Mayne, Winfield S. (1833-1923)

MAYNE

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Date: 1/7/2009 at 13:43:56

Winfield Scott Mayne
Oct 15, 1833 - Mar 6, 1923

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.38, Council Bluffs)
W. S. Mayne, attorney, Council Bluffs, was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1835; removed with his parents to Ottumwa, Iowa, in the fall of 1848, and thence removed to Van Buren County, Iowa; his father was elected Judge of Van Buren County, and remoevd to Keosauqua, Iowa, in the fall of 1851. Our subject attended a private school in Keosauqua, and, in 1853, entered the Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant, from which he graduated in 1856, he being the first graduate of that institution. He began reading law with C. C. Nourse, afterward finishing with Hon. G. G. Wright, then sitting on the supreme bench of iowa, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He began the practice of his profession in Keosauqua, where he remained until 1872, when he removed to Red Oak, Iowa, where he formed a partnership with the present Attorney General of the State - Smith McPherson. In the fall of 1875, he came to Council Bluffs, where he took charge of the business of the law firm of Baldwin & Wright, while the latter was attending the session of the Legislature. The following spring, Mr. Mayne formed a partnership with George F. Wright, and continued in the firm till July, 1877, when he formed a partnership with Marshal Key, and under the firm name of Mayne & Key, carried on the practice of law till August, 1880, when Mr. Mayne took up the practice of Mr. Ross, the latter having gone to Iowa City. Mr. Mayne is now located in L. W. Ross' old office, corner of Main street and Broadway, Council Bluffs. In May, 1864, he married Miss R. E. Mangum, a native of Van Buren County, Iowa. Mr. Mayne was a member of the City Council in 1880 and 1881, and, in the spring of 1882, was elected City Attorney on the Republican ticket, the first election held under the new charter.

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.285)
WINFIELD SCOTT MAYNE, one of the well-known lawyers of Council Bluffs, has been a member of the bar of Pottawattamie County since 1875. Mr. MAYNE is a native of Clark County, Ohio, where he was born October 15, 1833. His grandfather, Adam MAYNE, was a pioneer of Clark County where he settled in 1819. He was a native of Maryland and represented an old family of that state. He was a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a wholesale grocer at Georgetown when that war broke out, and his property was burned by the British troops. As stated, he settled in Clark county, Ohio, in 1819, where he continued to live until his death. The father of the subject of this sketch was Emmanuel MAYNE, born at Georgetown, Maryland, in 1805, having been about fourteen years of age when his father removed with his family to Ohio. He married Miss McGRUDER, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. She was born in Loudoun County, Maryland. Her father, Ninian McGRUDER, was a native of the north of Ireland, coming to the United States when a young man and settling in Loudoun County. He married Grace TOWNSEND, born in England, who died when her daughter, the mother of our subject, was but eleven years old. The maternal grandfather of Mr. MAYNE lived to an advanced age, dying in Loudoun County. Emmanuel MAYNE obtained a good education early in life, and was for a time engaged in teaching. He settled down to the business of merchandising, which he followed for a number of years. He emigrated with his family to Iowa in 1848, but two years after it became a state, remaining in Ottumwa until the following spring. He settled down on a tract of land in Van Buren County. Here, as a pioneer, he did much toward opening up and developing that new country. He was a prominent and well-known citizen. In 1851 he was elected County Judge, and remained in that capacity six years, doing all the county business as was customary at that time. When the War of the Rebellion came on, though then fifty-seven years of age, he resolved to enter the service in defense of the old flag. He accordingly entered the Army as Captain, in the Third Iowa Cavalry, and was killed in a battle with the rebels at Kirksville, Missouri, August 6, 1862. His wife survived her husband until 1870, when she died at the home of her son, the subject of this sketch, who was then residing at Keosauqua, Van Buren County. Emmanuel MAYNE and wife were the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters. The eldest in the family, Virginia, became the wife of B.C. LONG and resides at London, Madison County, Ohio; she never removed to Iowa. Philander T. is a resident of Salt Lake, Utah. The subject of this sketch is the next in the order of birth. Leroy was a member of the Second Volunteer infantry early in the War of the Rebellion and later was transferred to the Third Iowa Cavalry, where his father was serving. In January 1863 he was transferred to the Mississippi Marine Brigade, as Adjutant, with the rank of First Lieutenant. In April of the same year, while in command of a flotilla and passing up the river, the boat of which he was aboard ran on an obstruction in the river, and while he was assisting to free the boat, he was thrown into the river, and falling between two boats which were nearly in contact, was drowned. His body was never found, or if found was never identified. Thus, the father and brother of Mr. MAYNE lost their lives in the service of their country. The next in the family in order of birth is Carrie, wife of J. E. POLLOCK, a well-known Lawyer of Bloomington, Illinois.
The subject of this sketch received his early education in the public schools of Van Buren County, and later entered the Iowa Wesleyan University at Mt. Pleasant, where he graduated in 1856, having been the first graduate of that institution. He began the study of law under Judge C. C. NOURSE, and later with Judge G. G. WRIGHT, now also of Des Moines. He was admitted to the bar in October 1858. He began practice at Keosauqua, where he continued until 1872 when he located at Red Oak, where he practiced his profession until he came to Council Bluffs. At Red Oak, he was associated with Smith McPHERSON. On coming to Council Bluffs, he became associated with George F. WRIGHT, and subsequently was a co-partner of Marshall KEY. He was more recently associated with the Hon. L. W. ROSS, and when that gentleman was elected Chancellor, he took full charge of the legal business of the firm. Since 1884, he has been associated with F.M. HUNTER, but since 1886 the firm name has been MAYNE & HAZELTON.
Mr. MAYNE was married in Van Buren County to Miss Ruth Ellen MANGUM, daughter of A. W. MANGUM, who settled in Van Buren County in 1836, where Mrs. MAYNE was born in 1837. Mr. MANGUM is still a resident of Van Buren County, but the mother of Mrs. MAYNE died when the latter was a child. Mr. And Mrs. MAYNE have five children, three sons and two daughters. Joel H. is the eldest of the children; George H. was born in September 1869. He studied law with his father, and graduated in the law department of the Iowa State University in 1889. The younger children are Grade, Carl, and Ruth. Politically, Mr. MAYNE is a Republican, and has always affiliated with that great political organization, his first presidential vote having been cast for John C. Fremont in 1856. Mr. MAYNE was assistant revenue collector for Van Buren County from 1863 to 1866. He is, by all esteemed as an able lawyer and a progressive citizen. While in Keosauqua, he joined the Masons and attained to the Royal Arch degree.