Walter E. Maynard

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 ({{nee}} Hollister) Maynard (1836–1916).{{cite book |last1=of 1893 |first1=Harvard College (1780-) Class |title=Secretary's Fifth Report |date=1895 |publisher=Crimson Printing Company |page=121 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8InAAAAYAAJ&dq=Walter+Effingham+Maynard&pg=PA121 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en}} His brother was Effingham Maynard Jr., who died unmarried.{{cite book |title=New York Supplement |date=1920 |publisher=West Publishing Company |page=330 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=82JEAQAAMAAJ&dq=Walter+Effingham+Maynard&pg=PA330 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en}}

His maternal grandparents were Gratia ({{nee}} 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).{{cite book |last1=Weeks |first1=Lyman Horace |title=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 |date=1898 |publisher=Historical Company |page=286 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PyRKAQAAMAAJ&dq=Sarah+Buell+Hollister+harris&pg=PA286 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en}}

Maynard was educated at the Berkeley School before attending Harvard University, from where he graduated in 1893.

Maynard served as president of the Dranyam Realty Corporation,{{cite book |title=Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide |date=1922 |publisher=C.W. Sweet & Company |page=482 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n4D9JDAXcawC |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en}} and was a director of the Metropolitan Trust Company, the Detroit, Hillsdale and South Western Railroad.

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.{{cite book |last1=Hamersly |first1=Lewis Randolph |last2=Leonard |first2=John W. |last3=Mohr |first3=William Frederick |last4=Holmes |first4=Frank R. |last5=Knox |first5=Herman Warren |last6=Downs |first6=Winfield Scott |title=Who's who in New York City and State |date=1924 |publisher=L.R. Hamersly Company |page=869 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzHTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA869 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en}}

On April 19, 1903, Maynard was married to Eunice Ives (1872–1942), a daughter of Eleanor Anderson ({{nee}} Bissell) Ives and Brayton Ives, who had served as President of the New York Stock Exchange, Northern Pacific Railway, and the Metropolitan Trust Company.{{Citation|title=Gen. Brayton Ives Financier, Is Dead| newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, New York|date=23 October 1914|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/10/23/100108829.pdf}} Together, they were the parents of:

• Walter Maynard (1906–1971),{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=Walter Maynard Is Dead at 65; Leader in Securities Industry|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/29/archives/walter-maynard-is-dead-at-65-leaderin-securities-industry.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=29 November 1971}} 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),{{cite news |title=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. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/07/24/archives/mrs-burden-to-wed-guy-f-cary-today-widow-of-arthur-scott-burden.html |quote=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. |work=The New York Times |date=24 July 1922 |access-date=28 August 2009 }} in 1932.{{cite news |title=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. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/10/archives/miss-burden-tos-walter-maynard-elaborate-ceremony-takes-place-in.html |access-date=24 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=10 February 1932}} They later divorced and she married Thomas Robins in 1963.{{cite news|work=Princeton Alumni Weekly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aBRbAAAAYAAJ|page=19|title = Cynthia Roche |publisher=Princeton University|date=24 May 1963}}{{cite news|title=Thomas Robins Jr., Company Chairman. Headed Hewitt-Robins, Producers of Synthetic Rubber |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/05/29/75747818.html |access-date=14 April 2016 |work=The New York Times |date=29 May 1977}}
• Audrey Maynard (1908–1996), who married John Winthrop Auchincloss (1912–1990), a brother of Louis Auchincloss, in 1941.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special to THE NEW YORK |title=Audrey Maynard Married at Home; Has Three Attendants at Her Wedding in Jericho, L. I., to John W. Auchincloss |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/06/29/archives/audrey-maynard-married-at-home-has-three-attendants-at-her-wedding.html |access-date=24 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 June 1941}}

Maynard died at 114 East 40th Street, his residence in Manhattan, on March 4, 1925. His funeral was held at Grace Church.{{cite news |title=DIED -- MAYNARD |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/03/05/archives/obituary-1-no-title.html |access-date=24 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=5 March 1925}} His widow lived in New York at 730 Park Avenue until her death on June 5, 1942.{{cite news |title=MRS. WALTER I. MAYNARD; Widow of Banker Was Daughter of Northern Pacific's Ex-Head |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/06/06/archives/mrs-walter-i-maynard-widow-of-banker-was-daughter-of-northern.html |access-date=24 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=6 June 1942}}

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.{{cite web |title=HAUT BOIS |url=https://househistree.com/houses/haut-bois |website=househistree.com |publisher=HouseHistree |access-date=24 March 2022}} 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.{{cite news |last1=Chamoff |first1=Lisa |title=Chateau-style home for $16.5M |url=https://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/brookville-house-french-chateau-style-on-market-for-16-5-million-1.10344132 |accessdate=16 January 2020 |work=Newsday |date=April 29, 2015 |language=en}}

Through his son Walter, he was a grandfather of Sheila Maynard (1936–2018), a clinical social worker who worked in Islamabad,{{cite news |title=Weddings; Camilla Campbell, Oliver Platt |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/13/style/weddings-camilla-campbell-oliver-platt.html |work=The New York Times |date=13 September 1992 |access-date=10 March 2008}} married Nicholas Platt, a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Zambia and the Philippines,{{cite news |first=David |last=Kipen |title=Oliver Platt: from second banana to pick of the bunch |work=L.A. Life |publisher=Los Angeles Daily News |date=3 April 1995 |page=L1}} in 1957,{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=SHEILA MAYNARD MARRIED UPSTATE; Attended by 4 at Wedding in Rhinebeck to Nicholas Platt, Harvard Alumnus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/06/29/archives/sheila-maynard-married-upstate-attended-by-4-at-wedding-in.html |access-date=24 March 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 June 1957}} 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.{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special to The New York|title=PAMELA S. SILVER BECOMES ENGAGED Former Wellesley Student to Be Bride of Lieut, Walter Maynard Jr. of Marines|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/08/08/archives/pamela-s-silver-b-bsua-former-wellesley-student-to-l-be-bride-of.html|access-date=14 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=8 August 1954}}{{cite news|title=Audrey Maynard Becomes the Bride of Kaighn Smith Jr.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/19/style/audrey-maynard-becomes-the-bride-of-kaighn-smith-jr.html|work=The New York Times|date=19 September 1982}}

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