Walter E. Maynard
Walter Effingham Maynard (November 17, 1871 – March 4, 1925) was an American banker and real estate investor.
Walter E. Maynard | |
|---|---|
| Born | Walter Effingham Maynard November 17, 1871 |
| Died | March 4, 1925 (aged 53) |
| Education | Berkeley School |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Spouse |
Eunice Ives (m. 1903) |
| Children | Walter Maynard Audrey Maynard Auchincloss |
| Parent(s) | Effingham Maynard Helen Maria Hollister |
| Relatives | Oliver Platt (great-grandson) |
| Awards | Légion d'honneur |
Early life
Maynard was born in Manhattan on November 17, 1871. He was a son of New York publisher Effingham Maynard, of Effingham Maynard and Co., and Helen Maria (née Hollister) Maynard (1836–1916).[1] His brother was Effingham Maynard Jr., who died unmarried.[2]
His maternal grandparents were Gratia (née Buell) Hollister and Edwin M. Hollister, a New York City businessman, and his maternal aunt was Sarah Buell Hollister (the wife of Broughton Harris, Secretary of the Utah Territory).[3]
Maynard was educated at the Berkeley School before attending Harvard University, from where he graduated in 1893.[1]
Career
Maynard served as president of the Dranyam Realty Corporation,[4] and was a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company, the Detroit, Hillsdale and South Western Railroad.[5]
An active participant in civic movements in New York City, he served as a trustee of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York, the New York Orthopedic Dispensary and Hospital, and the Fifth Avenue Association. He was made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.[5]
Personal life
On April 19, 1903, Maynard was married to Eunice Ives (1872–1942), a daughter of Eleanor Anderson (née Bissell) Ives and Brayton Ives, who had served as President of the New York Stock Exchange, Northern Pacific Railway, and the Metropolitan Trust Company.[6] Together, they were the parents of:
- Walter Maynard (1906–1971),[7] an investment banker who married Eileen Burden (1911–1970), a daughter of Arthur Scott Burden and the Hon. Cynthia Burke Roche (her brother, Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy, was the maternal grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales),[8] in 1932.[9] They later divorced and she married Thomas Robins in 1963.[10][11]
- Audrey Maynard (1908–1996), who married John Winthrop Auchincloss (1912–1990), a brother of Louis Auchincloss, in 1941.[12]
Maynard died at 114 East 40th Street, his residence in Manhattan, on March 4, 1925. His funeral was held at Grace Church.[13] His widow lived in New York at 730 Park Avenue until her death on June 5, 1942.[14]
Residences
In 1916, the Maynard estate in Brookville, New York known as Haut Bois was completed. The house was designed by Ogden Codman Jr. in the French style of Louis XIV's hunting lodge at the Palace of Versailles.[15] Maynard was a Francophile and had known Codman for some time, the two of them collaborating to create the house. Jacques Greber designed the garden, reflecting pool and fountain.[16]
Descendants
Through his son Walter, he was a grandfather of Sheila Maynard (1936–2018), a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad,[17] married Nicholas Platt,[7] a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines,[18] in 1957,[19] and had three sons: Adam Platt, a New York magazine restaurant critic, Oliver Platt (b. 1960), the actor, and Nicholas Platt Jr. Also through his son Walter, he was a grandfather to Walter Maynard Jr., an investment advisor with Morgan Stanley who married Pamela S. Silver in 1954 and was the father of John Maynard.[20][21]
References
- of 1893, Harvard College (1780-) Class (1895). Secretary's Fifth Report. Crimson Printing Company. p. 121. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- New York Supplement. West Publishing Company. 1920. p. 330. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- Weeks, Lyman Horace (1898). Prominent Families of New York: Being an Account in Biographical Form of Individuals and Families Distinguished as Representatives of the Social, Professional and Civic Life of New York City. Historical Company. p. 286. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide. C.W. Sweet & Company. 1922. p. 482. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- Hamersly, Lewis Randolph; Leonard, John W.; Mohr, William Frederick; Holmes, Frank R.; Knox, Herman Warren; Downs, Winfield Scott (1924). Who's who in New York City and State. L.R. Hamersly Company. p. 869. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- "Gen. Brayton Ives Financier, Is Dead" (PDF), The New York Times, New York, New York, 23 October 1914
- Times, Special To The New York (29 November 1971). "Walter Maynard Is Dead at 65; Leader in Securities Industry". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- "Mrs. Burden To Wed Guy F. Cary Today. Widow of Arthur Scott Burden Will Marry New York Lawyer at Newport. Bride Is the Only Daughter of Mrs. Burke-Roche and a Sister of Baron Fermoy". The New York Times. 24 July 1922. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
The social colony here received a big surprise today when it became known that Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden of 147 East Sixty-first Street, New York, and Guy Fairfax Cary of 54 Park Avenue, New York, are to be married at one o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Elm Court, the Summer home of Mrs. Burden's mother on Bellevue Avenue.
- "MISS BURDEN WEDS WALTER MAYNARD; Elaborate Ceremony Takes Place in the Church of the Heavenly Rest. BRIDE HAS 9 ATTENDANTS The Wedding Is Followed by a Reception at the Home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fairfax Gary". The New York Times. 10 February 1932. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- "Cynthia Roche". Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton University. 24 May 1963. p. 19.
- "Thomas Robins Jr., Company Chairman. Headed Hewitt-Robins, Producers of Synthetic Rubber". The New York Times. 29 May 1977. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- TIMES, Special to THE NEW YORK (29 June 1941). "Audrey Maynard Married at Home; Has Three Attendants at Her Wedding in Jericho, L. I., to John W. Auchincloss". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- "DIED -- MAYNARD". The New York Times. 5 March 1925. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- "MRS. WALTER I. MAYNARD; Widow of Banker Was Daughter of Northern Pacific's Ex-Head". The New York Times. 6 June 1942. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- "HAUT BOIS". househistree.com. HouseHistree. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- Chamoff, Lisa (April 29, 2015). "Chateau-style home for $16.5M". Newsday. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
- "Weddings; Camilla Campbell, Oliver Platt". The New York Times. 13 September 1992. Retrieved 10 March 2008.
- Kipen, David (3 April 1995). "Oliver Platt: from second banana to pick of the bunch". L.A. Life. Los Angeles Daily News. p. L1.
- Times, Special to The New York (29 June 1957). "SHEILA MAYNARD MARRIED UPSTATE; Attended by 4 at Wedding in Rhinebeck to Nicholas Platt, Harvard Alumnus". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
- Times, Special to The New York (8 August 1954). "PAMELA S. SILVER BECOMES ENGAGED Former Wellesley Student to Be Bride of Lieut, Walter Maynard Jr. of Marines". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- "Audrey Maynard Becomes the Bride of Kaighn Smith Jr". The New York Times. 19 September 1982.