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"Doc Maynard"

It all seemed so simple in November, 1981. With all that has been written on Doc Maynard, surely there must ba a large body of first source material. After all Prosch, Speidel, Murray, Nelson, Newell and others hadn't just run about quoting each other!

So I began, swiftly, a thesis formed, "Doc Maynard was run out of •*" out of town in 1857 as an 'Indian lover'."

The proposition seemed quite likely then. Doc Maynard had lived among the Indians, spoke their language and was regarded as a person of consequence. It would have been natural that Doc when the Indian

Wars of 1855-1856 started, would not give wholehearted approval to the notion, "The only gocc1 Indian is a dead Indian," The attitude we find justified in our Cowboy and Indian movies, though with considerably less vehemence. No, Doc Maynard would not have acquiesced to the whole- sale slaughter of Chief and his tribe. Hence the 120 citizens of Seattle might have resented his attitude and expelled him as a member of the community in the rabidly, physical fashion of the day.

I quickly found three sources of support for my thesis, Bill Speidel,

Murray Morgan, and Gordon Newell, though all three are secondary sources and none of them has a bibliography. Still, I was encouraged.

Gordon Newell in Totem Tales of Old S^Pttle^, published 1956, has this to say concerning Doc Maynard, the Indians and the move to Alki Page 2

Point:

Doc Maynard was among the hardest hit. He had always been a good friend to the Indians, a trait which had seemed amiable, but was now sinister. People who had once treated the bandy- legged Salish with reasonably good natured contempt now hated all Indians and they hated "Indian-lovers" like Doc right along with them. Doc was a Democrat, to, and the gathering clouds of civil war were bringing with them another term of contempt- Copper- head, Doc wouldn't compromise. He believed in states rights and he made no bones about it even when he was sober, a condition which became less and less frequent x^ith him. All his old friends among the city fathers were Republicains . Doc Maynard the most gregarious and open hearted of men, felt himself rejected by the town he loved. It was a situation which tended to sour Doc's usually jovial nature. ,/

Encouraging as that is I was a little put off by the lack of a bib- liography and my impressions from Rogues, Buffoons, and Statesman where, I am amazed to discover that almost all the good governers ©

Washington State fe«s»«b«d.wer e Democrats and that any Democrat was

3,' • - ' "; " *s a good Governor. Further, Newell believes that even if we concede the possibility there was once a good Republican Governor, then he

|iied before his term ended or he had an ugly daughter on the state's payroll or he owned a saloon and whorehouse. From this evidence I deduce that Mr. Newell is a lifelong Democrat of the Old New Deal school, that he has an axe to grind, and that he won't let the facts interfere with his prejudices. So his supportive book with no bib- liography is nice but lightweight support.

Next we have 's Skid Road with a chapter devoted to Doc Maynard and the Indians . j He supports my thesis with the following comments .

..., the homesteaders had their doubts. How could you ever be sure? They hated and feared the Indians, all Indians... . For Maynard, when he returned from , that was the greatest misfortune of all. It cut him off from the

*!• Totem Talcs of Old Seattle, Gordon Newell, 1956, Superior Publishing Go. page 37 2. Skid Row, Morgan Murray, 1951, Viking Press, page 51 •

Page 3 wp town he loved, since he was the known friend and associate of redskins. It was useless for him to point out that it was his duty to mingle with Indians, useless to say that his friendship with some of them had lessened the danger to the community. His friends understood; those who knew him less well he could not reach. He was an Indian Lover., He was a Democrat to, in the shifting climate of opinion. Nationally the Whigs had given way to the new Republican Party, and the other leaders of Seattle - Yesler, the Dennys, Dr Smith - were of the Republican Kidney> ..., when half the families had left toxra, Maynard found himself estranged from the rest of the community But /this man who had been a mover and shaker, thi.s b.ooster who had been a one man Chamber of Commerce, found himself put aside. And not only did Maynard receive scant thanks for his work with the Indians, but he tailed to get back most of the money he supplied...... As the Civil War approached and passions rose, Maynard, the friendliest of men, found Seattle unbearable. He longed to escape to the solitude of the farm. In 1857 he traded 260 acres of his land...- to C.C. Terry in return for a 319 acre farm on Alki Point.

Murray Morgan is a journalist turned historian, therefore, any axes

he has to grind will be unintentional and it is significant that he

also supports my thesis. I was annoyed that there was no bibliography

in his book but felt sure after reading it that Maynard's diary extended

beyond his trip across the plains; Prosch had only published the part

of the diary from Missouri, May 1850^to Olympia, September 1850. When

I got my hands on the original diary I knew I would have proof positive,

one way or another on my thesis. f

The last link of support I had was Bill Speidel, who, surprisingly tJL has a list'x>f sources though not an actual bibliography .^ Speidel has

the following things to say on Maynard, the Indians, and the move to

Alki Point:

3. Ibid, page 51 4. Doc*Maynard, Bill Speidel,1978, Nettle Creek Pub- lishing Company, pages 266-270 A Page 4

Doc Maynard was condemned by his peers as an "Indian Lover", than which there could be nothing lower...,.

Doc was not so much pro Indian as he was anti-annihilation.... But, when Doc placed himself on the side of the Indians, he becasae a clear cut pariah to his peers.

The most powerful of these peers, of course, was Governor Stevens. ..., the power of public opinion was ninety-nine and forty-four hundredths percent with him (Governor Stevens) ,

The property (260 acres) which the doctor swapped Charlie was outside the platted part of town,... , half of this property was under water at high tide... and the other half of it was on the side of Beacon Hill. „ . >

Doc sold Charlie (Terry) 55 lots on platted part of his claim for $3,300...

Doc acquired a $5000 mansion at Alki Point in the bargain. To that date,..., the doctor had disposed of 320 acres of land... so they still owned 320 acres.

The doctor got $3,300 for his property - seven months after the Indian Rebellion was history and real estate values on the Sound were as close to zero as they ever got.0 o

I have trouble with my feelings about Speidel's Doc Maynard. It was initially from this book that I formed my thesis. It did not make sense, as I read Speidel's account, that a person who had devoted

so much time, effort, and energy would suddenly get up and retire to

Alki Point. It seemed to me that there had to be a more convincing

reason. So I formed my thesis and started off. Initially I really liked

the book; the story Speidel tells is funny, noble and inspiring. I

really wanted to believe it was true; but it just ain't so. Speidel

is not a scholar. Consider the following quotes from his own manuscript!

5- Ibid, page 178- 6. Ibid., page 202, 7. Ib_id, page 247. 8. Ibid,, page 248 . Page 5 , . , ,

Very properly the young couple (Maynards) produced a daughter, Frances, in 1830, and a son, Henry in 1834.

... until Frances was twenty... and Henry 16... ^ * ...«., 4 ... his wife had two children, The Eldest a Son Born in the Year 1830 named Henry C. Maynard and the Youngest a Daughter Born in the year 1834 named Frances J. Maynard.^

Amusing isn't it? Never-the-less it does raise the point: how much

can we trust Speidel? He can't even keep from biting his own tale in

, .,,.. ,. a, his own book.

I have not, unfortunately, been able to duplicate all of Speidel's *••• ••• •» t work^ he has been collecting for ten years. However, one of the parts

I did check out was the Microcopy of Records in the National Archives <,

Washington Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-1874, Microfilm •M. !•••" '\»m t Number 5 letters from Sub-Agent, David S. Maynard, Fort Kitsap, to

Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens...,.

