| From "SUCCESSFUL MEN OF NEW JERSEY":
Alexander Maybaum was born in Westphalia, Germany, February 11th
1849, and came to America when thirteen years of age. In Newark,
N. J. which became his residence, he continued the education commenced
in the schools of Germany.
Complying with the wishes of his natural guardians he learned
the trade of a butcher, and soon after reaching his majority entered
thereupon for a living. Prudence, industry and uprightness combined
to give success to his enterprise, and his wholesale establishment
became the largest in the County of Essex, N. J. He has increased
from year to year, and, notwithstanding the opposition of the great
Western beef trusts, his success is all that he could desire.
Mr. Maybaum enjoys an enviable reputation as a highly intelligent
and public-spirited man, and has many times been called upon to
take an important part in the affairs of the county. Several times
he served as a member of the Essex County Board of Freeholders,
and as a member of the South Orange Township Committee. He was the
leading spirit in the movement to give to Vailsburg, his place of
residence, a borough form of government. The movement met with a
great deal of opposition on the part of the leading politicians
of South Orange, who did not regard with favor the cutting off from
the township such an important village as Vailsburg. But by perseverance
and incessant work, Mr. Maybaum finally succeeded in having the
village made into a borough. Naturally he was selected to stand
for the office of Mayor, and he was elected to the chief magistracy
without opposition. He has been, since his election, the life and
ruling spirit of the borough government. His suggestions for its
improvement have generally met with the favor of the residents,
irrespective of party. He has great faith in the future of Vailsburg
as a place of residence, and has striven to make it equal, to any
of the surrounding townships in the character of its improvements.
Through his instrumentality a new Borough Hall was erected, sewers
were constructed, streets laid out, water supply bargained for,
and many other things conducive to the welfare of the place have
been set on foot until the borough has become known as one of the
most progressive places in the county. Mayor Maybaum is a prominent
member of the Progress and Jeffersonian Clubs of Newark. He also
holds membership in the Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor and several
other associations.
He was a candidate before the Democratic convention for Congressman
from the Eighth District in 1892 and failed to receive the nomination
by only one vote.
On January 25th 1874, he was married to Mary Stein, by whom he
has six children.
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