territory
or
What indignities probably will be goin' on this year
Updated 5/3/6013
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Doc Maynard
Chapter No. 54-40 Of The Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus Seattle, Washington Territory |
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David S. "Doc" Maynard (1808-1873)
was a
colorful and
influential figure in King County, Washington's early history.
Historian
Bill Speidel annointed him "The Man Who Invented Seattle." On the
advice
of Chief Seattle, Maynard settled in the tiny village of Duwamps
(Seattle’s original name) in the spring of 1852 and served as its first
physician, merchant, postmaster, Indian agent, and justice of the peace.
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February 13, 1873 and is
buried in the Lakeview Cemetary, Seattle,
WA. One of his fellow citizens, speaking at the service, said, "Without him, Seattle will not be the same. Without him, Seattle would not have been the same. Indeed, without him, Seattle might not be." Murray Morgan, in his book, Skid Road, writes that David S. Maynard: "... purchased his goods at half price, (and) sold them at half the price asked by other merchants. If he was feeling particularly good -- and alcohol often made him feel particularly good -- he was inclined to give his customers presents: he offered unlimited credit. Maynard was popular with the townsfolk but not with other merchants .. Beriah Brown, editor of the Puget Sound Dispatch, called David Maynard "the father of the town ofSeattle." Brown went on to say: "The personal character of the deceased is best known to those who have been his intimate associates for the last 20 years, and they, without exception, concur in ascribing to him the following characteristics: He was generous to improvidence, and charitable to a fault, scattering his bounties and his charities with an indiscriminate hand, and with slight regard to the worthiness of the object. He loved his fellow men with a love which seemed entirely free from selfish considerations; shared his substance and contributed his care and professional skill to any and all who seemed to require them, regardless of merits or faults of any, and if he had an enemy on earth he never appeared to recognize the fact by an unkind word or act of retaliation. As might reasonably be expected of such a character, he sacrificed all his abundant opportunities of accumulating wealth, to the weakness of an uncalculating generosity and he died poor." The faults of our deceased friend and brother, were those most common with social and generous natures, and will be buried with his mortal remains, while his many acts of disinterested charity and noble generosity will sanctify his memory in many a now aching heart" (Puget Sound Dispatch). |
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Catherine
Maynard "She Did What She Could" |
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Some Robert Service poetry...
Doc's Offishul Watering Holes
(Click Heer)
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The
Pig War 608 First Avenue (Pioneer Square) Seattle, WA 98104 Historylink.org
Buzzard BBQ Seattle Museum of History and Industry Klondike
Gold Rush
National Historic Park Grave
Sites of the Pacific Northwest Tacoma Public Library, Northwest Room Maynard, Dr. David Swinson (1808-1873) CHIEF SEATTLE'S 1854 ORATION" - ver . 1 1857
Census: King County Population By Washington State History Museum Hurlothrumbo.org |
Seattle/Tacoma/Puget Sound Area: Sons of the Profits William C. Speidel ISBN 0-914890-02-6 Skid Road Puget's Sound David Buerge ISBN 0-939806-06-1 Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
Alaska/Klondike Gold Rush: White Pass Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold
Rush Other: The Last Days of the Late,
Great State of California |
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