| Name |
Orrin Maybee |
| Birth |
28 May 1820 |
Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
16 Sep 1850 |
Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin [4] |
- Orin Mabee, 30, M, Lumberman, NY
Martha M. Mabee, 27, F, NY
James Salon, 4/12, M, WI
Cereba A. Mabee, 1, F, WI
Franklin Treadway, 28, M, Laborer, Canada
James Laut, 33, M, Painter, NY
Edward Matthews, 23, M, Laborer, NY
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| Census |
30 Jul 1860 |
Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin [5] |
- Orrin Maybee, 40, M, Commission Merchant, $7000, $3000, NY
Martha M. Maybee, 38, F, NY
Edwin F. Maybee, 9, F, WI, attended school
Ellen A. Maybee, 7, F, WI, attended school
Sarah L. Maybee, 5, F, WI, attended school
Orrin F. Maybee, 3, F, WI
Estella Maybee, 1, F, WI
Margaret Dunnigan, 18, F, Servant, Canada
Hial N. Maybee, 27, M, Raftsman, $500, —, Canada (6204)
Morris Maybee, 23, M, —, $100, Canada
Patrick Ravenscraft, 47, M, Teamster, $2100, $100, OH
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| Anecdote |
1863 |
Amherst, Portage County, Wisconsin [6] |
- The earliest available tax roll on Amherst township is dated 1863 and these are the taxpayers:
page 9, The Township of Amherst 247 Gasman, Nathan Harvey, Gard Harvey, John F. Hill-strom, Nick Hahn, R. Hartman, John Hoffman, NansHilstrom, J. P. Mickelson, J. M. Moyers, Orrin Maybee,
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| Census |
2 Jul 1870 |
Amherst, Portage County, Wisconsin [7] |
- Orrin Maybee, 50, M, W, Farmer, $4000, $400, Canada West
Edwin Maybee, 19, M, W, Farm Laborer, WI
Ellen Maybee, 17, F, W, At Home, WI, attended school
Sarina Maybee, 15, F, W, At School, WI, attended school
Frank Maybee, 13, M, W, At School, WI, attended school
Edsel York, 30, M, W, Farmer, NY
Cordelia York, 25, F, W, Keeping House, NY
Estella York, 3/12 born in Msrch, WI
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| Census |
15 Jun 1880 |
Amherst, Portage County, Wisconsin [8] |
- Orren Maybee, White, Male, 60, Head, Widower, Farmer, born in New York, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Vinnia Maybee, White, Female, 25, Daughter, Single, Keeping House, born in Wisconsin, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Edwin F. Maybee, White, Male, 29, Son, Married, Farmer, born in Wisconsin, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Elvira Maybee, White, Female, 30, Daughter-in-Law, Married, Keeping House, born in New York, Father born in New York, Mother born in New York
Della Maybee, White, Female, 6, Granddaughter, Single, born in Wisconsin, Father born in Wisconsin, Mother born in New York
Wilmer L. Maybee, White, Male, 3, Grandson, Single, born in Wisconsin, Father born in Wisconsin, Mother born in New York
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| Info |
- De Brenner, #101; Susan Edginton, #102
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| Obituary |
Stevens Point, Wisconsin [9] |
- Orrin Maybee passed away at his home just south of Amherst last Friday aged 70 years. He was one of the fist white settlers of Portage county, being the third white man to take up his home where Stevens Point now stands, and arriving here in the fall of 1883. In those days he was engaged in various lines of business, among which was the management of a hotel, which he built in company with Jas. Young on the site where the Curran house now stands at the present site of the Copps block). He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Samuel Marks of Antigo and two sons Edward of Amherst and Frank of Chicago
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| Obituary |
27 Dec 1890 |
Stevens Point, Wisconsin [10] |
- Died at his home near here, December 25, 1890, Orrin Maybee aged 69 years. Mr. Maybee is well known by all of the old-time pinery boys of forty years ago. He came to Stevens Point in 1837, and was in business there, up to about 1858, when he moved his farm two miles south of the village here, where he lived up to his death. In the fifties he had done extensive business in your city, and was a successful pilot on the Wisconse and Mississippi rivers. At one time, being well off in the world, but, as much through the heart as through the head, he lost most of his property before he moved to this place. Ever kind and generous, a hand ever open to a friend or enemy, even in distress no one can remember him but with the kindest of feelings, and with full hearts we can say, Good-bye old friend Orrin."
