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George Allen Maybee

Male 1843 - 1891  (48 years)

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  • Name George Allen Maybee 
    Birth 1843  Woodville, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    No Name 1861  Brock Township, Ontario County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    No Name 1871  Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • 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 Between 1879 and 1883  Woodville, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • active in Woodville mortgages
    No Name 1881  Eldon, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • 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 Between 1887 and 1891  Lot 1 Con 1, Eldon Tp, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • active in Eldon Tp mortgages
    Will 26 Nov 1889  [1] 
    • Will Available
    No Name 1891  [1] 
    • 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  [1] 
    • 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
    Death 17 Aug 1891  Eldon Township, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    No Name 1924  Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    • 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
    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.
    Person ID I35797  Glenn Cook Family
    Last Modified 30 Nov 2006 

    Father Tobias M Maybee,   b. 1813, Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1901, Toronto, York County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Abigail McCarty,   b. 1811, Donegal, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1881 (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage 2 Sep 1833  Saint Peter's Anglican Church, Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Tobias Maybee and Abigail McCarty, both of Haldimand Township,
      Banns. By A. N. Bethune. Witnesses: Schuyler Abernathy and
      (illegible)
    Census 1861  Brock Township, Ontario County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • 48, T. Maybee, M, 49, M, Canada, Ch of Eng, Carpenter
      49, A. Maybee, F, 49, M, Ireland, Ch of Eng
      50, Henry Maybee, M, 20, S, Canada, Ch of Eng
      Resides 1 story frame house; 5 acres;
    Census 1871  Brock Township, Ontario County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • 18, Tobias Maybee, M, 59, M, Ontario, Presbyterian, Carpenter
      19, Abigail Maybee, F, 59, M, Ireland, Roman Catholic
      20, Amanda Maybee, F, 22, S, Ontario, Ch of England
      21, Catherine Maybee, F, 20, S, Ontario, Ch of England
      22, Abigail Maybee, F, 17, S, Ontario, Ch of England
      Residing Lot 23, Concession 11; 5 acres; 2 bld lots, 3 houses,
      1 warehouse, 4 barns, 2 carriages, 1 wagon, 1 horse, 2 cows, 3
      swine
    Family ID F551605786  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abigail Irish,   b. 1846, Woodville, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Dec 1893, Woodville, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years) 
    Marriage 21 Jul 1868  Ontario County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    • 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
    Census 1871  Mariposa Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • 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 Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • 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
    Children 
     1. Minnie Maybee,   b. 1870   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. George Allen Maybee,   b. 23 May 1873, Woodville, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Caroline Maybee,   b. 20 Apr 1879, Eldon Township, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Mar 1959, Los Angeles County, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F551605980  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Nov 2006 

  • Sources 
    1. [S1244] Douglas Cameron Mabee, MS 177 - Douglas Cameron Mabee, (dmab@allstream.net).

    2. [S1271] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie's Canadian census, 1861 CANADIAN CENSUS, UPPER CANADA (ONTARIO), ONTARIO COUNTY, BROCK TOWNSHIP, DISTRICT 6; REFERENCE: FILM C 1056, PAGE 5 (84) (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1271] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie's Canadian census, 1871 CANADIAN CENSUS, UPPER CANADA (ONTARIO), VICTORIA COUNTY, MARIPOSA TOWNSHIP, DISTRICT 1; REFERENCE: FILM C 9980, PAGE 56 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S1271] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie's Canadian census, 1881 CENSUS; ELDON, VICTORIA NORTH, ONTARIO, CANADA; SOURCE: FHL FILM 1375879 NAC C-13243 DIST 130 SUBDIST A DIV 1 PAGE 50 FAMILY 222 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S1233] Barbara Miller, Barbara Millar, THE STORY OF SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE. VOLUME 3, BY JOHN HAWKES,; PPUBLISHER: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS: CLARKE, 1924, PGS.1610 1611 1612 1625 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S1268] Steve Mabie, Chronology of Ontario Canada, ST. PETER'S ANGLICAN CHURCH REGISTER - COBOURG (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S1271] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie's Canadian census, 1861 CANADIAN CENSUS, UPPER CANADA (ONTARIO), ONTARIO COUNTY, BROCK TOWNSHIP, DISTRICT 6; REFERENCE: FILM C 1056, PAGE 10 (89) (Reliability: 3).

    8. [S1271] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie's Canadian census, 1871 CANADIAN CENSUS, UPPER CANADA (ONTARIO), ONTARIO COUNTY, BROCK TOWNSHIP, DISTRICT 3; REFERENCE: FILM C 9976, PAGE 8 (Reliability: 3).

    9. [S1233] Barbara Miller, Barbara Millar, MARRIAGES ONTARIO COUNTY (Reliability: 3).



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