in Knoxville in 1882, and was buried in Knoxville's Old Gray Cemetery. Legacy Maynard was remembered among his peers for his powerful intellect and sense of persuasiveness. Knoxville Journal editor William Rule wrote that Maynard was the "best read man" of East Tennessee's lawyers, while abolitionist Frederick Douglass once remarked that Maynard had a "three story head." Knoxville mayor Peter Staub (a Democrat) said that even though he disliked Maynard, he was so impressed with Maynard's reasoning and rhetoric that he voted for him twice. Oliver Perry Temple wrote of Maynard: "Many were the persons he stung and wounded by his biting sarcasm or pungent wit." Humorist George Washington Harris mocked Maynard ("Stilyards") in his story, "The Widow McCloud's Mare." During the 1850s, Knox County attempted to sue the newly formed Union County, Tennessee, out of existence. Maynard successfully represented Union County, and in return, the county named its county seat, Maynardville, in his honor. Horace Maynard High School served the county from 1923 until 1997, when it became a middle school. During the Spanish–American War, the USS Nashville, commanded by Maynard's son, Washburn, fired the war's first American shot. Another son, James, was president of the Knoxville-based Brookside Mills in the early 1900s. References and notes External links Finding Aid for the Horace Maynard Papers — University of Tennessee Special Collections |- |- |- |- |- 1814 births 1882 deaths People from Westborough, Massachusetts United States Postmasters General Hayes administration cabinet members Tennessee Whigs Tennessee Know Nothings Know-Nothing members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee Opposition Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee Tennessee Oppositionists Tennessee Unionists Unionist Party members of the United States House of Representatives Unconditional Union Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee 1852 United States presidential electors Ambassadors of the United States to the Ottoman Empire Tennessee Attorneys General Tennessee lawyers People of Tennessee in the American Civil War Politicians from Knoxville, Tennessee Southern Unionists in the American Civil War 19th-century American diplomats Amherst College alumni University of Tennessee faculty 19th-century American politicians