Lake-Marin-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Maybee, Hial N. 1835 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

HIAL N. MAYBEE, nurseryman and orchardist, near Lakeport, was born in Canada,
August 6, 1835. His parents were natives of Dutchess County, New York, and moved
to Canada, then back to Michigan.

  Hial received a common-school education while at home with his parents in
Michigan. He afterward attended Bacon, Bryant & Stratton's Mercantile College in
Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1859. He then went to Stevens' Point,
Wisconsin, where he engaged in the wholesale lumber business, in partnership
with his brother. He remained in business in Stevens' 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 1,000 passengers on board, all of whom excepting one escaped to
the reef, where they subsisted for 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 out 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 some at 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 about 50,000
trees. He has one acre planted in strawberries of different varieties, which
yield an enormous quantity of luscious fruit. He also has blackberries, currants
and other small fruits, the acreage of which is increasing each year. He has two
fine, flowing artesian wells on his premises; also an excellent spring from
which he conducts water to his residence through pipes for general uses.

  Mr. Maybee has been twice married. His first wife was a Mrs. Carpenter, of
Lincoln County, Maine, to whom he was married in 1878, and who lived only a
short time after their marriage. In 1885 he was married to Mrs. Meyers, a native
of Germany. She has two daughters from her first marriage, who are living in the
old country. Mr. Maybee is a member of the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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