Here is what Speidel has to say about that file,""The correspondence

on this one is a little bit one-sided because only the docter's letters

are on file." _

True, only the Doctor's correspondence is on Roll # 10. However,

Miscellaneous file #5, twenty seven rolls, includes, Steven's letters;

they are on the first rolls. With a bit of difficulty I was able to

find all of the letters from Stevens to Doc Maynard February to March

1856 on roll // 1. This required no special expertise on my part or beyond looking at the Index roll and realizing that all Steven's A outgoing correspondence was recorded and doing the appropriate,

though exhausting (I hate microfilm) if not exhaustive search. I

admit they are boring reading. Stevens comes off as s small-minded

9. Ibid.,page 9 10. Ibid, page 11 11. Ibid, page 113 (Doc Maynard's petition to Oregan Leg.) , 12. Microfilm #5, Roll 10 of 27, Microcopy of Records in the National Archives, Washington Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-1874, Miscellaneous file # 5 13. Doc Maynard, Bill Speidel, 1978, Nettle Creek Pub. Co., page 220 Page 6

bureaucrat. I suspect he was harrassing the doctor. . So Speidel, or

whoever did his research, wasn't thorough.

Speidel seems to have written the book with an eye toward a good

story, partly factual. He presents Doc Maynard as an early day liberal

who made lots of money. Speidel devotes a great deal of energy to

disproving the standard myth that Doc Maynard was an idiot concerning

money. This myth is most vehmently put forward by Gordon Newell

in Totem Tales of Old Seattle with such quotes as:

Doc Maynard seldom made a mistake when it came other folk's welfare. He seldom made anything but mistakes when it came to his own.,, 14 Doc figured they might as well do things legally, all things considered, and after a drink or two to warm up his thinking processes, he came up with a brilliant scheme..,.

He kept drinking; folks said "Old Doc's a better doctor drunk than the rest of them cold sober", but they seldom thought to pay him for his services and Doc hated to send bills.,, ib It is truly amazing how the myth of Doc Maynard's total ineptitude has spread after starting with Prosch and his book David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard. Speidel is quite right to want to straighten

the record on Doc Maynard's financial reputation. After all Doc Maynard did live quite well for many years off of the sale of 640 acres that he got for free, he held a number of government jobs which paid very well, and he was deeply involved in trade in Seattle. He made money.

However the subject is Speidel and his defence of Doc Maynard. I won't go into exhaustive detail on this but consider the following quotes:

14. Totem Tales of Old Seattle, Gordan Newell, 1956 Superior Publishing Company, page 41 15. Ibid, page 41 16. Ibid, page 41 Page 7

Doc accompanied his pile of wood to California and sold that 400 cords of wodd in San Francisco for forty dollars a cord... sixteen thousand bucks,...

And made about $20,000 on the "wood goods" in the same shipment. 18 ..., the doctor and Felker- and maybe the judge- got their fair share of that first 30,000 to 40,000 tons that were dumped (by 1890)JW__

At five bucks a ton

He was already selling that land at an average of $290.95 an acre. (Seattle townsite of 55 acres X 290.95 = $16,002.25) (this is in 1857)

I added all that up and got $52,002.25, of course Speidel ignores 4 the freight charges on Maynard's wood and lumber. I am also a bit

dubious about his $290.25 figure. He never does give the final total

of all lot sales or what lots had been sold at th^t time. In any

case, while recording Maynard's money-making schemes, Speidel never

gives us any clue as to where the money went. Living high on the

hog perhaps? And what of Doc's daily income aside from these gigantic

deals? DocKaynard was Indian Agent, King County Clerk, Chief Justice,

Lawyer, S^ ore Proprieter, Doctor, Notary Republic and first Commissioner

of Education. Were all these without salary? So many unanswered

questions.

Still anyone who wishes to write about Doc Maynard will have to

deal with Bill Speidel's book. For despite his use of the material

Speidel has collected many sources of information hitherto untapped.

These include the following:

17. Doc Maynard, Bill Speidel, 1978, Nettle Creek Pub., page 75

19. Ib_id, page 138 20. ^bid_, page 181 Page 8

1. Ownership of early land claims with Leo Doyajin (discovering

no land sales by Arthur Denny before 1857) and land deals

in general for downtown Seattle? Speidel refers to this in

Doc Maynard in his list of sources but never discusses every-

thing he has found.„

2. Cost of a cord of wood in San Francisco in 1851, $40 \J>' a cord from Washington State Library

3. Finding the letters from Doc Maynard to Isaac Stevens

at the Sandpoin t Naval Archives-^

4. Finding the bust of Doc Maynard in King County Hospital.

5. Finding Doc Maynard's letter of resignation in the Washington

State Archives.9S

6. It is indirectly due to Speidel that we have Chris "\v t Maynard Braaten's transcriptions of Doc's letters to Henry, 1850- J 1873.

7. And my own paper, I wouldn't have written this without having

Bill Speidel's..Doc Maynard to react to.

In fairness I should not deny Bill Speidel his scholarly victories,

where he sets the record straight after it has been mangled by others.

He, himself, records the following:

There is some disagreement among authorities on where the doctor and Catherine were living at the time some say at the hospital. Asemath Ann's story reveals they were living in a far more pretentous place.-.

It is easy for the other authorities to have been confused for in

21. Ibid, page 206 22. Ibid, page 266 23. Ibid, page 268 24. Ibid, page 267 25. Ibid, page 270 26. Ibid, page 25 7 Page 9

the Seattle Gazette of December 10, 18639 7 we have an announcement of an opening of a hospital on Commercial between Main & Jackson,

Physicain and Surgeon is located at all hours except for business.

Asemath Ann's story is:

"Uncle and Aunt Maynard took us into their big new home." And gave us the wedding. Here's a picture of the house and the corner room upstairs there was Auntie's. That's the room we were married in. Reverend Daniel Bagley married us. It was the 23rd of August 1864..." 0 Z.O In spite^of his scholarship victories and his additions to the fund of knowledge we have to keep in mind that Speidel twisted his

information. And to know what to trust and what to discount we must consider how and why he twisted.

Probably Speidel 's largest single source in Doc Maynard is Charles

Prosch's book David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard, published in

1909. Q Both in content and layout they are similar, dealing in great detail with Maynard ' s life from 1850-1857, with a brush off of the last sixteen years, though Speidel pads his book with his own research and reinterpretations from other sources.

Contrast what Prosch says of an incident in 1851 in San Francisco and how Speidel interprets the same incident:

pointed to a chest of gold in the tent. "Maynard, if you lift that off the ground I'll give half of it to you." Though a stout man too heavy-for the Doctor. (Prosch, p 26)«^

See how Speidel reinterprets this:

In a classic sense, Weller offered the ultimate bribe. He

27. Seattle Gazette, 12, 10, 1863, page 2, column 4 28. Roj^Iajma^, Bill Speidel, 1978, Nettle Creek Pub lishing Company, Menesha Wisconsin, page 258 & Chehalis Bee Nuggett, August 28, 1931 29. D_ayid S. Maynard & Catherine T. Maynard, Charles Prosch, 1906, Lowman & Hanford, Seattle 30. Ibid, page 26 Page 10

pointed to a chest of gold in his tent and told the doctor he could keep all that he could carry away. The powerfully- built doctor who had just had completed eight months of hard labor in the woods had a fortune at his fingertips.

When Maynard smiled and declined the offer, Weller knew that their close association was a thing of the past... . (Speidel, P.

And so it goes. Speidel reinterpre ts history to show that Maynard

never failed at anything and was always a success. Speidel discounts

the effects that drinking had on Maynard .(though after reading the

character assasination in Totem Tales some discounting is in order.

Consider if you will the following quotes:

'^ (On the trade of downtown Seattle for Alki Point) . . . , while Doc was probably no worse pff than he would have been anyway. More and more he was viewing a topsy turvy world through the distored glass of a whiskey bottle. ., J -J (From a description of Alki Point) But it was a farm house and Doc was no farmer (footnote, Some idea? of Doc's farming ability can be gained from the contemporary account of an old gentleman named David Stanley. After looking over Doc's Alki property, old man Stanley announced that the experience had given him relig on . "Nothing short of the ingenuity and power of the Almighty could have piled up as many logs and stumps to the acre as I found on your farm,1' he told Doc.) Mud and manure weren't for him; besides, a man who's up most of the night working his way through a demijohn of blue ruin whisky is seldom in shape to start milking cows and plowing ground at sunup. That was one of Doc's troubles. „,

Word got around across the bay that Catherine was digging clams on the beach three times a week, and in pioneer Seattle cirlces that meant just one thing. . .poverty.

