Maynard Mount Lippincott was born in Marion, Ohio, on 13 September 1894. His parents are Mr. & Mrs. Kelly E. Mount. Lippincott was adopted by Mr & Mrs. Samuel. B. Lippincott, when Maynard was 6 years old. Lippincott sold the Marion Daily Star when he was 5 years old! He would graduated from Marion High School in 1911, at the age of sixteen years old. In 1916 he would graduate from Ohio State, earning his Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering, in June of 1916. Prior to entering service he was employed at the Marion City, engineer’s office.
Lippincott was part of the Marion Selects, who left for Camp Sherman on 24 June 1918. While in the United States Army, Maynard M. Lippincott would serve with F Company, 309th Combat Engineers, 84th Division “Railsplitters”, American Expeditionary Forces. He attained the rank of Private First Class (Pfc.).
Lippincott related in a letter that he had a difficult voyage across the Atlantic. He said he had to pull guard duty towards the front of the ship and was splashed with water every few minutes. He said that he was sick for several days and that had cost him a chance to be corporal.
Pfc. Maynard M. Lippincott died of lobar pneumonia on 16 October 1918, in Europe. He is buried in the Marion Cemetery. The Marion Daily Star reported, “… Is Taken by Pneumonia Following Influenza Attack.”
Pfc. Lippincott’s remains were returned aboard the U. S. A. T. Wheaton (funeral ship), on 15 December 1920, arriving at Hoboken, New Jersey.
Pfc. Maynard M. Lippincott is remembered on the Honor Roll, at the Veterans Memorial Park in Marion, Ohio; and on the World War One Honor Roll, located on the second floor of the Marion County Courthouse.