November 13, 2007

Maynard 1838 remembered as school turns 110

The Knoxville News Sentinel ran a column today on the 110th year of Maynard Elementary School, “Knoxville’s oldest black school that still stands on its original site.” The school was named for Horace Maynard, a native of Westboro, Massachusetts and an 1838 graduate of the College.

He was a professor at the University of Tennessee from 1839-1844. He read law, was admitted to the bar in 1844 and began his practice in Knoxville. He was elected to Congress several times between 1857 and 1873.

Maynard unsuccessfully ran for governor of Tennessee in 1874. He was minister to Turkey from 1875 to 1880, and was appointed postmaster general in the cabinet of President Rutherford B. Hayes and served from 1880 to 1881. He died in Knoxville May 3, 1882, and is buried in Old Gray Cemetery.

Five years later, as the school named for Maynard was dedicated, “Mayor Samuel Heiskell praised Maynard as a devoted friend and advocate of the education of the people.” A school named for Mayor Heiskell had been dedicated just six days earlier.

Parker Morse '96 | November 13, 2007 08:58 AM | Alumni

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