However the subject is Bill Speidel 's reaction to such character

assasination, not Gordon Newell^ Speidel reacts by supporting, even

approving of Maynard ' s allowing a house of prostitution in Seattle.

31. skipped a number 32- Doc Maynard, Bill Speidel, 1978, Nettle Creek Pub- lishing Company, page 76 33 • Totem Tales of Old Seattle. Gordon Newell, 1956, Superior Publishing Company, page 39 34. Ibid, pa«e 39 35. Ibid, page 39 Page 11 totally glossing over the effects of the land claim dispute on Seattle and Maynard, supports Doc's decision to leave wife and family/(indeed implies he should have done so sooner), and applauds Doc's rescuing: of the Indians (or invents Doc's rescuing of the Indians). This brings me to the key question of the analysis. What is Bill Speidel writing about? A rhetorical question| the answer is Bill Speidel.

I finally figured this out as a result of reading newspaper articles.

While the majority of newspaper articles on Doc Maynard written after 1906 are worthless for information, being rehashes of Prosch or other later (post Prosch) newspaper articles ( there are three exceptions Murray Morgan's article in the Argus October 26, 1962, an article in the PI March 18, 1937 describing the dedication of

Doc's bust at the King County Hospital Library and Dr. James

Warren's article in the P.I. in 1981.), there is one very interesting newspaper article in the Seattle P.I. of August 21, 1975, / by ^ <** Neil Modic. He states that Bill Speidel proposed the name of Maynard

Stadium for the King Dome, admits that he is a member of AA, says

Doc would have been a member of AA if they had had them then, and says he is probably the reincarnation of Doc Maynard. The reporter goes on to note that Bill Speidel is the owner of the Doc Maynard tavern. We should also note that Speidel now lives on Vashon Island

(after living in Seattle) rather like Maynard's move to Alki Point.

I put that all together, compare it with Speidel's outline of Maynard's life and conclude that Doc Maynard is a fine autobiography of Bill

36. Seattle Post Intelligencer, Neil Modic, August 21, 1975, page A7, column 1 Page 12

Speidel.

His long chapter in Doc Maynard on prostitutes in Seattle suggests that he himself likes prostitutes. The passages supporting the breakup and subsequent remarraige of Doc Maynard suggest that Bill Speidel has a second wife: statements about how Doc Maynard had no Alcfiol-v o\s in the years 1850-1857 indicate that perhaps Bill Speidel

wants to believe that Alcohol, really, has no effect on a person.

And finally when I read derogatory racist statement followed by derogatory racist statement about Indians, particularly the Duwamish, and especially Seattle, and compare them with the record of Doc's association with and Murry Morgan's essay on Doc, I come to the conclusion that Bill Speidel is possibly;~prejudiced regarding

Indians. You have to seperate Bill Speidel from Doc Maynard to begin to get the outline of the real Doc Maynard.

Next we must consider Speidel's source, Thomas W. Prosch and his book David S. Maynard and Catherine T. Maynard.-Physician, a Merchant, a Fisherman, a Teamster, a Blacksmith, a Farmer, a Lawyer, a Judge, a Town Builder, all in one Court Experiences 1853-54-55-56 and his book Chronicles of Seattle.

I quote from Thomas Prosch's David S. Maynard & Cathnrine T.

Maynard on the sale of Seattle:

The war being ended, Maynard returned to town. Conditions had greatly changed. The farms of the country had been prac- tically destroyed, but little more than the land left. Homes in town had been similarly treated. Quite a number of the survivors either had already left the country or were then preparing to leave. Page 13

The population was much reduced. There was no business. Money was exceedingly scarce. It was difficult indeed to live in the ordinary way. The town was set back several years. There was no demand for lots. In fact there were more lots than there were people, and some of the discouraged ones were led to believe and say that enough land was already platted and sold for all the town there ever would be of Seattle. Maynard, being of hopeful disposition, and inclined to optomism, was unable to share in the. gloomy view of his fellow townsmen. At the same time he could not endure a life of sloth and inaction. His thoughts turned to the soil, and he began to talk of the pleasant life of the farmer. He was sure that if he were a tiller of the soil he would be prosperous as well as happy. Visions of the orchard, the vegetable garden, the poultry, the horses and cattle were before him. The more he thought of these things the more he wanted his visions realized. He did not reflect that he had land enough and good land for this purpose. He must have another place, out of town, in the country, and yet near by, where he could maintain his agricultural operations and still, if he chose, make a few dollars occasionally from the practise of his profession among his old neighbors. While in this frame of mind he fell in with Charlie Terry. Terry was the keenest and shrewdest of the local pioneers, full of energy and action, and one who knew a good thing when he saw it. In trading Maynard was no match for him. It did not take Terry long to efface an exchange of his Alki Point claim of 319 acres for the 260 acres of Maynard ' s claim then unplatted. _,

When I first read this I discounted it. I had assumed that there was a body of primary source material that everybody was drawing from.

(Little did I realize that Prosch was the source on Maynard.) Further,

it seemed to me that all he had listed were the negative economic

reasons and the positive personal reasons for moving, leaving the

social and negative personal reasons out. I was aware that in 1906

boosterism was still very very strong in Seattle and no loyal adoped

son would wisely slander his adopted city. Also, in the Victorian Era

people believed in glossing over negative aspects.

37. David S. Maynard & Catherine T. Maynard, Charles Prosch, 1906, Lowraan & Hanford, Seattle, page 48 Page 14

Even after I have found my thesis discredited by primary source material, I still don't buy Prosch's argument. There had to be other factors involved.

Nonetheless though I don't like Prosch and have major doubts about his reliability, I do realize that Prosch is the bedrock for discussing Maynard's career and life particularly in the Pacific

North West. Prosch was a close friend of Catherine T. Maynard. Dr.

James Warren of the Museum of History and Industry says Prosch got

Mrs. Maynard to donate Doc's tools to the Museum. So he probably wrote the book with her collaboration and I wouldn't be surprised if she proofread the proposed manuscript. So there may be two primary sources in his book. A very interesting question is what happened to Mrs. Maynard's papers or books? In an interview of July 4, 1896 in the Seattle Times Mrs. Maynard states that she is poor on dates 38 but if the reporter will check back with her she will check in her books to see if she got the date right for her crossing the strait twice with Princess Angeline to warn Seattle of impending Indian

Attack. Interestingly enough Doc claims credit for himself and Chief

Seattle for one trip in a letter of August 1856 to the Superintendent of Indian Affairs. In any case the question is what did Prosch do with 39 Mrs. Maynard's papers after she died? Are they the basis for Prosch's

Chronicles of Seattle ? If not how much ;d±d sMrs. Maynard give him for

Chronicles?

38. Seattie Times, July 4^ 1896 39. Microcopy of Records at the National Archives, Washington D.C., Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1853-1874 Miscellaneous file #5, Roll # 10, Section // 2, letter of August 1856 Page 15

Nonetheless there are contradictions in his storyline for

Seatlle and the Maynards. In David S. Maynard and Catherine T.

Maynard , he states most emphatically that Doc was on the farm for six years untill 1863. However, in Chronicles of Seattle , Prosch states that the Maynards returned in 1858. Of thetwo opinions I believe the second. I have found a newspaper story dated February

26, 1858 in the Pioneer Democrat, which states," the residence on Alki was destroyed by fire Friday last (2,19,1858) clothing only was saved, Dr. was absent do\m the Sound.", All the time lines give Maynard returning after the fire dated 1863. But the fire happened in 1858, so I believe that Doc moved back in 1858.

