Biography of JOHN H. MAYNARD of Manchester NH
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SOURCE: History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire 
Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1885
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page 135
JOHN H. MAYNARD
John H. Maynard, son of Asa and Mary (Linfield) Maynard, was born in
Concord, Mass., January 23, 1805. His father moved to Loudon, NH when
he was but five years of age, and remained here a few years and moved
to East Concord.
  The subject of this sketch attended the district school in winter and
worked at carpentering in summer; commenced to learn his trade, when
eleven years old, with Moses Kimball, of East Concord, with whom he
remained five years, or until the death of Mr. Kimball.
  He subsequently was in the mploy of John Putney, and, still later,
of John Leach, of Concord. He remained with Mr. Leach about four years,
then started out on his own account, and his career has been a
successful one.  He built Nathaniel Upham's house, now standing north
of the State House, and afterwards built the Baptist meeting house in
New Boston. He returned to Concord and built Call's Block, rear of the
State House. Was in Amoskeag about the year 1832, and built the old
tavern which is now a tenement block. He built the Unitarian meeting-
house in Concord, and then returned to Amoskeag and erected the first
tenement-house at Amoskeag Falls, on the east side of the river. This
was built for workmen who were to build the guard-gate for the Amoskeag
COmpany. From this time Mr. Maynard worked continuously for the 
Amoskeag Company for thirty years, during which time he did the 
carpenter work on No. 3, 4, 6 and 6 Mills and most of the large tenement
blocks.  Mr. Maynard married, for his first wife, Jane Kimball, of East
Concord, NH, March 23, 1832; they had no children. He lived with her
about thirty years. He married for his second wife, Apha Kimball, of
Hopkinton, NH about the year 1871. Mr. Maynard was chief of the old
Fire Department, and was connected with it for twenty-five years. He 
has been alderman and a member of the City COuncil, and has also been
a representative from Manchester three terms in the Legislature.
He was the first assessor in the city of Manchester. Mr. Maynard has
resided in Manchester since its infancy, and related that he planted
beans and corn in fron tof where the Stark BLock now stands, on Elm
STreet. He is a director in the Manchester Bank, and has been for
thirty-five years.  He is in politics a Republican.
  Mr. Maynard is a builder and contractor, and is an active builder
and contractor, and is an active business man to-day, although
eighty-one years of age. His father was in the Revolutionary War,
and died at the gae of ninety-seven years.

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