Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-11-23

State of Tennessee.
His Steadfastness to the Union
During the War
The Trials and Troubles Through
Which he Passed.
What the Leading Papers of the
South Say of Him.
Hon. Horace Maynard, of Ten
nessee,
Was born in New England in the wear
1914, at the village of Westborough, Wor-
cester county, Mass. Atabout this period
our readers will remember that the United
States had some difficulty with old Eng
land resulting in conflict at arms and
the burning of the Capitol in this city.
We mention this fact to show that the
subject of this sketch was born in an epoch
of the cOuntry's history which serves to
fix the date of his birth in our minds. Con-
cernipg the early home life of Mr.. MAY
nard we are not advised, but we do know
| that in passing through the schools of
those days, mainly at his own expense, he
! graduated at the famous Amherst college
| in 1888, in his twenty fourth year, with
| the highest honors of his class, and soon
after emigrated to the state Of Tennessee,
where he has resided forty two years.
| He is now in his sixty seventh year and is
| said to be in good health. His long resi-
dence in the state of Tennessee and his
thorough Identification with the people re-
| lieve him from the prejudices existing
against newcomers or carpet baggers,"
though some of our impetuous Southern
| friends would not hesitate to call any man
whose great great>ancestors came from
! the North, 'carpet- t-bagger'' if he voted
the republican ticket.
He entered the University of East
| Tennessee as a tutor, and subsequently
was professor Of mathematics and Ian.
| guages in that institution. During the
period of five years devoted to teaching he
studied law and was admitted tethe bar in
| 1914 at Knoxville. In this new field he
acquired an extensive practice. and be-
came the leading member of the bar in his
adopted state. His dignifed manner and
honorable course made him many friends
| despite the fact of his New England
origin. Having established himself in
business in Tennessee, he made visit to
his old home in W assachusetts, and while
there married Miss Laura Washburn,
relative of the numerous public men Of
that name, who had been so CONSPICUOUS
in public life during the last twenty five
years. Lapham's biographies say that
Mr.. Maynard "held pumber of local
offices in his adopted state," which shows,
that though a Northern man from birth,
training and education he bad the conf
dence and respect of the people among
whom he resided. He was presidential
elector in 1852 for Scott and Graham, and
was elected a representative, from Tenn
essee, to the thirty-ffth congress. During
the first session of that congress he was
chairman of the special committee to in
vestigate the accounts of William Cullom,
late clerk of the house of representatives
and was member of the committee or
claims. He was re elected to the thirty
sixth congress, serving on the same com
mittee, and also re elected to the thirty
seventh congress. For his loyalty to the
government during the early stages Of tht
war OF 1861, his property was confseatcd
and he, as we'll as his family were driver
from Eastern Tennessee by the rebe
government. We have heard it said thai
the rebels plundered his residence ane
carried away the presents of his deceased
children.
, Few men were more bitterly denounced
/ and prosecuted because of their loyalty te
the Union than MIR. aynard. He was
delegate to the Baltimore convention" o
| 1864, and member Of the convention
which am nded the cons tuition of thu
state of Tennessee, in February, 1866
After the close of the rebellion in 1866, ht
was re-elec,ed a representative from
: Tennessee to the thirty nineth congress
but was not admitted to his seat until th,
, end of the first session of that congress
; and after the legislature of Tennessee hat
, ratified the l4th amendment to the
constitution of the United States. He wa
made chairman of the committee OF
t southern railroads, and placed on tn,
: committee on the District of Columbia
He was also de!ega to the Philadelphi;
, ''loyalists' convention of 1866; re elected
> to the fortieth congress, serving on th'
committee of ways and means, an(
president of the ''border state convention
held in Baltimore in 1867. He was ais
: elected to the forty second and forty-thirs
3 congresses; and in March 1875, he wa
: appointed by President Grant, ministe
resident to Turkey. During his last tern
in congress he was chairman of the com
l mittee on banking and currency.
MIR. Maynard was continuously in con
gress, from 1857 to 1876, except two years
!, from 1868 to 1865 and the operations o
2 war in his district prevented his candidac
i for this term.
r Dnring the time mentioned he wa
g attorney general of Tennessee and re
:. porter of the decisions of the supreme
court of the state He temporarily actet
T asjudge of the supreme court of the state
It and declined an election to that Office
a The last time he was elected to congress
was from the state at large, defeating Ger
j. 3. F. Cheatham and ex-President John
!; son. Mr.. Maynard's majority in his
y congressional district was over six thou
r sand, with no rebels disfranchised, ard nc
!, over eighteen hundred colored votes ca:
for him. OF the fourteen counties in th
t district only one now gives democrat
J, majority, aid all but two were strongl
whig in the days of the old whig party
No man ever represented the district i
# congress more than three terms. exceI
8 Mr.. Maynard, and he could have cor
q tinued to represent it until now, an
# perhaps, indefinitely had he desired to d
). so. He is idolized by his party frient
Il through the entire state of I ennessee, an
J. he is reputed to be the most finished bel
b 4 lettres scholar In the state. He is count