As further proof; in the transcripts of Doc's letters we have the following dates and locations:

Seattle April 11, 1857

Alki March 5, 1858

Seattle November 18, 1858

Seattle thru 1872

It is further fascinating (and infuriating) that in the letter of

March 5, 1858 Doc says:

"Therefore I left home on the 10th of February to attend U. S. District Court in Island Co. 70 miles off... . I returned about midnight of 14th I walked up to front gate leading to my house, when I discovered my house burned to the ground.^2

I am further infuriated to have him add:

"I had a small tin trunk which contained my notes & most valuable papers which was snatched from the flames and saved,... ." ,„

Where is that trunk?

40. Olympia Pioneer^Dernocrat, February 26, 1858 page 2 column 3 & page 4 column 4 41. Ibid 42. Chris Maynard Braaten's tran script of Doc's letters to his son Henry from May 1850 in Missouri thi«'1893 Seattle 43. Ibid, Page 16

My paper will in the end ask more question than it answers.

Lest I come down too hard on Prosch I should note tha-t his

Chronicles of Seattle is bursting with valuable information on Seattle from 1852 - 1896. Prosch has gone thru and year by year glenned such items as/who was elected, total taxes for

the county, who won in Agricultural contests (Doc won one prize!) and other items of offical news too numerous to detail.

From Prosch we will go to the Territorial newspapers from 1850

- 1873 for mentions of Doc Maynard. Here is what I have found by compling listings from the Washington State Library, , and Seattle Public Library: Page & Column Date Paper Number Description

1/22/53 Pioneer Democrat 3,2 Marriage 1/15/53 by Rev. Ben- jamin Close

11 29/54 3.5 Warrant for Arrest of Leonard M. Felker, ship's first mate

11/16/55 3.2 Maynard with Seattle & Port Orchard Indians

1/23/57 3,5&4,1 advertisement: Doc practises Medicine & Surgery

4/10/57 3.6 advertisement: 1. add more extensive medicines 2. Dry goods, clothing, hardware & groceries

2/19/58 2,1 thank you for a package of letters

2/26/58 " 2.3 residence on Alki destroyed by fire, loss $5,000, Friday last (2,19,58)

11/26/58 2,6 letter on agriculture says he is 1. New to Farming 2. He tried seaweed on Potatoes as a fertilizer, yields excellent crop. 3. He is doing well. Number Description

8/15/63 Seattle Gazette 3,4 administrative sale of J.A. Kidd, Block 53, lots 7,8 in block 17 of Dr. Maynard's Plat.

8/15/63 3,2 Agricultural Society formed, 19 articles, 7 rules, $1 a year'dues, $2.50 initiation; D. S. Maynard, Chairman.

12/10/63 2,4 advertisement of Hospital; building on Commercial between Main & Jackson. Physician & Surgeon located at all hours except when away for business.

12/10/63 2,4 Hospital opens 15th of Dec. upon satisfactory evidence of ability to pay will find room & board. Mrs. C. T. Maynard will run lying in Dept.

12/26/63 2,1 Treat by Pioneer, supper at Union Hotel to company of friends. Docter in one of his happiest story telling moods, good food, good time (J.R. Walker or M.P. Canovan author?)

3,2 advertisement for Hospital, see above 12/10/63

5/28/64 2,3 Maynard receives A.S. Mercer & company of fair,ones. Maynard introduces Rev. N. Doane.

8/19/66 Weekly Intelligencer 3,1 Departure of an old pioneer. Doc says he & Mrs. Maynard will go to Oregan never to return on Thursday's steamer. Doc located original plat, named city, regret departure, when prospects for town loom brightly in the future!! He has been a permanent fixture, difficult to realize he really intends to leave. Good fortune to jovial, good natured, generous hearted Doc. Page 18 Page & Column Date Paper Number Description

12/16/67 Weekly Intelligencer 2,3 & Announcement of Auction sale 3,1 23, December 1867 at 2 o'clock Lot No. 2 Block No. 6 in Seattle & 200 acres more or less being the remainder of domation claim & Alki farm, 315 acres & Chattel goods.

3,1 Doc Maynard will leave in a few short weeks!! This offer is a splendid oppurtunity!

1/6/68 Daily Tribune 1,1 Maynard to move to Cowlitz (found no information on this)

2/29/68 Wash. Standard 2,3 First settlement by Doc Maynard

3/23/72 2.3 Maynard case," verdict soon '

4/18/72 Dispatch 3,3 East % to Lydia, West % to Doc.

4/20/72 Seattle Gazzette 2,2 Seattle townsite, east % Lydia, west % Doc

4/25/72 Jugest Sound Dispatch 1,3&4 facts of Maynard Land case- 6 findings. Lydia wife till 1852, . <. ., Catherine since 1853, 1850 Doc was to return in l%-2 years, Lydia & children not resided on claim, Doc-has sold except .2 lots. , • 4/25/72 Seattle Gazette 1,3-6 above & Lydia notfied of divorce 1853,, 3/15/73 Wash. Standard 2,3 Doc not expected to live

3/15/73 Seattle Intelligencer 2,3 Doc not expected to live

3/23/73 Wash. Standard 3, 2 Doc died March 13, 1873 at 65 years of age.

3/17/73 Weekly Intelligencer 3,1 Death of old pioneer, died comparatively poor.

3/17/73 Daily Pacific Tribune 3,1 Issue missing

3/17/73 Daily Tribune 3,1 age 65, died Seattle March 13

44 Lydia was notified of the divorce by a letter to her son, Henry in July 1853. Page 19 Page & Column Date Paper Number Description

3/22/73 Wash. Standard 3.2 Death

4/29/76 2,5 Case hearing in June.

10/17/76 Daily Pacific Trib. 3.2 Growth of Seattle (can't find)

10/18/76 " " " 3,3 Early settlers were (can't find)

1/25/77 " " " 3,2 D.S. Maynard case (can't find)

4/4/79 Washington Standard 1,3 Item regarding decision in matter concerning Seattle townsite & Maynard donation claim.

7/4/96 Seattle Times 8.3 Interview with Mrs. Maynard where she refers to "her books".

7/27/1906 (Bagley Scrapbook Seattle heroine 90 years old. No. 8 UW) Lived in house provided by 45 friends.

10/21/1906 Death comes to Seattle's oldest pioneer.

C. T. Conover was a reporter who did a column entitled "Just Cog- itating" for the Seattle Times. In several colums from the years 1948 to 1961 he mentions Doc Maynard. In reading these columns one finds

Mr. Conover repeating by rewording a the_same information over and over again most of it is inaccurate but he does have a nice handy list of Doc's occupations. It is particularly amusing to see his first discovery in the 1950's of a twelve page pamphlet by Prosch. I suspect that he discovered Maynard as newspaper material by reading Sophie

Frye Bass's When Seattle was a Village published in 1948 the year of

Conover's first article on Doc Maynard. I have listed the dates and

45. University of Washington North West Room, Newspaper Scrapebook, Clarence Bagley, unpublished. Page 20 pages of his articles in an appendix.

In addition to the newspapers there are a few first source fnanus"6fip"ts on Doc Maynard available to the general public in the Manuscript Section at the University of Washington they are:

Letter from G.oldborough to Tilton 10/27/ 1859, A long letter talking about the settlement, substitution of lots, between the Goldsborough, Mason & Tilton combine and Doc Maynard over a lot he sold to them which he had previously sold.

Vertical file it 331 University Washington Manuscripts, a history of title fights over lots, filed under Goldborough, Hugh Allen. Has a list of Maynard's title transfers from 23, May 1853 to 6 August 1855 without prices. And a mention(?) of a final deed of November 19, 1856 for $5,500 ,'

Beardsley, Arthur S., Box 1 of 2; evidence in a land dispute over 2 lots,:_includes list of Maynard's sales & prices (compre- hensive?) (No!), includes two deeds to Angus Mclntosch in which Doc exchanges $1 for 1/5 of remaining land owned by him on claim and another deed in which he exchanges $50.00 for all lots except ... .

