George Allen Maybee [35797]

  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:

• No Name, 1861, Brock Township, Ontario County, Ontario, Canada. ⁹¹⁴⁸ George Allen Maybee appeared on the census of 1861 in the
household of Elizabeth A Maybee Brock Township, Ontario County,
Ontario, Canada

• Residence, 1868, Woodville, , Ontario, Canada. ⁴³³

• No Name, 1871, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. ⁹⁰⁹⁹ George Allen Maybee and Abigail Irish appeared on the census of
1871 Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada7,
George Mabee, M, 26, M, Ontario, Ch of England, Inn Keeper
8, Abigail Mabee, F, 27, M
9, Minnie Mabee, F,, 1, S
10, Isaac Walton, M, 45, England, Labourer
Tenant Lot 6, Concession 15, 3 acres; 1 horse, 1 colt, 2 cows,
1 swine

• Land, Bet 1879 and 1883, Woodville, , Ontario, Canada. ⁴³³ active in Woodville mortgages

• No Name, 1881, Eldon, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. ⁹¹²² George Allen Maybee and Abigail Irish appeared on the census of
1881 Eldon, Victoria County, Ontario, CanadaGeorge Maybee, M,
M, 36, Irish, Ontario, , Trader, , Church of England
Abigail Maybee, F, M, 36, Scottish, Ontario, , , , Church of
England
George Maybee, M, , 8, Irish, Ontario, , , , Church of England
Caroline Maybee, F, , 2, Irish, Ontario, , , , Church of
England

• Residence, Bet 1887 and 1891, Lot 1 Con 1, Eldon Tp, , Ontario, Canada. ⁴³³ active in Eldon Tp mortgages

• Will, 26 Nov 1889. ⁴³³ Will Available

• No Name, 1891. ⁴³³ His estate was probated 1891 . Son George willed Lot 1,2 Con 4
Thorah Tp , and daughter Caroline willed Lot 1 Con 1 Eldon Tp,
Ont and Woodville Vill Lot #6

• Probate, 1891. ⁴³³ Son George willed Lot 1,2 Con 4 Thorah Tp , and daughter
Caroline willed Lot 1 Con 1 Eldon Tp, Ont and Woodville Vill
Lot #6

