| Name |
Anna W. Crandall |
| Birth |
27 Apr 1859 |
Monticello, Sullivan County, New York  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
Apr 1910 |
157 Broadway, Monticello, Sullivan County, New York [2] |
- Jacob M Maybee, Head, M, W, 61, M1, 6, New York, New York, New York, Lawyer, Attorney, owns home
Annie W. Maybee, Wife, F, W, 50, M, 6, no children, New York, Connecticut, New York, none
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| Witness-Obituary |
14 Mar 1913 |
Monticello, Sullivan County, New York [3] |
- "Mr Maybee dropped dead a few moments ago," was the message received at the Watchman,, office on Monday morning at half past eight o'clock.
The message was too true.
Mr. Maybee was up at his usual hour. The morning was delightful with sunshine and dozens of God's songsters sat in the trees beneath his windows, making glad music. "I love the sunshine and the birds," he said, as the sun came streaming into his window followed by the voice of the birds, but he had scarcely told his wife of that love before he fell into her arms dead. A treacherous heart had gone back, on him. Life was extinct in a moment.
The birds continued to sing, but their songs had lost their charm for the Maybee household.
Jacob Maginnes Maybee was born at Roxbury on the 23d of February, 1851. He was the son of James F. Maybee and Hannah Maginnes, farmers by occupation. When Mr. Maybee was two years old his parents moved to Sullivan county, where they continued to till the soil for a livelihood. His educational advantages were limited, though like many another successful man, he had other teachers than those of the classroom, and other instruction than that from prosy text books. He became so eager to handle the thought of men and revel in the beauties in which those thought were; clothed, that he traveled repeatedly to distant neighbors to beg the loan of the singing Burns or the preacher Milton.
This practice he followed until his family moved to Strongtown, and occupied what is now known as the MacDonald farm. Here it was that he formed the acquaintance of Maj. John Waller, the proprietor of the Republican, and in 1869, entered Mr. Waller's employ as local editor. A year later A. J. Bush took him into his office as a law student and in March, 18 72, he was admitted to the bar. He must have been just 21 years of age the month before his admission—21 years of work, of success, of air castles.
While a resident of Monticello he attracted the attention of Miss Flint, a teacher of the academy, who persuaded him to join the Ciceronian debating club, and it was in that society that Mr. Maybee first gained his knowledge of oratory. Miss Flint afterwards became a well known author and Mr. Maybee a well known speaker.
It was a hard road to success, but it was the same road that most stripplings of the law have to travel. He practiced in Grahamsville, Liberty and Rockland, teaching school between times. In 1884 he was located in Walden, Orange county, and edited a paper in connection with his profession. A little later he went to Nebraska and succeeded beyond his expectation. But family; matters drove him East and in the eighties he formed a partnership with Peter B. Akins, of Livingston Manor, and soon, worked up a lucrative practice.
In politics Mr. Maybee was both a Democrat and a. Republican—the change to the latter party taking place in 1896. He first came to public notice as clerk of the Board of Supervisors in 1872. In 1891 he was appointed Supervisor of the town of Rockland to fill vacancy, caused by the death of William Parks, who was kicked to death by his horse. In 1898 he was defeated for Special County Judge by Judge Fisk and in 1905 he was elected District Attorney, which office he administered With ability and without fear or favor. In 1894 be was made a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, having defeated the late Reuben R. Jelliff for the position.
The greatest political disappointment in his life was when he failed to receive the appointment of County Judge to fill the vacancy caused by the: death of Judge Roosa. Mr. Maybee had stumped the State the fall before for Gov. Hughes, and the Governor was so delighted with his work that he was eager to do something for him. Soon after Judge Roosa died Mr. Maybee was assured by the Governor that he could have the appointment. The County Committee refused to indorse him and the Governor failed to keep his pledge. It was a cruel awakening.
On October 22, 1903, he married Miss Annie Crandall, of Monticello, who was his third wife. His first Wife was Miss Louise Goldsmith, of Bethel, His last wife, a daughter, Mildred, of New York city, by his first wife, and one sister, Kate Maxwell, of Buffalo, are the surviving relatives.
The year he was elected District Attorney Mr. Maybee took up his residence in Monticello, and continued to live here until the day of. his death.
