Fred I. Maxwell Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: MAXWELL
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1165

   FRED I. MAXWELL, formerly a well known and respected citizen of
Portsmouth, N, H., was born in East Boston, Mass., October 11, 1873, and
died at York Hospital, York, Me., June 14, 1912. He was a son of Oliver
and Mary ( Fry ) Maxwell and was educated in the common schools of Bos-
ton, finishing his schooling with a commercial course. He then learned the
printer's trade, in which he was subsequently engaged, or was connected
with, for the rest of his life. For four years he had charge of the linotype
department of a printing house in Gloucester, Mass., and for an equal length
of time was connected with the Portsmouth Chronicle. He then became a 
partner with Myron Cox in the York Transcript, of York, Me., which they
conducted together for two years, or until the time of his death. Mr. Max-
well was a Republican in politics. He was a 32d degree Mason, a member
of the Eastern Star Lodge, of the Odd Fellows' Lodge at Boston, and the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Portsmouth; he also belonged
to the Warwick Club. As a citizen he was broad minded and public spirited,
doing his duty as he saw it, and by his death the county lost a useful and
worthy citizen.
   Mr. Maxwell was married in 1904 to Alice M. Downs, of Portsmouth,
N. H., a daughter of the late John O. and Sarah P. (Lear) Downs, the father
being a native of the Isle of Shoals and the mother of Rye, N. H. From an
obituary published on the occasion of Mr. Downs' death, which took place
January 27, 1910, we gather the following facts: John 0. Downs, born
September 10, 1841, was pre-eminently a self-made man. He was given but
an ordinary common school, education, but being intelligent and industrious,
he improved his opportunities and became a man of ample means. His early
manhood was devoted to the sea, and for a number of years he had charge
of fishing vessels. He then entered into business as a fish dealer, having a
store in Portsmouth, in which city he was both well known and highly es-
teemed. He was very charitable to the poor, but his charitable acts were
quietly performed, and few knew of them but himself and the recipients of
his favors. He was affiliated fraternally with the Odd Fellows in Ports-
mouth, and in politics was a democrat. He was a man of quiet tastes, never
courting publicity, but devoted to his home, his family and his business; yet
his good deeds were not unnoticed and when he died all who knew him felt
that Portsmouth had lost one of its best and noblest citizens. By his wife
Sarah, who died February 19, 1911, he was the father of two children: Hat-
tie, who died at the age of sixteen years, and Mrs. Maxwell.

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