Graydon G. Maynard was a Minnesota veteran of the Civil War. Graydon was born in abt. 1836, in New York. Graydon was the son of Judge Arba K. Maynard and Minerva Gates. [NOTES: Arba K. Maynard, Esquire, was the son of MOSES MAYNARD and his first wife, ANNA LINCOLN; 2nd wife of Moses Maynard was Chloe Butler. Minerva Gates was the daughter of NEWMAN GATES and unknown wife].
These Maynards are the direct descendants of John Maynard, of Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Graydon G. Maynard was married twice:
MARRIAGE # 1: Phebe A. Bard. (Graydon and Phebe had one daughter: Ella M. Maynard born 1860, died AFTER 1910).
MARRIAGE # 2: Mary Jane Deming. Graydon and Mary had one son, Arba Deming Maynard, who died in Atwater, Minnesota, at the age of ten months).

MAYNARD, MINNESOTA was named in honor of Graydon G. Maynard. (SEE: Related information, attached below).

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HISTORICAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE GENESIS OF MAYNARD, MINNESOTA:


STORY # 1:
The Namesake of ''Maynard, Minnesota.''

Excerpt from: Booklet commemorating the "100th Anniversary of Orion Masonic Lodge No. 138, Atwater, Minnesota." April 19, 1980.
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Graydon G. Maynard - (born in New York - 1838).
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Located in the small village of Elysian,
[Le Sueur County], Minnesota where he listed his occupation as ''Merchant'' in petitioning for membership in Sakatah Lodge No. 32 Waterville, Minnesota. Here he became a Master Mason April 9, 1870. His wife was Mary J. Deming, younger sister of George [C.] Deming. Their sister Francis Deming was the wife of J.M. Spicer [John Mason Spicer*], for whom the village of Spicer was named. This relationship may account for the Maynards locating in Atwater. Their only child Arba Deming Maynard died here May 9, 1878, the year that Graydon signed as the tenth petitioner for Orion's charter. Six months later, Nov. 18, 1878 and only 26 days before the approval for the lodge under dispensation was granted, Graydon Maynard died and his name was never entered in the Register as a charter member. The Maynard monument close to that of the Demings in the Atwater Union Cemetery, bears a fine Masonic emblem in stone, facing the east.
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* NOTE: John Mason Spicer named the town of MAYNARD, MINNESOTA in honor of his brother-in-law, Graydon G. Maynard.
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STORY # 2:

MAYNARD, MINNESOTA (Zipcode: 56260)

• Question:
For whom was the community of ''Maynard, Minnesota'' named?

• Answer:
GRAYDON G. MAYNARD (husband of Mary J. DEMING Maynard).
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The following brief passage is excerpted from the book entitled, "History of Chippewa and Lac Qui Parle Counties Minnesota" by Moyer and Dale, Vol. 1 printed in 1916:
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......"The thriving and progressive village of Maynard, the commercial and shipping center for the people of Stoneham township, came into being at the time the Great Northern railroad pushed along through Chippewa county about 1887, the town being laid out by J. M. Spicer [John Mason Spicer], the head of that road, who established townsites along the way. He bought from Bailey and Ruddick, non-residents, each of whom owned an "eighty" of railroad land at the site selected, platted the same and named the place Maynard, in honor of his sister's [correction: sister-in-law's] husband, a man by the name of Maynard."....
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NOTE: The Namesake of MAYNARD, MINNESOTA:
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John Mason Spicer was married to Eliza Frances Deming (daughter of George and Isabella Deming). Eliza's younger sister, Mary J. Deming, married Graydon G. Maynard. John Spicer named the village of MAYNARD, MINNESOTA in honor of his brother-in-law and associate, Graydon G. Maynard. [NOTE: Graydon was the son of Arba K. Maynard and Minerva Gates].
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