Harry Zalmon Mayne

(27 December 1874 - 22 March 1948)
Harry Zalmon Mayne|b. 1874\nd. 1948|p135.htm|James C. Mayne|b. 1843\nd. 1917|p140.htm|Josephine Burnett|b. 1850\nd. 1925|p139.htm|||||||Durrant Burnett|b. 1818\nd. 1892|p141.htm|Mary C. Smith|d. 1894|p147.htm|
Harry Mayne
Harry Zalmon Mayne was born on 27 December 1874 in Woodbury, Connecticut.1 (According to his obituary, he was born in Mount Kisco, New York).2 He was the son of James C. Mayne and Josephine Burnett.

Harry Zalmon Mayne appeared on the census of 7 June 1880 at Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in the household of his father.3 He resided in 1891 at Main Street, Old Katonah, Westchester County, New York.4 He graduated from the Katonah public schools in 1892.2 In 1893 he became a member of the Katonah Methodist Church.2 He graduated from the Potsdam, New York, State Teachers College, and then was a school teacher in Chappaqua, New York, for several years.2 According to Kenneth DeVoe, Harry Mayne started out teaching in a one-room school house.5 On 20 April 1896 he registered from Chappaqua for a compulsory four-day Teachers' Institute in White Plains, New York.6

Harry Zalmon Mayne married Mary Harriette Cargon, daughter of William H. Cargon and Harriett Ann Walpole, on 31 May 1898 at Katonah, Westchester County, New York.7,8 The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents on Cherry Street.8 William Henry Cargon, Mary's brother, was best man; Eva Matilda Troup was bridesmaid. The out-of-town guests mentioned in the newspaper announcement included Harry's aunt, Amelia Burnett Cox; Harry's first cousins, Elsworth Fowler and William H. Fowler, and their wives; Mary's aunt, Rachel Amelia Walpole Troup, and her daughters; and Mary's first cousins, Mary Roberta Walpole and Charles Rushmer Adams.

Harry Zalmon Mayne became a salesman and bookkeeper in the lumber and coal business of Louis [Lewis] W. Elliott.2 In 1906 this business became a partnership, Elliott and Mayne.2 Harry Mayne purchased the business from Lewis Elliott.9 In 1910 the company was incorporated as the Katonah Lumber, Coal and Feed Company, with Harry Mayne as its treasurer and general manager.2

On 12 October 1899, the Katonah Land Company gave a deed to Harry Z. Mayne for land in New Katonah (Liber 1542, p 163-66, County Office Building, White Plains, New York) with restrictive covenants; it required that he "shall commence to build a dwelling house on said premises within one year from the delivery of the deed..."10 This was presumably the large house on the hill above Katonah, at the end of the road now (in 2004) called Wildwood Road; a house labeled "H. Z. Maynze" is shown at this place on a 1911 map of Katonah. This house was originally by the mill pond in Old Katonah. Harry Mayne bought it at auction when Old Katonah was about to be flooded for the Croton Reservoir; it was cut into two parts and moved to his property on the hill.11 It was recently (April 2004) resold, and before that was a boarding house.11

Harry Mayne appears in a photograph together with William Walpole, William Cargon, William Cargon Jr., and Harriett (Walpole) Cargon.

Harry Zalmon Mayne appeared on the census of 23 June 1900 at Bedford Township, Westchester County, New York.12 He was a hostler according to the June 1900 census.12

Harry Zalmon Mayne appeared on the census of 1 June 1905 at Katonah, Westchester County, New York, where his occupation was given as bookkeeper.13

Harry Zalmon Mayne appeared on the census of 13 May 1910 at Bedford Township, Westchester County, New York, where his home was shown as owned and mortgaged.14 He was a merchant at a lumberyard according to the 1910 census.14

It was Martha DeVoe's understanding that Harry and Mary had no children of their own by choice, because they were second cousins (they both had William and Rachel Burnett as great-grandparents).15

Harry Zalmon Mayne appears in a group photograph of unknown date, possibly taken about 1915.

Harry Zalmon Mayne appeared on the census of 1 June 1915 at Edgemont Road, Katonah, Westchester County, New York, where his occupation was shown as Manager (Coal & Feed).16

Harry Zalmon Mayne was installed on 5 January 1917 as an elected officer of the Kisco Lodge, F. & A. M.17 Harry Mayne helped start the Northern Westchester Bank in Katonah in 1918. He served as vice-president of the bank (1918-1932), president (1933-1935), and chairman of the board (1936-1942). Because of prolonged absences from Katonah, he resigned as director and chairman of the board effective 31 July, 1942.18 In 1922 Harry Zalmon Mayne became president of the Katonah Lumber, Coal and Feed Company, and in 1929 he retired from active participation and sold his interest in the company to Frank M. Dain, Jr.2

Harry Zalmon Mayne and Mary Harriette Cargon lived at 43 Edgemont Road, Katonah, Westchester County, New York, beginning in October 1925.19

Harry Zalmon Mayne appears in a photograph of a family picnic taken possibly about 1930.

