George William Maynard died on February 13th, 1913, aged 73 years.
He was born at Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from Columbia College in 1859. He afterwards spent two years in Europe, studying at the University of Gottingen, and at Clausthal in the Harz Mountains, where he gave his attention to mining and metallurgy. In 1864 he established an engineering and assay office in Gilpin County, Colorado.
From 1868 to 1872 he was professor of mining and metallurgy at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y. For six years subsequent to 1873 his head-quarters were in London, during which period he was consulting engineer to several iron and steel works in England and Wales, and he also spent six months in Russia erecting a copper reduction plant at Voskrevsenky.
He returned to New York in 1879, and from that time onward remained a resident in the United States, except for such short professional trips as he made abroad. He was engaged in active practice as a consulting engineer up to the time of his last illness; he was compelled to undergo an operation in the autumn of 1912, and never regained his normal health. He was one of the original members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
Mr. Maynard was elected a Member of the Institution in 1898.
Vol. 22, Trans IMM 1912-13, p.720
[Illustrates American connections with German Mining Schools. See – Clark C. Spence Mining Engineers and the American West: The Lace-Boot Brigade, 1849-1933. (Caxton Press, 1993), pp.30-32.]