In another section of the same paper:
Orrin Maybee, one of the oldest settlers of the Wisconsin Pinery, died at his home in Amherst, Dec. 21, 1890, in the 70th year of his age. He was temperate in his habits, always enjoying good health until within the past year, since which time his health has gradually been failing, until he quietly passed away. All through his sickness he experienced but very little pain. He was extensively known throughout this section of the country and much respected by all who knew him. He was born in Jenesco, N.Y. [correct spelling is Genesco] December 28, 1821, and came to Green Bay in 1838 and to Portage County in May, 1839, when he assisted General Hathaway in making the United States Government survey of a strip of land, now Wausau. He also assisted Abraham Brawley in erecting the first saw-mill in this county, on Mill Creek. Also in erecting the old Conant mills below this city on the Wisconsin river, for Conant and Campbell. He was employed by George W. Stevens in making a canoe. This canoe was made at the foot of Conat Rapids near where Michael Cawley now resides. It was hauled to the head of the rapids where Stevens Point city now stands and where he had helped Stevens erect the first log shanty to hold his goods to be reshipped in said canoe to Big Bull Falls where he erected the first saw-mill there, in 1840. In 1841 the first fleet of lumber was run from Wausau. Stevens and his son Chester had lately come from Allegheny, N.Y., and from him the city of Stevens Point derived its name.
Mr. Maybee's first trip down the river on lumber was for David Hill in 1840, from Grand Rapids to St. Louis. On his return he helped pole two canoes from Gelena to Portage and Point Bass, when he helped Robert Wakely erect his house, the first one there. He was at Portage City when there was no buildings there except the fort, and was personally acquainted with Jefferson Davis and General Taylor. About 1846 the soldiers left for the Mexican War and never returned. Mr. Maybee resided at Stevens Point for twenty years and for fourteen years he was engaged in the mercantile business. He piloted on the river forty years and has made several trips for your subscriber. He moved on to this farm in Amherst in 1861, where he died. He leaves a son, Edwin, who resides on the old homestead, and a daughter at Rhinelander, Wis.
Your correspondent interviewed Mr. Maybee about three weeks ago. He said the old timers of '39 were about all gone. He could think of only A.B. Gilchrist and James Sitherwood of Stevens Point and Leander Trudell of Plover. Our old friend Orrin has passed down time's rapid river over the falls into the gulf of eternity, there to experience the reality of the new birth and the evolution of eternal matter; piloting and progressing his onward course through that unknown country following in the wake of the countless millions who have preceded him all seeking for that better land and home of God's eternal perfection still leaving behind him that long and endless river down which we and the millions yet to come must flat our frail barks with our varied experiences into the same unfathomable gulf from which no traveler returns to tell of his hopes and fears, their joys and sorrows, and at the closing scenes of this life would say:
'Lay me low, my work is done
I am weary, let me go
Where the wild flowers woo the sun,
Where the balmy breezes blow.
Lay me in my silent bed -
Where the wild flowers drooping grow
With all my friends who now are dead,
I am weary, let me go.'
S.A. Sherman'
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| Reference Number |
5130 |
| Death |
(21 Dec 1890 OR 25 Dec 1890) |
Amherst, Portage County, Wisconsin [11, 12] |
| Burial |
Lower Amherst Cemetery, Amherst Township, Portage County, Wisconsin [13] |
| Person ID |
I5103 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1820 - (21 Dec 1890 OR 25 Dec 1890)
