BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO

"History of the Upper Ohio Valley" Vol. II, 1890.

Presented by Linda Fluharty from hard copies provided
by Mary Staley & Phyllis Slater.


Pages 547-548.

JOHN P. MAYWOOD, manager of the Hotel Maywood, of Martin's Ferry,
was born in Philadelphia, May 30, 1832, the son of William and
Dorcas (Paul) Maywood, both natives of Pennsylvania. His grandfather,
William Maywood, a native of county Tyrone, Ireland, came to America
previous to the revolution and settled at Philadelphia. He was a soldier
of the war of 1812. William Maywood, born at Philadelphia about 1785,
was a bricklayer by trade, and was extensively engaged in contracting
in that and other cities. He also served in the war of 1812, and died
while engaged in building at Pittsburgh, in 1832. His wife died in 1839.
Of their four children, three are now living. The subject of this sketch
received his education at Philadelphia, and then served an apprenticeship
of five years in carpentry, a trade which he followed until recent years.
At the outbreak of the rebellion he was one of the first to enlist in
Baker's regiment, which afterward became the Seventy-first Pennsylvania,
and he served while with the army of the Potomac, in all its battles
until the battle of Antietam, when he was wounded in the hip, and dis-
charged from active service. Afterward re-enlisting as a carpenter he
was promoted to overseer and aided in the construction of all the bridges
between Nashville and Atlanta. Returning home after the close of the war
he followed his trade until 1888, when he took charge of the old Hanover
hotel at Martin's Ferry, the name of which he changed to Hotel Maywood.
This he has made an inviting and well-kept establishment. Mr. Maywood was
married in 1862, to Caroline, daughter of Joseph Kim, a well known pioneer.
She died in 1871, leaving three children: Joseph J., Jennie F. and Maggie
P. She was a devoted member of the Presbyterian church. In 1874 he
married Rebecca Woler, his present wife. Mr. Maywood is a member of
the Presbyterian church, and of the Masonic fraternity, and the democratic
party.