MR. FRANK BIERCE MALTBY, C.E.

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(President of the Maltby Association.)

Mr. Frank B. Maltby, the second president of the Maltby Association, was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1882, and in 1907 was given an honorary degree.  After matriculating, Mr. Maltby followed the engineering profession and has been connected with railroad construction and work under the government on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.  From 1902 to 1905, Mr. Maltby was in charge of all dredging operations on the Mississippi River below Cairo and at this time had under his direction the largest dredge plant in the world.

In 1905 Mr. Maltby went to Panama as a dredging expert in charge of all dredging operations and was afterwards made Division Engineer and then Principal Assistant Engineer under Mr. Jno. F. Stevens, Chief Engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission.

While in the service of the canal commission, Mr. Maltby designed and built the dredges now in use in constructing the canal.  This plant cost about a million and a half dollars.

Mr. Maltby’s work also included the construction of wharves and docuks and beginning the construction of the great Gatun lock and dam.  He also built a cold storage plant, laundry and a bakery on the Isthmus.

After the canal construction was turned over to the army engineers Mr. Maltby resigned and was chief engineer for the firm of Dodge and Day of Philadelphia.

In 1908, Dodge and Day had the contract for the erection of the largest cableway plant in the world for handling material at Gatun.  Later Mr. Maltby became associated with James Stewart and Company of New York, general contractors.  At this time Mr. Maltby was in charge of a large contract on the New York State barge canal, as well as of work in Buffalo and Lorain, Ohio.  In 1911, Mr. Maltby became a partner with the firm of Contractors and Engineers in New York City, Galwens and Dodge.

The latest work of Mr. Maltby’s has been the Cape Cod Canal, recently finished. As a hydraulic engineer and an expert on all classes of dredging operations, Mr. Maltby has made a name for himself of which he well might be proud, but being of a most retiring disposition, it remains for his kinsmen to feel a just satisfaction in the place he has made for himself in the highest ranks of his profession.

Mr. Maltby’s line of descent is given below:

1. William Maltby m. (1^st or 2^nd wife?).

2. Daniel Maltby m. Esther Moss.

3. Daniel Maltby m. Mary Harrison.

4. Benjamin Maltby (R.W.) m. Abigail Munger.

5. Nathaniel Harrison Maltby m. Betsy Patchin.

6. Warren Maltby m. Chlo Elizabeth Bierce.

7. Frank Bierce Maltby m. Margaret Ellen McNavy.

Mr. Maltby has two daughters: Ruth McNavy, and Marion Elizabeth, Maltby.  Mr. Maltby married, second, on Feb. 1, 1908.  Miss Josephine Hedges of New York City.