Marshall, Williams, all B/42 Box 7; original? of Maynard's appointment as Clerk, King County April 21, 1853 & a certificate of land claim of 1856, filed in 1888

Beals, Walter B., Deed 7/6/68 Box 12 & 17 D48/2 , Sale of lot 2, Block 6 for $1,000.

The above is not really a lot of material to go on. Now, however, we have some of Maynard's letters. Chris Maynard Braaten (pronounced

Broughten), a descendent of Doc's son Henry, is transcribing letters from Doc to his son. The following is a list of what he has:

St. Joseph, Missouri; May 5, 1850 & May 7, 1850 -Dear wife & children, broke, in company of ..., travelogue, St. Joseph, accident, no word of you, write Sacramento California in mid July.

Seattle, October 30, 1853 - Dear children, steammill, surveying claim cost..., health, left side enlarging, ships in, crops up, would send you presents if you got last gifts. Page 21

Seattle, January 1, 1854 - Reply to October 5 letter, Henry supposes they will never meet again, Carlisle was Doc's home, have home & start for Henry & Frances, , description & population (121), much trade, sold 90 lots have 220 left, wrote will, Your new mother , land law, Henry wants to marry Ellen(Andrew*s V a friend, daughter), travel arrangements, reasons he won't leave the North West, $2,200, lot sales, read survey report from Governer Stevens on Pacific North West.

Seattle, February 26, 1854 - No mail, sprained right knee, done no business, Notary Public & Clerk U.S. District Court, building office, receiving letters from Maine, watch Congress on Pacific Rail Road subject, 2 terretorial roads to Seattle, business is too much lumbering, dreams of Henry's, Francis's & Andrew Hill's arrival, advice on plains travel which includes self description of his status with the Indians, Henry's watch hangs on wall, your mother (Catherine), 2 gold breast pins for Frances, stock, 5 warrents to serve, will send gifts soon with Stroble.

Seattle, April 17, 1854 - Stroble is coming, sending little because ..., please come here, my course has caused you much trouble & grief, no mother (Catherine), heard nothing from Illinois, sending you 3 weekly papers, bill & tin trunk & $50 gold piece & your goldwatch ($176) with Stroble, Mrs. Maynard sends ..., health is better.

Seattle, April 19, 1854 - Stroble arrangments, contents of box, letter from Stroble asking Henry to come pick up box.

Seattle June 16, 1854 - Advice on course of establishing life, come here, my 320 acres await you & my wife's 320 acres, business to employ you, house for you & family, immense coal mines nearby, list of things sent with Stroble. Monday, June 19, 1854 received instructions on transferring money to Henry $500 to $600, bill of exchange, strain right knee, employee people, no more drinking for me, my wife who is well respected in community, saddened to never see you, tell Frances to write, writting long epistle to Governer Stevens.

Seattle, November 4, 1855 - Received your letter of July 20 on 23rd October, Indian problems, mail problems, was in Sana.Francisco, Henry leaving country (Ohio), Indian Wars, sold property to Mason, Tilton & Goldborough for $2,400, $400 annually at 10% interest, stay away till peace comes, Henry needs deed to house (where?), November 12, 1855 Mr. Smith order of $353.50, $12.00 for % lot in Milton, my wife, does he indicate with deed he left, never to return, or a precaution in case of disaster? Page 22

Seattle, March 30, 1856 - May 8, 1856 History of War (again), Governors reply to resignation, order on Mr. Smith, my deeds in War, use of hickory cane on Indian, Seattle depot of war which helps economically, mining is important economically, $4,000 drawing 10% interest offered to send you $1,000 for $1,350 my cost May 8, 1856 I will meet you in Far West, Indian War goes on will meet you if I can, many things you don't know and I can't tell you, here is $12, History of War, attack on Seattle January 26, 1856, (note: crossing of strait by Doc or Mrs. Maynard not mentioned) Landers & Stevens confrontation, write often, tell Frances to do so to.

Seattle, January 15, 1857 - Crop good, yours would be better if you were here, Indian War is over has damaged structure of society have added hardware & groceries to my drugstore (only one page transcribed)

Seattle,April''. 11, 1857 Grandfather Maynard !, everybody celebrates, give you a cow and 6 years increase, sorry about sharecropping hardships, clearing land on farm near Seattle, list of all farm tools & animals, comman labor $40 month, fishing, more mills in town, shall I sacrifice what I have for you or hope you will come here,speciman of deeds, recorded your deed, valuable , 3,600 smelt smoked, Clerks salary due me $2,600.

Alki Farm, March 5, 1858 - Sent no mail because I thought friends would visit you or: I would,Chouse burned down, was the best house in the Terr., describes house, saved small tin trunk with important papers, sloop sank loss $225, another sloop broke-up loss $325, you can have Alki farm whenever you come & look after it, wants to homestead again, planting, Mrs. Maynard (Catherine) wants to see you as badly as I, steamer blew up, there is a steamer to San Francisco every 2 weeks, planted this and that will be planting more, moved to Alki Farm 16, July 1857, offer you 200 acres and $60.00 a month and other considerations if you will come here, have a number of houses on my prop- erty so you will have a place, details of trade of 260 acres for Terry's 320 acres, on 3rd of August 1857 was offered $7500 for Alki Farm asked for $10,000, describes Alki Point, maple trees, people working, timber (cedar & fir), apples La Camus, e xpensive job of bringing water, knoll description, will pay your way out if you come, 1 year here & back if you wish, must write Ex-Governor Stevens March 5, 1858 roll logs, lumber proffered more on loss by fire, come out for one year I will pay way, would be vastly to your benefit & your mothers (Lydia), I can give you more than you can get in twenty years. Page 23

Seattle, November 18, 1858 - Ouch, Henry apparently let Doc have it, will sell land adjoining Seattle, asking $4,000 for it to be at your & Frances's disposal, can't leave the Pacific North West to live in East, little girl living with the Maynards, has Frances married poor (yes.Martin Patterson), come out here & be at least as well off with a chance of being better off, Seattle who I named town after is here, mentions 2nd house burned down (Alki?), Governor Stilwell holds $3000 back pay of U. S. District Clerki,: promisedf.me last winter, mentions the "damning Kansas affair", bill to pay me has passed lower house, went into Senate awaiting the disposal of damning Kansas affair (State or U.S. Gov ernment Houses?), legislature operates on railroad matter, bought a wagon $175, one good heifer calf (Marium) good milker, late improvements in the healing arts, practitioner places hand on belly without both being feeling more or less effect from the operation, letter from Edwin Rickey. %£ In addition to the preceeding transcripts which I have read and

K- have I was allowed to read the original copies of the untranscribed

letters, what follows are my notes on them. The author on these

letters varies some are from Catherine, one is from D. McCowen and

another is from A. Wright, both are related to Doc and Henry. I will

indicate who wrote the letters in the text, where I do not have a name

the letter comes from Doc Maynard himself.

Seattle, May 3, 1860 Unreadable.

Seattle. March 22, 1863 Unreadable.

Seattle, May 18, 1865 Unreadable.

Seattle, July 20, 1869 Unreadable.

Seattle, February 28, 1870 Received letter from Aaron Wright (your uncle), I haven't seen Aunt Malindy Lin my half sister who lives in Evanston in 35-40 years, Power of Attorney has been forwarded to Judge (Bottom?) empowering you to draw on my name, Henry's Aunt Polly Murphy, Francis & her family, send me knews of Francis that we may help her (lonely), R.R. Terminal probably at this place, Henry arranging visit, Andrew also willing to come, great change Atlantic & Pacific Oceans, you never mention the block of town property we have given to you, Francis, et al. my wife pays the taxes on Page 24

the block which is now worth $1,000 to $1,500, very fair to be worth more soon, please say something about your mother, are Martin & Francis (Patterson)"getting along:-he?nBver writes me, will you bring along Eileen & little boy, Frank has a good home for them, wants to see a grandchild, I would send for Martin & Francis to come, but they cannot now do as I did when first coming here, such a short trip between us at this time, (Mr Mines?) writes and tells me that he made the trip from Maine to San Francisco in twenty six days.

