University of Minnesota School of Agriculture - Agrarian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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.A 1' ff'ii-1,:f+ i:-.--T53 ff- Eff xiii:-SLS' iii -f -5- 1 S i og: --5, 43 ' A .gf ,mt tx- WC? iw: 1 M1 Dexter D. Mayne N? l ish? ARY TRELOAR was born at Pen ' A Ponds, Cornwall, England, September :'Q 24, 1825. Her father was a miller V425 who carried on a business of feed and flour grind- ing as in the days of Shakespeare. Mary Tre- lfl loar's mother was a woman of strong character who took her full share of responsibility in man- aging the mill as well as taking care of a large family of children of which Mary was the iff! youngest. In the neighboring community lived 1 the Mayne family. Here Nicholas Mayne was ill' born April 29, 1825. As a youth he was very lQ' serious minded, was converted when 14 years old and went out as a local preacher when 22 years of age. Mary Treloar and the boy preacher, Rev. Mg Nicholas Mayne, were married in 1848 when both were 23 years of age, and the next year, 1849, they sailed for America, the trip across the ocean ,'Q. D. D' MAYNE3 GRADUATION PICTURE, taking three months. They landed at New 1883 Orleans and then took a steamboat up the river for Galena, Illinois-afterwards going overland to Dodgeville where Mary Mayne's brothers and sisters had already settled. So began 'N the Mayne family in America, in 1849, the year gold was discovered in California, right in the midst of the slavery controversy, five years before the Civil strife in Kansas and Nebraska. Reverend Nicholas Mayne in trying to locate a community in which to lf? build up a church was sent by the Wisconsin conference of the Methodist church to Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. He was the first minister of these places. The fol- I. lowing excerpt from The History of Chippewa Valley by T. E. Randall is interesting: V The M. E. church sent a preacher into this valley in the summer of 1852 by the name 7 of Mayne, a young man from England, quiet, humble, and zealous. This was Rever- N 1:5 end Nicholas Mayne, the husband of Mary Treloar and the father of Dexter Dwight Mayne. N 2 In 1854 Reverend Mayne was sent to Black River Falls circuit. Here he had four appointments, two on the Black River and two on the Trempealeau, the Hrst year. The next year Sparta was added. Sparta was the first place where Reverend Mayne had a Q meeting house in which he could hold services. From 1854 to 1859 Reverend Mayne had new and varied charges, largely pioneering and establishing circuits. In 1859 Reverend Mayne was sent to Beetown, Wisconsin-still as a member of the M. E. Con- ' iff-T-S-'l1'i-Tiff 1 L-7i,i i.lg'.pi:m:,4Lf-ir' g ' t--.4 ' ' 17 I-' : .4 -'1f ' 'ig Page Sixteen

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aK Y x6'5'lf 51 geayzfesiz fm w Principal D. D. Mayne ANY times during the past year we have heard X graduates of the School say, Things do not seem natural at University Farm with Professor Mayne gone. This simple statement is a wonderful tribute to his memory, for it shows how thoroughly he had become a part of an institution which our graduates dearly love. For them, he was really an indispensable part. The mainspring of Professor Mayne's life was to help the students of the School to live wisely, constructively, honorably and happily. No man could have a higher or a nobler purpose. And this purpose Professor Mayne fol- lowed unfalteringly even when the student was unrespon- sive and unappreciative, or when conditions were otherwise dark and discouraging. Professor Mayne always kept a young mind and heart and hence to the end, life was a glorious adventure for him. He spent no time in regretting that the manner of living in the good old days could not be reestablished. Rather, he rejoiced over each new invention, each new step in progress with all the enthusiasm and gusto of hope- ful and self-reliant youth. ' In sum, his was a young heart and mind dedicated to helping others live. No wonder that he was a great teacher ever to be honored and held dear in memory. No wonder that, Things do not seem natural at University Farm with Professor Mayne gone. -WALTER C. COFFEY, Dean and Director, Department of Agriculture, University of Minnesota. X 'W' .2374 r',,.ff1Jsrz2:'w Xf V J ft .1 X -sk Page Fi ftemi

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moving was a great delight to him. They moved into a small brick house. He was in the Primary Tifaffwjf . , f 3,'-f igA'15i-'i5f+:,ge pf., C: gf CW V., f if ference. After preaching for the Methodists here for two years-still a young man, ' Q ffl 34 years of age-he thought he would go to school. Arrangements were made and he K attended Bloomington Academy, preaching alternate Sundays at Beetown, Wisconsin. Following this he united with the Congregationalists. It was during the time at Bee- - town that Dexter was born on May 14, 1863. From here let us have the story in Mr. Mayne's own words as shown in excerpts taken from bits of a sketch of his own life , written a few years ago by himself--and quite characteristically frank and keen in its 9 W 3, introspection. Y- D. D. Mayne was born in Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, May 14, 1863. , 'Qi His father was a Congregational preacher. The place of his birth was a small brick KG? house of one and one-half stories. The house held two families-the Maynes living O upstairs. He was called Dexter after Reverend Dexter Cleary of Beloit, who was at .M that time the Wisconsin secretary of the Home Missionary society under whom his father I was laboring. The name Dwight was from the great theologian Dwight whose works IV f?i his father had studied. Q' ENW In January of '63 the family moved to Rockville, Wisconsin. Here he lived the A 1 U very simple life of a small boy in a small village. This was in the lead region. He H SI, often picked nuggets of 'mineral' from the waste dirt of the mines, and traded it at M the village store owned by John Carthew-later of Lancaster, Wisconsin-for candy and A so forth. A German family by the name of Meyer was the next door neighbor. They X together with his two brothers and one sister formed his companions. A pet sheep that had learned to bunt with considerable vigor occasioned him much sport. A .xl When he was six years of age the family 9 X45 moved to Potosi about six miles distant. The X I ll X A w 1 1 i X. K. R. S4 li: 5 fi department at school with Miss Pet Seaton as teacher. It was in this school that he received a severe shaking for trying to skip out of the room before regular dismissal. Heretofore recess was declared by a stroke of the bell and each pupil made a rush for the door. Miss Seaton proposed to have the pupils march out by rows. It was this order that he desired to circumvent, much to his sorrow. In the summer of 1872 the family moved to Platteville to enjoy the educational advantages there offered. They first lived in a house where the city hall now stands. It was in the Brick School here at Platte- ville that he was put back into the second reader because he could not write. He had been taught D- D. MAYNE AT 1-HRT, YEARS OF AGE, 4 K 2 C 2 4 as Page Sezfenleen