SETH WALDO MALTBIE
(CFG-FKM)
Seth Waldo Maltbie, the youngest of thirteen children of Deacon Daniel and Ester (Tappin) Maltbie, was born May 19th, 1840, Southington, Trumbull County, Ohio. After attending the public schools he attended school in the preparatory department of Oberlin College in 1858, and entered that college in 1860. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted and was enrolled in the second company organized among the students of the college. The quota being more than full, his company was disbanded and he continued being more than full, his company was disbanded and he continued his studies through the college year when he entered the army as private in Co. D., 87th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was appointed corporal and then sergeant in his company and the following year he was commissioned captain of Co. E., 4th Regt. U.S.C.T.
At the close of the war he continued his college course at Amherst, Mass., and graduated in 1867. Received the appointment as disciplinarian of the military academy at Cheshire, Conn. The following year was superintendent of the public schools of Princeton, Ill. Then for several years occupied a similar position in the public schools of Genesee, Ill. Then was for two years principal of the Oshkosh High School, Oshkosh, Wis. Health failing, moved to Tama County, Iowa, and engaged in the insurance business and taught a few terms in the public schools. Being informed in mining engineering he was sent to the mountains and employed by various mining companies and worked in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, California and New Mexico. For the past eight years he has been engaged in mining as local manager, where he and his wife still reside.
He was married in 1867, to Rizpah Stetson Boltwood of Amherst, Mass. They have had five children, Ralph Waldo, Edith Brayton, Gertrude, Guy Southworth and Mildred Noble.
Ralph Waldo Maltbie was born July 1, 1868, at Saybrook, Trumbull County, Ohio. Educated in the public schools and Iowa College, Grennell, Iowa, began teaching in the public schools in Iowa; went to Chicago and taught as principal of suburban schools for thirteen years. Health failing, he gave up teaching and engaged in railroading in various capacities, principally as clerk in the general offices. Went to California and began teaching in the public schools of Los Angeles, and is now principal of schools at Chatsworth, Cal. He married Nettie May Webster of Barrington, III. They have two sons, Leonard and Robert.
The third and fourth children of Seth Waldo and Rizpah Stetson (Boltwood) Maltbie named Gertrude and Guy Southworth, died in infancy.
The fifth, Edith Brayton, born at Genesee, Ill., Oct. 15th, 1871. In her early childhood she was remarkable for early development of mental and moral qualities and showed wonderful talent in public elocutionary ability and while in the primary department on account of her age and in the high school in one or more studies she was chosen to represent the high school in the state oratorical contest and though only 8 years of age, she was marked third by the judges of the contest. The youngest of all the other contestants was twice her age. She took a course of study at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. In Aug., 1891, she married the Reb. A.W. Davis and died Feby, 12th, 1894, leaving a son, Lloyd Shilton Davis, then sixteen months old. This boy is now 17 and has taken high standing in the public schools of Kansas City, Mo., where he now resides.
Mildred Noble (CFG-FKM-e), the fifth child of Seth Waldo and Rizpah Stetson (Boltwood) Maltbie, was born May 7th, 1891 at Montown, Tama County, Iowa. After thorough training in the public schools, Iowa College and normal studies she engaged in kindergarten work and taught in the public schools. She married in 1903, Joshua Baldwin Clarke. She has two children, Theodore William and Geraldine Maltby. The family reside at Gronegen, Minn.