My Genealogy Hound

BARNET MAYNARD. The firm of Maynard & Barnes have won an enviable standing in the village of Waterloo for the careful and efficient manner in which they have conducted their large and growing business, disposing, as they do, of great quantities of groceries and provisions to the people of Waterloo and vicinity, and collecting and shipping to the outside world a large amount of the produce that the capable agriculturists of Seneca County present for sale.

Mr. Maynard was born in the town of Waterloo September 30, 1858, and is the son of Samuel Stewart and Lucretia (Bonnell) Maynard. On his mother’s side he is a grandson of Henry Bonnell. His father, who is a native of this state, was born in Seneca County in 1835, and lived to be only forty-three years of age. He was one of the honest yeomanry of the land, and followed farming as an occupation. His wife, who survives him, makes her home with her son, the subject of this sketch. His grandfather was one of the pioneers of the town of Waterloo, and from him have come many of the strong and sturdy traits of his Scotch-Irish origin. The mother of our subject, who was of English extraction, had three children, of whom Barnet was the only son. Mary A. is now the wife of Joseph Barnes, a partner of the firm of Maynard & Barnes. His other sister, Edith L., is still at home.

Mr. Maynard, of whom this sketch is written, passed his youth upon his father’s farm, attending the district school and closing his school career with three years in the Waterloo High School. With ready self-reliance, he turned his attention to school teaching, and after the death of his father remained at home and assumed the care of the family and the charge of the farm. He was very busy and earnestly engaged until October, 1894, when he felt that he was entitled to a less vigorous and exhaustive occupation. Accordingly, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Joseph A. Barnes, he purchased the grocery store of A. C. Reed & Co. The firm is carrying a large and well assorted stock of goods, is doing a good business, and its future prospects seem very hopeful.

Mr. Maynard has taken an active part in political affairs, affiliating with the Republican party, and has been called to positions of responsibility. While serving as Assessor of the town of Waterloo, having been elected in 1893, he was elected Supervisor of the same town. He is still young, and may confidently look forward to higher positions in the near future.

Mr. Maynard has an interest in two well cultivated farms, one of seventy acres in the town of Junius, and the other of one hundred and fourteen acres in the town of Waterloo, and both have good buildings upon them. The larger farm is the old family homestead, and at the present time both are rented to capable tenants, but are closely supervised by Mr. Maynard. The subject of this sketch has never married. He is still a young man, and his friends and neighbors “hope for better things.”