REV. CLARK ORLANDO MALTBY

(CFE-BAG-D)

Mr. Maltby was born at South Rutland, New York, July 19^TH, 1836.  He IS a son of Rev. Sherman and Maria Thomas Maltby.

In June, 1857, he graduted from the State Normal School at Albany, New York.  After graduation Mr. Maltby taught for one year in the Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute at Brooklyn, New York.  In September, 1859, he married Miss Fannie E. Clark and settled in business at Watertown, New York.  He remained there for fifteen years, active in church work and served as Deacon, Clerk, Chorister and Treasurer.  He also was interested in the Sunday school in which he taught and served as superintendent.

At length, in the winter of 1872, he give expression to a long felt desire to enter the ministry and the following year began a three years’ course of study in the Rochester Theological Seminary.  After his graduation in 1877, he assumed the duties of the pastorate of the Baptist Church at Madison, Wisconsin, in response to a call which had been previously extended to him.

After spending a few months in California, he returned to the vicinity of Chicago, and afterward settled in Philadelphia, where during a successful pastorate, a new house of worship was erected.

His next charge was at Paterson, New Jersey, where after seven years of service, a church building was completed and dedicated.  His last pastorate was at Newtown, Pennslvania, where also a church building was erected.

His aim has always been to build up, not to pull down, consequently he has many friends in the churches where he has served.

Mr. Maltby has written a number of songs which have been appreciated by his friends.

Now, though no longer able to serve as pastor, he finds congenial employment in visiting the sick of the city hospital and in doing good as he has opportunity; and with the companion of his youth still spared to him, he looks back over the years that have fled and rejoiced that his labors have not been in vain.