- DEXTER D. MAYNE, superintendent of the city schools of Janesville,
Rock County, was born
- in Beetown, Grant Co., Wis., May 14, 1863, son of Nicholas
and Mary (TRELOAR) MAYNE, both of whom were born and bred in
Cornwall, England. They were the parents of five sons and three
daughters, and five of their children are now living; Mary, wife
of Rev. A. S. NEWCOMB, of Beloit, Wis.; A. Finley, of Omaha,
Neb.; H. Watson, of Linn Grove, Iowa; Dexter D.; and Charles
M., of Lincoln, Nebraska.
- Nicholas MAYNE was a clergyman in the Methodist Church, and
in later life attached himself to
- the Congregational body. While still with the Methodists
he served as a missionary to the Chippewa Indians in the Bad-Ax
country. As a Congregationalist he did the greater portion of
his clerical work in Grant County, Wis., and was highly respected,
both for his learning and for his profound devotion to his calling.
He died in 1891, aged seventy-one years, his wife in 1898, aged
seventy-three years. His father died in England in middle life,
leaving two sons. Our subject's mother, Mary TRELOAR, was the
youngest of a large family of children - sixteen. Her father,
a miller by occupation, died in England at an advanced age.
Her mother's maiden name was TABB.
- Dexter D. MAYNE was reared in Grant County, attended the
local public schools, and was
- graduated from the Normal School at Platteville in 1883,
at which time he was already an experienced and successful teacher.
Leaving school, he became principal at Fennimore. For five
years he was principal of the high school at Elkhorn, and four
years at Fort Atkinson. He is now serving his eighty year as
superintendent of the Janesville city schools and principal of
the high school. Superintendent MAYNE has conducted Teachers
Institutes for four seasons in Wisconsin, and was manager of
Teachers Summer Schools for three years. He organized the Sectional
Teachers Associations for Wisconsin in 1889, and filled the office
of president of the Southern Wisconsin Teachers Association for
two consecutive terms; served as president of the City Superintendents
and Supervising Principals Association for two terms; was director
of the National Educational Association for Wisconsin for one
year; and was assigned places on the program at its Los Angeles
meeting, and on the National Superintendents program at Columbus.
- Superintendent MAYNE and Miss Nella G. COMAN, of Spring Prairie,
Wis., daughter of James
- and Ann (GRAY) COMAN, were united in marriage Dec. 14, 1887.
To this union have been born two sons James Coman and Mac Hudson.
Mr. and Mrs. MAYNE belong to the Congregational Church. He
is a Mason, belonging to lodge, chapter and commandery, and is
affiliated with Oriental Lodge, Knights F. Pythias.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 188.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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