Mr. Maybee socially was a Mason, and under that ritual was buried Thursday afternoon from the Episcopal church, of which he was a member and an active vestryman. So well was he thought of by the church that Bishop Greer made him lay reader when Rev. Mr. Stecher was taken ill, and he officiated at several services.
If Mr. Maybee was anything1 he was literary. He understood the law and understood it well, but he understood literature better. He could present a case as logically and eloquently as any pleader at the bar, but he could present a brief on Shakespeare and Milton better. He could sum up a case with the finishing touches of an artist, but he could deliver an oration better.
As a lawyer he won some notable victories in the arena of legal strength ; as an orator he won the prolonged applaudits of the people from the rostrom. As a lawyer he cleared Brethauer, who was charged with shooting his father-in-law, John Townsend. He defended the town of Rockland in the Bridge Company suit and won. As an orator he spoke in campaign and at literary functions, and his orations were often; prose poem, as soft a»d sweet to the eoar as is honey dew to the rose of t he flower garden.
Last fall Mr. Maybee made sixty speeches in the Taft campaign. He came home broken in health and unfitted for service and died after an heroic struggle to live.
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| Census |
Jan 1920 |
Monticello, Sullivan County, New York [4] |
- Annie W Maybee, Head, F, W, 58, Wd, New York, Connecticut, New York, none, owns home free of mortgage
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| Death |
13 Mar 1920 |
Monticello, Sullivan County, New York [1, 5] |
| Obituary |
19 Mar 1920 |
Monticello, New York [6] |
- Mrs. Annie W. Maybee died at 11:40 Saturday morning of paralysis at the age of 60 years, 10 months and 15 days.
She was the daughter of the late Oliver E. Crandall and Agness R. Willetts-Crandall, and was born in the Crandall home on Broadway, April 27th, 1859. Two months ago she was stricken with paralysis and the second stroke came a few hours before she died.
Her maternal ancestors were Rapelyeas, early settlers of Long Island, whose descendants found their way to Sullivan County many years ago.
She was educated in the Monticello Academy and early in life was a teacher in kindergarten work, where she was eminently successful. That was thirty-five years ago when private schools were common at Monticello and some time before the present public school had gained its popularity
and prestige.
She was an ardent suffragette and among the very first women in Sullivan County to advocate giving the ballot to women.
Seventeen years ago she married the late Jacob M. Maybee. Mr. Maybee passed out in March, 1913, and Mrs. Maybee mourned his death through the intervening years. Mr. Maybee was poetic in his mental construction and Mrs. Maybee was his genial companion. Through his poetic eyes Mrs. Maybee was perfection. "Pure as a lily," he told the Watchman, ‘poetic in her thought
and much misunderstood by some of the people." The occasion for the confidence was due to a poetical effusion on himself and wife, that had come through the mail that morning.
Mrs. Maybee had a saving sense of humor—a humor that was not enjoyed by some of her acquaintances, but hugely enjoyed by herself. She met a clergyman on the street one day and accosted him with, "Why, Mr. — are you ill? How old and grey and wrinkled you look!" "Mrs.
Maybee, I never felt better in my life," said the clergyman, who was just a little uneasy and began to side step. "Well, you don't look it, Mr. —."
"Say, I just had some real fun with Mr.— ," she told the writer, "and I had him worked up so he
couldn't stand still," and then she laughed at the recollection.
She looked strong and healthy and well and was the last person any one would expect to be stricken with paralysis at 60.
Mrs. Maybee was a member of St. John's Church. She had been a teacher in the Sunday School and affiliated with the various organizations of that church. Her funeral occurred on Wednesday afternoon at St. John's Church and interment was at Rock Ridge cemetery.
Surviving her are a brother and sister, Fowler W. Crandall and Miss Sarah R. Crandall, both of this village.
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| Reference Number |
28234 |
| Burial |
Rock Ridge Cemetery, Thompson, Sullivan County, New York [7] |
- Hon. Jacob M. Maybee, b. 1851, d. 1913; Annie W. Crandall Maybee, d. 1923, his wife
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| Person ID |
I28028 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1859 - 1920 (60 years)