Harry Zalmon Mayne appeared on the census of 9 April 1930 at Edgemont Road, Katonah, Bedford Township, Westchester County, New York, in which his house is recorded as owned, with value of 10,000.20 He was a retail dealer at a lumber office according to the April 1930 census.20 He and William Henry Cargon were owners of the Ridgefield Lumber Company (Ridgefield, Connecticut) which they sold to the Ridgefield Supply Company in 1933.21

Harry Zalmon Mayne appears in a family photo taken 5 July 1936 at Harry and Mary Mayne's beach house in Morningside, Milford, Connecticut.

Harry Zalmon Mayne appears in a family photograph taken probably in summer 1943.

Harry Zalmon Mayne appears in a photograph of a family picnic at 36 Davis Avenue, White Plains, New York, probably in summer (4 July?) 1944.

At the closing session of the annual meeting of the New York Conference of the Methodist Church, 23 May 1947 in Poughkeepsie, New York, Harry Z. Mayne was elected as an alternate delegate to the General Conference and as a delegate to the Jurisdictional Conference.22 He was a chairman of Water Commissioners of the Katonah Water District,23 and at the time of his death was chairman of the Board of Directors of the Katonah Methodist Church.23,2

Harry Zalmon Mayne died on 22 March 1948 at age 73 at a hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, of a heart attack suffered on 19 March, 1948.7,23,21,24,2 He and Mary (Cargon) Mayne had been going to St. Petersburg for many years; they had traveled there by car about seven weeks before his death, and had been joined the previous week by Marion DeVoe.2 The funeral was at 2 pm on 27 March 1948 at 43 Edgemont Road, Katonah, Westchester County, New York; the Rev. M. Douglas Blair, pastor of the Katonah Methodist Church officiated, assisted by the Rev. D. George Davies, former pastor.23,21,24,2 He was buried on 27 March 1948 in lot 1350 (Walpole plot), Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, Westchester County, New York.25,26 John Albert Tuttle sent a letter to Mary Mayne in May 1948, describing Harry Mayne as "one of the finest men I have known."27

Citations

  1. [S7] Family records from a bible that apparently belonged to the Mayne family.
  2. [S357] Katonah Record, 25 March 1948, 1.
  3. [S239] James C. Mayne household, 1880 U.S. census, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Woodbury, enumeration district 28, page 499A, dwelling house 120, family 131.
  4. [S316] Directory, 1891-92, Katonah.
  5. [S520] Taped interview, Frank Kenneth DeVoe, 26 July 1990.
  6. [S714] The New York Times, 21 April, 1896, 9.
  7. [S8] Family records from a bible possibly belonging to the Cargon family.
  8. [S203] Katonah Times, 3 June 1898.
  9. [S713] Kelloggs & Lawrence Hardware Store, online at <http://www.kelloggsandlawrence.com/…>.
  10. [S180] Frances R. Duncombe, Katonah, 341.
  11. [S371] Interview, Katharine (Barrett) Kelly, 24 and 26 April 2004.
  12. [S46] Harry Z. Mayne household, 1900 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Bedford Township, Enumeration District 56, page 34A (stamped), Sheet 23, family 503.
  13. [S577] 1905 New York state census, Westchester County, Town of Bedford, fourth election district, page 9, lines 1-4.
  14. [S256] Harry Z. Mayne household, 1910 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Bedford Township, enumeration district 4, page 15B, dwelling 183, family 324.
  15. [S74] Interview, Martha (Josselyn) DeVoe, 25 August 2002.
  16. [S573] 1915 New York state census, Westchester County, Bedford township, Election District 4, page 25, lines 3-5.
  17. [S16] Katonah Record, Friday, January 5, 1917, 8.
  18. [S223] Harry Z. Mayne, Announcement, Northern Westchester Bank, 1942.
  19. [S251] Taped interview, Marion DeVoe and Rachel (Troup) Watkins, 26 December 1976.
  20. [S61] Harry Mayne household, 1930 U.S. census, Westchester County, New York, Bedford Township, Enumeration District 95, page 266 (stamped), sheet 2A, dwelling house 27, family 33.
  21. [S226] The Ridgefield Press, unknown date, 3.
  22. [S277] Middletown Times Herald, 24 May 1947, 1.
  23. [S225] Unknown newspaper, unknown date, unknown page.
  24. [S264] New York Times, 25 March 1948, 27.
  25. [S231] Record of Interments, Lot 1350, Kensico Cemetery, Vahalla, New York.
  26. [S232] Gravestone inscriptions, lot 1350, Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, New York.
  27. [S222] Letter, John Tuttle to Mary (Cargon) Mayne, 5 May 1948.

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