August 14, 1870 (Aaron Wright); Nephew, received letter saying no answers to letters, order for money from your father to Aunt Emeline, received letter, drew for Judge $150 have deposited at First National Bank of Averanell (sp?) , took draft from First National Bank of N.Y. for $67.50 on 26th of July enclosed in letter and mailed... 29th August., mystery to me why letter hasn't reached you, sent letter to stop payment of draft, Judge Bottom.

Seattle, October 3, 1870 Received yours of September 14, concluded that you were on the way with intention of taking us by surprise, now too late to come in fall, long time to wait, I will be 63, wife 45 on 19th day of this month, want to see grandchildren, cannot you leave your farm with Martin (Patterson?) & Frances & come out & see us, we can help them out also, you have enough to pay expenses out & back, we are old, failing and wish to see you before we die, Marienne's lots lay safe here, my wife pays taxes annually as well as the taxes ,on rest of the block, we are sure of the terminal of the railroad which will enhance your property, (letter to Aaron Wright)

Seattle, March 24, 1872 (Catherine Maynard) - Safe arrival home, Doc improves lots, Dr. Church, other matters, will send likeness forgotten by Mrs Hind (?), family, give your mother my love, bid you affectionate goodbye.

Seattle, May 3, 1872 - Wife having a poor spell, what shall I do V7ith your lots, they should be improved,..., cleared & , hardest times I have seen in this place, hope for better soon, Lawyer to D.C. to see settlement of land question, now time for Frances (her) to come and make fishing expedition, captured bear in town, how did your mother stand trip home, my wife wishes to hear from her & has not least hard feeling toward her or yourself from these troubles, willing to have matters settled, on ly to have principles their right which in good faith sold & bought, she con siders your mother more a sister than an antagonist, she says the visit (although romantic) pass over so the pur- chasers do not suffer, fault in matter lies in land office, they drew up papers thru times in different forms & I signed page 25

as instructed, write soon, sight is failing.

Seattle, June 6, 1872 (D.L. McCowen) - Working as carpenter, $3.50 a day, comman wages $3.00 a day, work for Lord, Hall, Tippell(?) & Shorey, have dissolved partnership & gone out of business, grading street, Kenyon building $30/month rent, living in house you were in while here? (huh?), he is in Oregan (Kenyon?), netted $40.00, rain, Alki (live) this year, wife sends you best wishes.

Seattle, November 1, 1872 - Reply to July 10, given up seeing you, sick for 5 weeks, unable to attend to proffessional business, goner last Sunday, vomitted 1% pints of fresh blood, mending but not well, wife attends to work, not able to tend to lots, shrubery berrys, gathering grapes, Henry's boys, Ellen & Frank, politics, 5th of November election, „..„., Republicain rule till we elect delegate to states who is known as a true Old Democcrat, flowers in garden beautiful, crops of Hay & potatoes, we had erected a fire proof store, (Commercial Street 30 ft wide, 100 feet deep) cost $70,000, sawmill changed hands, letters to you & Frances, Ellen keeps up good spirits.

Seattle, January, 27, 1873 (Catherine Maynard) - Letter of first, Ellens good health, come here so good permanently, father poor health, tumor in stomach, can't last much longer, haven't done my work, need your comfort, we will send means for you to come, your property of more value, $125.00 your lots, I own the Bay at ... and inbetween, & this side of the coal track, remains to be sold at $850.00, $400.00 readily given for the lot, Mr. McCowen went to Oregan, will live permanently in Seattle, Seattle improved very much, going forward all the time, new businesses, brick buildings, give regards to family, affectionately Mother Catherine Maynard.

Seattle, March 17, 1873 (Catherine Maynard)- Letter on funeral, whole town turned out (approximately 1,000 people jjb.)>(See Seattle Daily Tribune of 3,al7, 1873 same details jjb), hopes all are saved as am I & Doc, Doc to last active, alert, looking for you.

Seattle, October 10, 1874 (Catherine Maynard) - (first page obscured) carry box, don't know when package will reach you at the express office, portion of things properly cabled, news of farm & boys on farm (huh?), package contents, health good, Seattle improving, P.S. box 6 inches deep 12 & 14 inches wide, list of articles, father's drinking cup, Jewelry, etc.

Seattle, May 3, 1893 (Catherine Maynard) - Mrs. Maynard's case on land deal, spent over $1,OOQ on court case, deed marked with + not her signature, witness not yet in Seattle till 3 months, several 10 acre tracts, 12 years getting prop- erties, (apparently in frequent correspondence) 112 E. Main address, Page 26

Many of the letters have a tear along the outer end of the page

and, as Chris Braaten put it, one can just picture Henry getting the mail saying, "Oh, shit! Another letter from Dad," and tearing it gpen

as forcefully as he can.

We don't unfortunately have all the letter®?jl estimate that Doc wrote between 100 and 200 letters.^In the letters Doc pleads again

and again for his son, Henry, to come to Washington State to live

or even visit. He presents every argu.ment he can, social, family and

particularly the economic argunent . I am suredthat Doc used every

argument he had developed as a real estate promoter to move Henry.

It didn't work; apparently the bitterness of the divorce and his mother's presence kept Henry from ever seeing his father again. Sad,

for Doc is quite lonely in these letters.

The letters add an interesting insight to Doc Maynard's actions, motivations and financial situation, he particularly mentions the

Alki transaction, consider the following:

January 4, 1854; Seattle, KG, . "I aver- age to write as often as a and sometimes 2 a month." "...with the step I took in leaving Carlisle... you are vir- tually in possession of a better house and start in the world than any other man in Carlisle. You have a good house, 16 by 24 with a kitchen part attached to it 12 by 16 which stands on its own soil contaning 320 acres." I have kept 4 front lots and some choice back lots back until you can see and direct for yourself." ••• after deducting all expense easy 2,200 dollars..."

June 16, 1854; Seattle, Washington. "1 have.here for you 320 acres of as good land as you can find at any price."

April 17, 1854; Seattle Washington 1 I must see you or die a hard death." Page

March 30, 1856; Seattle, Washington "I have now over four thousand dollars drawing interest at 10% of which 1 have this morning offered thirteen hundred & fifty dollars for a draft of one thousand to send to you."

November 4, 1858; Seattle ' I have sold town property to... to the amount of $2400 which becomes due in annual installments of $400.00."

April 11, 1857 "there appears nothing wanting to render life agreeable to me here but the company of my children. .." (Doc has a farm in Seattle area.) "Congress has appropriated money sufficent to pay the arrears of the U.S. District Clerks salary of which appropriation I have due me §2800."

March 5, 1858 "But I have given up all hopes of your seeing it, either of you in my time if ever ... . " "We have 270 acres of Seattle farm left." "Tcwant _ (homestead) out and cannot get it while I hold the title for over 320 acres in the limits of the U.S. States." "As time rolled (on my wife & 1 grexj) tired of living in town & began to gather Mr. Terry, who can live no where else but in town, & he proposed to trade this 320 acres for 260 of mine adjoining Seattle, which proposition I accepted & moved here on 6th of that July last,...." § March 5, 1858 Seattle P. Office "A gentigrom Oregan ... of f ered. . .7500 for my 320 acres. I could not fix myself with that amount of money so well _ within the Union."

June 16, 1854; Seattle "I should be glad to live out of town & make some improvements on the farm if I had someone to attend to matters in town."

March 30, 1856 1 Not withstanding the uncomfortable position I have occupied for the last five or six months, 1 feel amply repaid when I witness the expression of the public to this effect."

