Frank Maynard was born in Guthrie county, Iowa, on August 16, 1861, being the son of Frank and Mary J. (Costel) Maynard. The father was born in Delaware county, Indiana, in 1839, served in the Civil war under General Siegel and was a pioneer in Oregon and in Washington. The mother of our subject was born in Ohio, in 1844 and her father was a native of Maryland. The family went from Iowa to Oregon in 1862, crossing the plains with teams. They settled in Multnomah county and also lived in Washington county and Yamhill county and the father did ranching and worked at saw-milling. Frank was educated in Portland, spending five years there. In 1874 they came to Dayton, Washington, and the father wrought in a planing mill and there our subject learned both the trade of the carpenter and that of the engineer. He built bridges on the Northern Pacific for three years, then farmed a while and after that was engineer for six years in a sawmill. At the time of the Nez Perces war, he was in Dayton and enlisted, but before action he was sent back on account of his youth. In 1895 Mr. Maynard located a claim on the middle fork in Idaho county and in 1898 he came to Nez Perces county, where he now resides, one mile east from Summit.