• No Name, 1924, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada. ⁹¹²⁵ George Allen Maybee witnessed George Allen Maybee Ambition,
diligence, initiative and resourcefulness have been the four
outstanding features of the exceptionally interesting career of
George A. Maybee, today the president and general manager of
the largest wholesale firm in Western Canada dealing in shoes
and men's furnishings. Wealth and position played no part in
his early career, for he was left an orphan as a young boy
without any near relatives who could take the place of the
father and mother he lost. His opportunities he made himself;
he did not wait for them to knock. Beginning as a clerk in a
store and equipped with scarcely more than the minimum of
education, he has advanced stead- ily, though at first slowly,
to a position of leadership in the trade circles of this
province and has an influence that is felt throughout the
Canadian west. The son of George A and Abigild (Irish) Maybee,
George A. Maybee was born on the 23d of May, 1873, in
Woodville, Victoria county, Ontario, in the house in which his
mother was born. Both his parents were natives of that province
and lived there all of their lives. The father was a private
banker and broker by occupation, a Liberal in politics and
fraternally identified with the United Workmen. After the death
of his parents George A. Maybee of this review was cared for by
the board of the Methodist church, which had been the church of
his father and mother during their lifetime. In addition to the
work of the common schools he was given a two-year course in a
high school, after which he set out to earn his own way in the
world. His first position was that of a clerk in a general
store, at which he worked for four years, following which he
went to Saint Catharines and there spent four more years
clerking in a shoe store, and began to learn something of the
shoe trade-knowledge that was to be very valuable to him in
after years. From Saint Catharines Mr. Maybee came west to
Brandon and obtained a position as a clerk in a store, and
after thus serving for nine months he acquired some stock in
the company, starting out in a small way as a partner in the
business. Fifteen years ago he came to Moose Jaw, where he
bought a third interest in the firm of Mitchell & Hembroff,
which thereupon became Mitchell, Hembroff & Maybee. This was a
gent's furnishing concern doing a retail business. The second
year he was in the company it opened a wholesale branch, which
grew to be the most important part of the business. Much of its
success was due to Mr. Maybee's work as a traveling salesman,
for he went on the road and represented his firm during the
period that this wholesale business was being worked up. Ten
years ago he bought out the interests of Mr. Mitchell and Mr.
Hembroff and in 1916 disposed of the retail department in order
to concentrate his entire energy upon the rapidly growing
wholesale trade. He now distributes shoes and men's
furnishings, exclusively, conducting the largest business of
the kind in western Canada. Mr. Maybee is the president and
general manager of the firm, which is capitalized at three
hundred thousand dollars; Clifford Baird is vice president and
sales manager; Mack Cockrane is secretary; and Robert Martyn is
treasurer. In addition to these officers the name of M. S.
Maybee appears on the board of directors. The concern owns its
building, a four-story reinforced concrete structure of
fireproof construction. In its erection all the modern
scientific fireproof and fire-resisting methods of construction
and materials were employed, so that it is now insured at the
lowest rates in effect in the entire province. The company is,
at the present time, the distributing agent for the Partridge
Rubber Goods, Hurlbert Shoes, Kant Krack Kollars, Snag Proof
Overalls, Lang Shirts, Hucks Gloves, Knitwell Underwear,
Telford & Child's Mackinaws, Ever- wear Shoes, Tuxedo Shoes,
Rhoda Shoes, and Sturdy Shoes. These lines are now carried by
seven of Mr. Maybee's traveling salesmen, who are kept busy all
of the time covering Saskatchewan, Alberta and British
Columbia. On the 14th of August, 1903, Mr. Maybee was married
to Miss Margaret Shearer Black of Saint Catharines, Ontario.
Mrs. Maybee was educated there, where she spent most of her
girlhood. Mr. and Mrs. Maybee have a son: George Edward, five
years of age. The Maybees are members of the Methodist church.
Mrs. Maybee is especially interested in social work for girls
and young women and for several years has been the president of
the local Young Women's Christian Association. Mr. Maybee's
social work has been done in the Masonic order, in which he is
identified with the York Rite and the Scottish Rite and he is a
Noble of the Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to the independent
Order of Odd Fellows, with which he has been associated for
twenty-three years. His influence has been a potent factor in
the development of these two fraternities along constructive
lines in this city and he will ever be regarded as one of their
most valuable members. He is likewise a member of the Rotary
Club and the Prairie Club of Moose Jaw. Farming is his "hobby"
and he takes almost as much pride in the fact that his farm is
one of the finest in Saskatchewan as in his enormous business
organization. The chief feature of his farm is a herd of
twenty-six full-blooded Herefords, the finest in the Dominion,
which are the basis of his cattle-raising activities. He raises
and sells this pure-bred stock and in this connection has been
active in raising the standards of farm stock throughout this
section, a movement that is of no slight significance in the
history of agriculture in western Canada. In all of his
accomplishments one can see evidences of Mr. Maybee's
outstanding ability as an executive. He possesses that rare
power to in- spire confidence in others and harmonize varied
interests so as to achieve cooperation on all sides. While he
says, most generously, in his praise of his fellow workers,
that he has the most loyal staff of assistants that any man
ever had, the onlooker is a bit inclined to wonder if this
exceptional loyalty is not inspired by an exceptional man 1924
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada

George married Abigail Irish [35770] [MRIN: 551605980] on 21 Jul 1868 in Ontario County, Ontario, Canada.⁹¹²⁹ (Abigail Irish [35770] was born in 1846 in Woodville, , Ontario, Canada ⁴³³ and died on 22 Dec 1893 in Woodville, , Ontario, Canada ⁴³³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Census, 1871, Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. ⁹⁰⁹⁹ 7, George Mabee, M, 26, M, Ontario, Ch of England, Inn Keeper
8, Abigail Mabee, F, 27, M
9, Minnie Mabee, F,, 1, S
10, Isaac Walton, M, 45, England, Labourer
Tenant Lot 6, Concession 15, 3 acres; 1 horse, 1 colt, 2 cows,
1 swine

• Census, 1881, Eldon, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. ⁹¹²² George Maybee, M, M, 36, Irish, Ontario, , Trader, , Church of
England
Abigail Maybee, F, M, 36, Scottish, Ontario, , , , Church of
England
George Maybee, M, , 8, Irish, Ontario, , , , Church of England
Caroline Maybee, F, , 2, Irish, Ontario, , , , Church of
England

  Marriage Notes:

George Maybee, b. Canada, res: Woodville, 24 s/o Tobias Maybee
& Abigail, married Abigail Irish, 22, b. Canada, Res:
Woodville, Eldryde? Irish & Margaret Jane, 21 Jul 1868,
Ontario Co., Ontario