March 5, 1858 - Alki Farm - "The loss has been estimated at five thousand dollars, but six thousand dollars will never make us good at the prices I have to pay for the things I had in that house." Page 28

November 29, 1858; Seattle "As I have see no prospects at hand of consumating our ?. arrangements with you and Frances as we had determined upon after receiving your refusal to our last proffer. I have been awaiting the movements of others in hopes of disposing of the lands adjoining the City of Seattle and dividing the proceeds between you." » Well there we have it, from the horse's mouth. And splat goes my

thesis. Or so it appears. I could present the argument - that Doc

would not have written about the negative events in Seattle while he

was trying to persuade Henry to come. A reasonable argument could

be presented; however, it falls thru in the election of Doc as a King

County Commissioner and Justice of the Peace in 1859 as recorded by

Prosch in the Chronicles of Seattle,,. I would just be stubborn. I —4o have been more than stubborn enough as I have gone thru the secondary

sources and ignored or discounted unpleasant facts or surmises such

as Prosch's statement on Doc's election; I argued then in November

that the Democratic political machine had placed Doc in office. Looking

back I realize that I had to fight awfully hard to keep my thesis alive

from unpleasant facts from secondary sources. I will keep in mind next

time that when you have to fight that hard to keep your thesis alive

from the beginning it is probably false.

Still we have the question: If Doc Maynard was not run out of town

than why did he move to Alki Point?

//I Doc filed his claim in 1852, by 1856 his homestead claim

was his. He was finally free to leave, with the freedom to

leave sometimes comes the compulsion to leave. .„,,.

46. Chronicles of Seattle 1850-1897, Charles- Prosch, University of Washington Nortlwest Room, unpublished typed manuscript available only at the University of Washington North West room, call ahead to check on hours. Page 29

#2 When Doc was in Ohio he, apparently, lived in Carlisle,

but worked and invested, according to Speidel, in Cleveland.

Hence it was a pattern in Doc's life to live on a small farm

and work in a larger town. He would have been repeating that

same pattern by farming on Alki Point and canoing into Seattle

and around King County.

#3 When Doc traded the 260 acre farm by Seattle for the 320

acre farm on Alki he and his wlf.e still had 270 to 320 acres

near Seattle, or so he thought.

#4 It is quite possible that Doc Maynard was simply tired of

living in and promoting Seattle. Part of this weariness would

have come as a result of the Indian Wars. Before 1855/1856

Doc had personally selected and rejected the people he wanted

in town, most of them were his friends. After the 1855/1856

Indian War the community would have been polarized around the

issue of Indians and whose fault the Indian War was. Many

people who had formally gone out of their way to greet Doc

would now not be so quick to teturn his greeing. (You didn't

think I would let my thesis die completely did you?)

#5 As part of his campaign to lure his son, Henry, to Puget

Sound Doc may have decided to buy the Alki farm to be Henry's

eventually.

#6 Since Doc had been made a lawyer in 1856 it is possible,

as suggested by Dr. Warren of the Museum of History & Industry,

that Doc knew his claim would be challenged. So he may have Page 30

decided to dispose of the half that he thought would be challen-

ged.

#7 After the Indian wars, as recorded by Prosch, the economy

of Puget Sound was shot. Land pricgs had fallen, many people

left the region, Seattle went from 121 people to 20 families,

a multitude of doubts were entered about the future of the

North West and Seattle in particular. It might have seemed

like a smart idea to see 55 lots for $3,300 and. move out to

the Alki Mansion (pronounced ALKE in the old days) by trad-

ing 260 acres for 320 acres.

#8 Doc continued to hold political jobs during this period,

he had been made Doctor to the Indians in a treaty. Alki was

closer to the reservation than Seattle is and the winds that

drive sailing ships away do not bother a beached cedar canoe.

Well, whatever Doc's motivation, the deed was done. Maynard had been peculiarly successful in real estate dealings in the Puget Sound economy which numbered between 3,000 and 5,000 white people. Doc had gotten for free land that he had been able to sell for $15,000, more or less, which is no small feat. He had a choice of any 640 acres in Puget Sound and nobody gave him a road map to Seattle's future importance. It is easy for us to realize that the City of Seattle is number one. It wasn't so clear for the first forty years. If Doc, like Laffeyette

Balch of Stielacoom, had held onto his land, it is quite possible that Seattle never would have gotten as large as fast as it did. His Page 11 openhanded generousity meant that there was never to be a single man who dominated Seattle. Always there would be room to grow, some crack in the establishment of power for a person to slip thru. Not a bad beginning for a city.

This paper raises more questions than it answers. How long was

Maynard at Alki? Prosch says one year in Chronicles of Seattle, returning in 1858, and six years in his biography of Maynard. We find a letter from Doc in the Pioneer Democrat of March 1858 , from

Alki Point, talking about seaweed as a fertilizer on potatoes and giving every appearance of being at Alki for a long time. We also have the letters from the Doctor to Henry and they are all give Se?.

Seattle as the place written.

Oh, well, we started with a question we might as well end with one... . Page 32

Appendix 1

Lest I make it appear that I have led you astray I want to state here and now that there is still a lot of research to do on Doc Maynard.

And still some questions to answer.

#1 What did Professor Smith find? Did he as Murray Morgan reports find Mrs. Maynard's papers? No I have received a letter from Professor

Smith in which he tells me he had found Mrs. Maynard mentioned in the newspapers from the time she was living in Eastern Washington.

#2 What did Prosch have & what did he or his family do with it?

#3 Where is Frances' (Doc's daughter) side of the family? Do they have letters from Doc to Frances and her husband Marvin

Patterson.

#4 What precisely did Doc get for his land claim and how long did he hold onto it?

#5 Where did all the money go?

#6 What does the Oregan Historical Society have?

#7 What does Bellingham have as reported by Speidel in Doc Maynard?

#8 What does Speidel have?

#9 Where is the diary Doc wrote that Prosch quotes? What does it say about the Puget Sound after Doc's arrival. Three pages that Doc wrote up to describe his claim on coal and then sold were taken out of it but where is the rest?

#10 What has happened to Prosch's family? Do they yet have first source information from the Maynards?

#11 When will someone set down finish the research and come up with a definitive historical biography on Doc Maynard? What has been written so far is not definitive.

#12 Where are the MaynarC's papers? . Page 33 Appendix 2

Newspaper listings since 1906 on the Maynards

First C. T. Conover's Just Cogitating in the Seattle Daily Times

May 8, 1948 page 5 April 5, 1951 November 15, 1953 page 6 November 11, 1957 page 19 March 16, 1958 page 6 Magazine Section June 23, 1958 page 8 3rd Section March 14, 1960 Section 1, page 4 February 11, 1961 page 6, Seattle Magazine Section

Other Newspaper mentioning of the Maynards since 1906

Post Intelligencer; March 18, 1937; Dedication of Doc's bust at King County Hospital. Seattle Sunday Times; (November 15, 1953?); F2; retirement short- lived, in Washington Centennial Newspapers V2 Seattle Times; November 15, 1953; Clumps of Whiskers hid pioneer's jaws; pictures of pioneers, Doc included. The Argus;October 26, 1963; page 4; Murray Morgan; Here was a Man; New Maynard hospital wing evokes some affectionate recollections of Old Doc; Under N/979.743/AR UWNW room. Seattle Times; September 15, 1963; Magazine Section; page 10-11; Dr Gideon Weed succeeded Maynard, Title: The King County Medical Society 75 years old. Daily Olmpian; March 31, 1968; page 21; Simmons Grandaughter speaks at meeting. Seattle Times; October 14, 1972; John Hinterburger; Page Al; But for Doc we would be Duwumsites Seattle P.I..; June 30, 1974; page A 18; Nick Andersen; Saga of Doc Maynard our greatest drunk. Seattle P.I.; August 21, 1975; page A7, column 1; Doc's spirits invoked; effort to name stadium for Maynard rebuffed Seattle P.I; November 28, 1975; page E 3; in Centennial Biographies by Walter Evans Seattle P.I.; May 16, 1976; pages 7-10 Northwest Section; Seattle Medicine moves out of Frontier Era. Seattle P.I.; May 23, 1976;North West Magazine pages 9-12; Walter Evans: The little town with the mismatched streets. Seattle Post Intelligencer; May 17 1981; page C 4; August 16, 1981; James Warren; Doc Maynard was a colorful pioneer. Page 34 Appendix 3

On Microfilm //,5, Roll // 1 we find the following letters from

Isaac Ingalls Stevens to Doc Maynard. Here are the dates.

