William and John Maxfield
of Brooklyn, New York
and Their Descendants
Fourth Generation

John Guion Maxfield married EDNA WESTFALL VOORHEES at Elizabeth, New Jersey, on 12 September 1888 (VR Spring 10:48:271). Their marriage was recorded at Springfield, Massachusetts, as follows:

Sep 12, 1888 in Elizabeth, NJ:
John Guion Maxfield of Springfield, 23, 1st, merchant, b. USA to Charles W. and Elline (Evans)
Edna Westfall Voorhees of Elizabeth, NJ, 20, 1st, b. USA to John and Elizabeth (Allen);
by Philip S. Evans, clergyman of New Haven

According to the Springfield City Directories, John G. Maxfield lived at 27 Mattoon Street, Springfield in 1890, and at 85 Harvard Street in 1891. In 1890 he was working for B. F. Steele & Co., wholesale fruit and commission merchants. In 1891 he was simply listed as a "fruit merchant."

The 1900 census (652:2:295) reported this family at 26 Lafayette Street, Springfield:

The 1920 census (701:10A) reported John, Edna, and daughter Edna at Longmeadow, Massachusetts. John was owner of a wholesale fruit company, wife and daughter were not employed. This record differed from other family records in that it listed John's mother's birth place as "at sea."

John G. and Edna Maxfield had the following children:

1. MARJORIE⁵ MAXFIELD
   • b. at Springfield on 13 July 1891 (VR Spring 13:595)
     • Res. 85 Harvard St., to John G. and Edna W. (Voorhees) of Springfield; he fruit merchant b. Brooklyn, NY, she b. Montague, NJ.
2. EDNA V.⁵ MAXFIELD
   • b. in Massachusetts on April 1897 (1900 census)

Sources abbreviated above include:

• Census records
• City Directory, Springfield, Mass., 1890-1891. www.ancestry.com.

VR Spring

Holbrook, Jay Mack, ed. Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts. Oxford, Mass.: Holbrook Research Institute.