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Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County vol2
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Professor Samuel Taylor Maynard accompanied his parents from Hardwick, his native town, when six months of age, to Harvard, where the family lived about three years and moved to Northboro, Berlin and again to Northboro, respectively. He was schooled in the various common schools of the towns where his parents lived, and then entered the MA College of Agriculture, from which institution he graduated in 1872. For three months after his graduation he went as foreman for the Nonantum Hill Nursery at Brighton. From that position he went to the College of Agriculture again as its assistant professor of horticulture, and then became professor of botany and horticulture. He was connected with this institution for thirty-four years, as student and teacher, as well as a director of horticultural experiments. Since severing his connection with that college, which was in 1904, Mr. Maynard has been conducting a fruit farm and doing landscape gardening. His time is occupied at small fruit growing, some nursery work, and writing, more or less, for horticultural papers. He is the assistant editor of Suburban Life. Politically he is a supporter of the Republican party, and is a member of the Unitarian Church.
Professor Maynard married (first), in 1873, Mary Eddy, born 1851, died in 1882. She was the daughter of Elisha and Lucy Baldwin, of Westboro They had the following children: Howard Eddy, born 1878, married Bertha Newhall, of Lynn, MA; he is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic School and a MA Agricultural College, and resides at Boonton, New Jersey. Alice Elizabeth, born May 22, 1876, a graduate of Smith College and is now a music teacher in the public schools of Wilton, New Hampshire. Professor Maynard married (second) Amy Barnes, of Northboro, daughter of George and Mary Lincoln, of Northboro. By this union there are two children: Edna Barnes, born August 2, 1896; Edward Barnes, born at Amherst, May 29, 1898.
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1848 - 1881 (33 years)
