Hial Nicholas Maybee [36113]

   Another name for Hial was Niel Nicholas.⁵²⁰⁴

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Land, 1 Apr 1857, Stevens Point, Portage County, Wisconsin, USA. ⁹⁴¹⁸ Purchased 40 acres. Description: Aliquot Parts Block # Base
Line Fractional Section Township Range Section # 1 12 4th PM -
1831 Minnesota/Wisconsin No 23 N 9 E 3

• Census, 1870, Novato Township, Marin County, California, USA. ⁹⁴¹⁹ Hiall Maybee, 35, M, Dairyman, 3000, 500, Canada

• No Name, 1880, Township 2, Amador County, California, USA. ⁶¹⁸⁸ Hial Nicholas Maybee and Susan G. Carpenter appeared on the
census of 1880 Township 2, Amador County, CaliforniaHial N.
Maybee, Head, M, M, W, 45, CAN, Carpenter, Fa: NY, Mo: NY
Susan G. Maybee, Wife, F, M, W, 33, ME, Keeping House, Fa: ME,
Mo: ME
Herbert Maybee, Son, M, S, W, 7, CA, At Home, Fa: CAN, Mo: ME

• Anecdote, 1891. ³⁶¹⁸ Hial N. Maybee, nurseryman and orchardist, near Lakeport, was
born in Canada, Aug. 06, 1835. His parents were natives of
Duchess County, new York, and moved to Canadian then back to
Michigan.
Hial received a common -school education while at home with his
parents in Michigan. He afterward attended Bacon, Bryant and
Stratton's Mercantile College in Cincinnati, where graduated in
1859.He then went to Steven's Point Wisconsin, where he engaged
in the wholesale lumber business, in partnership with his
brother. He remained in Steven's Point until 1865. In the
spring of that
year he sold out and went to New York city, where he took
passage on the Steamer "Golden Rule", which was wrecked on
Ronkador, on French Keys, May 29. There were 1000 passengers'
aboard, all of whom excepting one escaped to the reef, where
they subsisted of eleven days. On June 9 they were rescued by
the gunboat Georgia, and taken to Aspinwall. from where they
came to California and arrived in San Francisco, July 1. Mr.
Maybee first settled in Nevada, Marin County, where he bought
land and engaged in dairying for seven years. In 1872 he sold
our and went to Alameda, where he engaged in contracting and
building. In 1876 he went to Buckeye Valley, five miles west of
Ione in Amador County, where he engaged in farming and nursery
business. He also worked at some carpentering, having secured
several contracts from the railroad company. In 1881 he
returned to Alameda, where he again followed the business of
contracting and building for two years. In 1883 he came to Lake
county and bought land two miles south of Lakeport, where he
now resides. He has forty-one acres of land, which he devotes
principally to nursery and small fruits. He has a nursery stock
of abut 50,000 trees. He has one acre planted in strawberries
of different varieties, which yield and enormous quantity of
luscious fruit. He also has blackberries, currants and other
small fruits, the acreage of which is increasing each year. He
has tow fine, flowing artesian well on his premises; also an
excellent spring from which he conducts water to his residence
through pipes for general uses.
Mr. Maybee has been married twice. He first wife was a Mrs.
Carpenter, of Lincoln County Maine, to whom he married in 1873,
and who lived only a short time after their marriage. In 1885
he was married to Mrs. Myers, a native of Germany. She had two
daughters from her first marriage, who are living in the old
country. Mr. Maybee is a member of IOOF and AOUW.

Hial married Susan G. Carpenter [32179] [MRIN: 551605776] in 1873.³⁶¹⁸ (Susan G. Carpenter [32179] was born between 1846 and 1847 in Lincoln County, Maine ⁶¹⁸⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1880, Township 2, Amador County, California, USA. ⁶¹⁸⁸ Hial N. Maybee, Head, M, M, W, 45, CAN, Carpenter, Fa: NY, Mo:
NY
Susan G. Maybee, Wife, F, M, W, 33, ME, Keeping House, Fa: ME,
Mo: ME
Herbert Maybee, Son, M, S, W, 7, CA, At Home, Fa: CAN, Mo: ME

Hial next married Mary L. Myers [24482] [MRIN: 551605777] in 1885.³⁶¹⁸ (Mary L. Myers [24482] was born in Sep 1843 in Germany ³⁶²⁰.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, Jun 1900, Township 4, Lake County, California, USA. ³⁶²⁰ Hial M Maybee, Head, W, M, Aug 1834, 65, M, 19, Canada, Canada,
Canada, immigrated in 1847, Farmer, owns farm free of mortgage
Mary L Maybee, Wife, W, F, Sept 1843, 56, M, 19, Germany,
Germany, Germany, immigrated in 1878

• Census, Apr 1910, Township 4, Lake County, California, USA. ³⁶²¹ Hial N Maybee, Head, M, W, 75, M2, 24, Canada, New York,
Canada, own income
Mary L. Maybee, F, W, 68, M2, Germany, Germany, Germany

• Census, Jan 1920, Armstrong Street, Lakeport, Lake County, California. ³⁶²² Hial N Maybee, Head, M, W, 85, M, immigrated in 1844, American
Extract, Canada, New York, Canada, , owns home free of mortgage
Mary L Maybee, Wife, F, W, 76, M, immigrated in 1871,
naturalized in 1884, Germany, Germany, Germany