February 12, 1856 # 385 - this is a frame index number February 17, 1856 # 395 which appears on some micro- February 29, 1856 # 417 film but not on 'others. March 7, 1856 //^ 428 March 7, 1856 # 429 March 7, 1856 # 430 March 14, 1856 # 445 March 14, 1856 # 445 March 22, 1856 // 455 March 31, 1856 # 428

On Roll # 10 of Microfilm 5 we have the letters from the Indian

Agents at Port Orchard (Maynard's station). Here are the dates of the

letters.

February 3, 1856 February 9, 1856 February 19, 1956 March 3, 1856 March 4, 1856 March 4, 1856 March 8, 1856 March 11, 1856 March 14, 1856 March 19, 1856 March 28, 1856 (resignation)

May 6, 1856 June 4, 1856 August 6, 1856 copy of a(Eond // 133-136 September, 26, 1856 Maynard's Annual report 0136-0137 August 1 & 4, 1856 $2,000 Bond, Gary A. Sagir & G. H. Hays will be good Indian Agents. September 21, 1856 8 page letter summary of his Agency September 21, 1856 3 page letter November 1856 pages of affidavits signed by Maynard as Notary Public taking testimony about Indians being allowed to go upstream.

In addition on Roll If 23 of Microfilm # 5 labeled miscellaneous letters we have a letter concerning Maynard.

_March 6, 1856 #317 concerning Doc's accounts by A.J. Canes (?).

I tried to go thru Steven's letters to George Manypenny his superior in the Indian Agency. I found two references to Maynard, which I have lost, I only got half way thru roll // 2, so it is possible that some- where in 26 rolls Maynard is again mentioned. Good luck. Page 35 Appendix 4

Prosch's listings and other books where Maynard is mentioned

Prosch; I spent one of the interesting hours of my life looking up the same piece of information over and over again. The following are all the same document written by Prosch:

Dr. D.S. Maynard, the pioneer physician of Seattle (paper read before the King County Medical Society, Seattle, Washing- ton. March 7, 1904

Dr. David Swinson Maynard, the pioneer physician of Seattle;; Reprinted from NW Medicine Vol II No. 4 1904 (booklet form of above. 979.719 (N) UWNW , ft

Wa. State Biography Read before K.C. Medical Society N 979.719

Incidents in Washington History // 10 N 979.7 P94i UWNW

Same as above, only hand written nicely done N 979.7 P948

Two others by Prosch

Diary of Dr. David S. Maynard while crossing plain 1850 R 979.706 The Washington Historical Quarterly VI, #1 October 1906 pages 50-62 UWNW

The Chronological History of Seattle 1850-1897 N 979.743 UWNW

Maynard is mentioned in the following books but I found no new good

(to me) information.

Washington West of the Cascades; Hunt, Herbert & Kaylor F.C. pages 167-168, N979.723 H 91 w V3 UWNW

Clinics of Virginia Mason Hospital Vol XII Spec. No. ; December 1933 pages 1-29; Seattle's first physican, Dr. David Swinson Maynard by James Tate Mason M.D. N979.743C616 UWNW

Pioneer Seattle & It's Pioneers; by Bagley; N979.743/B14 pi UWNW

History of Seattle Wash.; Balgley, Clarence Booth ; 1916; pages 828-829; N979.743/B14s V2 UWNW

* UWNW - stands for University:of Washington North West room where I found it and it indicates that that is the Library of Congress number that they use Page 36

', Costello Scrapbook V32; page 24; Obituary (Mrs. Maynard); Ronald Lewis; Washington Star; June 6, 1933; Seattle Public Library 1,11 3

Su. Wa. reports V2; page 321-328; Henry C. Maynard et al Appellants; 1888; beautiful summation of Maynard Land case Seattle Public Library

Glory, God, Gold; by Charles W. Bodemer UWNW

N970 B 22A V31; forgot title ; UWNW

History of Seattle; by Grant Fredrick James

W.C. Scrapbook no 6; p 13; Fonda

Washington Historian ; N979.795 WS UWNW

Real West Vol. XII, no 74 Sept 69; Frontier Seattle the friendly town; pages 13-14

This City of Ours;Sayre, James Willis

Builders of the North West; Johnson, Jalmar

View NorthWest; January 1977; The better half of our history; powerful women in Seattle's history set sufferage back 42 years; pages 22-26; Bill Speidel author

Puget Soundings ; June 1976; by Bill Speidel; Our Irrepressible medic; pages 20-21.

Two Terretorial articles that I wasn't able to find although listed

Weekly Intelligencer; July 15, 1872 & September 23, 1872; Maynard land case & it's dishonest investigator.

From the U.W. Manuscript section we have the Deshaw papers on page 275 after a quick scan we find D.S. Maynard listed for $36.00 there is undoubtably more here but I didn't find it.

Last there is a number of pages typed by Mrs. J.E. Edwards for

Bill Speidel, listed N979.719 UWNW, a history thru quotations from various sources of Maynard's life, very interesting. Page 37 Appendix

Further research possibilities on Doc Maynard.

Remember that as I went thru my material I was looking for proof of my thesis, so you can't be certain I didn't leave out something of importance to you.

It always seems that when you are done with something you want to go back fo the beginning and do it over again. Here is what I would do differently:

First; Check Regional Historical Index of Pacific N.W. Collections see what is listed under first source primary materials. I could have saved myself months of misconception about the availability of first source material on Doc Maynard.

Second , send letters to all the state and college Libraries, Historical Societies, Museums and likely Newspapers in Washington and Oregan asking for a list of any first source materials on Doc Maynard and a Xerox copy of their card catalogue listings on Maynard. I had quite a surprise in my investigation. The Washington State Historical Room and the University of \n have very similar card catalouge listings on Maynard

yet even they were not identical. The Seattle Public Library has a large yet strongly different set of listings on the Maynards. Each library is different.

Third write the author's of books on Doc Maynard or his time & ask for any information, advice, leads, tips they may have.

Fourth Someone needs to research the addresses of Mrs. Maynard while she was in Eastern Washington after Doc's death and^go see if there is any material lying around. You could also check the Simmon's family. Asameth Ann had a; picture of Doc's house on Maynard Point in 1933 what happened to it?

Fifth Talk to the Prosch family and find out if they have any boxes of material lying around.

Sixth Talk to the _A HaljLer family mentioned by auth oress Sophie Frye as the people who gave Mrs. Maynard a cottage for use in her final years. Did Mrs. Maynard leave behind material?

Seventh Drop out to Vashon Island and say hello to Chris, he may have the letters finished. *7 Eighth Write me a letter saying thanks c/0 109 15. 6th Mt. Vernon, Washington,98273.

Ninth Mrs. Maynard wrote Henry, Chris has an autographed copy of j)avid S. Maynard & C&therine T. Maynard signed but not dated. What passed between them? Why didn't Prosch get his hands on the letters? Page 38 Appendix 6 Last but. not least, I have deposited photo copes of the originals of many of the documents I have found at the

Museum of History and Industry in Seattle. Many of the or- iginal documents I have mentioned in my text are here and some documents which I found but were not pertinent to my paper, such as Doc's having a job as the Lewis County Census

Taker in August 1851 and being paid $150 for it, or the list of deeds from King County Deeds secion with the amount of money Doc got for the lots he sold on his claim. You may be so lucky as to have transcripts of these documents available if you go down there. Well.have fun with Doc Maynard he is quite a guy and someday somebody $ught to write a good his- torically accurate account of his life. Maybe you?