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Col. Ralph Robinson and Mary Letitia (GOGGIN) MALTBY

His Parents - Timothy and Beulah (HARMON) MALTBY

Spouse's Parents -

kid - Lucien Goggin

---- Pictures related to Ralph and Mary MALTBY, etc.

CGB-EBB-H. Col. Ralph Robinson MALTBY, b. Apr. 19, 1830 (Tim.6, Tim.5, Sam.4, Sam.3, Sam.2, Wm.1). m. May 27, 1855, Mary Letitia GOGGIN, at Washington, Kentucky. She d. June 13, 1893.

Col. Maltby was in the Union Army which he entered in Oct. 1861, at Washington, Mason Co., Ky. He enlisted for "three years or for the war," under Col. Charles A. Marshall. He had the rank of Adjutant but virtually he performed the duties of Colonel himself. After a year of service he raised a regiment of Cavalry--the 10th Volunteer Regt. of Kentucky Cavalry. He advertised for volunteers the 20th of August, 1862, and 800 men responded the very next day.

He was a member of the Maltby Association. He was an "Officer and a gentleman" throughout his life. No words seem adequate to draw a picture of this kindly, genial, noble gentleman. He d. Jan. 16, 1920, at his home near Washington, Kentucky.

	Child:
CGB-EBB-HA.  Lucien Goggin Maltby, b. Aug. 18, 1857.
Obituary.
            "Colonel of Old Tenth Kentucky
               Died This Morning."
	"Col. R.R.Maltby, Organizer of the Famous Old 10th Kentucky in
	 Civil War, Dies at early Hour This Morning--Funeral Sunday."

"Colonel R.R.Maltby, one of the last of the Commanding Officers of the Union Army, died at his beautiful country home near Washington this morning at 5 o'clock, in his 90th year after a serious illness of only a short time.

The death of this great character will shed a deep gloom over hundreds of homes throughout North Eastern Kentucky and Southern Ohio, for scattered throughout this territory there are hundreds of homes where the name of Colonel Maltby was revered because fathers and grandfathers in those homes had served in his command during the war between the States. He was President of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry and Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry Association which held its annual re-unions at Beech wood Park this city and at those annual gatherings the love of the few remaining veterans for their old commander as displayed was beautiful. These annual gatherings in the future will lack much of their attractiveness because of the absence of the old Colonel.

Colonel Ralph Robinson Maltby had been a resident of this state for over half a century. Few have resided in this portion of the country so long and his labors have been directed to those channels which have proved of marked benefit to the community, for while promoting individuals success, he has also contributed to the general prosperity.

Colonel Maltby was born in Oswego county, N.Y., in 1830, on the 18th day of April, the son of Timothy and Huldah Maltby, who were natives of Connecticut and Vermont, respectively. They reared a family of twelve children and gave them all good educations."

In 1850, when the Colonel was twenty years old, he came to Kentucky, having learned the manufacturing of paper, but did not follow the business, as he was without capital to start an industry as expensive as that would be, so he engaged himself in a smaller manner until 1852 when he entered into merchandising and was successful. He was for 25 years a salesman of the firm of McAlpin and Co., of Cincinnati, and conducted a store at Washington from 1852 until the war between the states broke out, when he closed his store and enlisted in October, 1861, as adjutant of the Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry, under command of Colonel Charles A. Marshall.

Colonel Maltby served in this position until August, 1862, when he organized the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry of Maysville and was colonel of the same during the term of service. The regiment was mustered out in 1863, after its twelve months of service, after which Colonel Maltby resumed business until 1866 when he built a woolen factory at Murphysville. This was destroyed by fire in 1872 and he engaged in the wholesale business in Cincinnati.

The Colonel was a remarkable man in more than one way. Although he was quite advanced in age, he had never been incapacitated by illness, other than accident, from moving about and pursuing an active avocation until recent years.

In 1855 he married Mary Tittia Goggin, daughter of Colonel L.B. Goggin, of this county. Mrs. Maltby died June 13, 1893, at Washington. Their marriage was performed in the home at Washington which was built by Governor John Chambers about 1810, and now owned by his only son, Mr. Lucien G. Maltby.

The funeral will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock from the Washington Presbyterian church and burial will be made in the Washington cemetery. The family requests that flowers be omitted."

                       "An Appreciation."
         "Know ye not there is a prince and a great man
          fallen this day in Israel. 2-Sam. 3:38."

"It is with profound sorrow that I have learned of the death of Col. R.R.Maltby. His long and stainless life spent for the most part in Mason county, has closed, and his record is on high. He moved among us with such regularity and composure that it seemed fitting that his departure should be long delayed. How steadily he kept 'the even tenor of his way'. How gently he descended the declivity of time! How peacefully he sank to his rest! We shall not lament him for his work was done!

Col. Maltby was a man of pleasing address, there was no fawning or truculency in his manner, but on the contrary an easy dignity which impressed all who met him. His approach to a stranger was natural and pleasing, not gushing, but cordial, one felt that he was in the presence of a man of high character; no stranger would suspect him of insincerity. There was an open expression on his face that would disarm anyone of any danger in giving him his confidence. In commercial life this is a great asset. It was the secret of his success as a business man. Strangers trusted him and they were never betrayed. Col. Maltby had a judicial mind. He would have made a wise, discriminating and just judge. As an attorney he would have been a wise counselor. He would not have led his client into litigation for his own personal benefit, but would have advised him for his good. When his cause was just no man would have fought more fiercely or persistently for his rights.

In the social circle Col. Maltby was a prince. His easy manners, his versatile knowledge, his ready speech, his convivial nature all combined to make him a favorite in every circle.

But his crowning virtue was his high sense of right. The Golden Rule was his code of honor. His conscious integrity enabled him to look every man squarely in the face, for there was no deception there. He treated every man as a brother, and so pure were his motives and so fair were his dealings that every man recognized him as a friend.

He gave the highest proof of his patriotism. At his country's call he promptly laid down his pursuits as a citizen, left his family and enlisted in the ranks of the Union Army. His soldierly bearing marked him as one capable of commanding, and he was given the position of adjutant of the Sixteenth Kentucky Infantry. Before he had served a year he was commissioned Colonel and given the privilege of raising a regiment of cavalry. This he soon accomplished and commanded the regiment until the term of his enlistment expired.

He was a gallant officer and a brave soldier. He was human in the treatment of his men and bound them to him with 'hoops of steel'

As a private citizen he adorned the ranks of society, and gathered about him an army of friends. Most of them have proceeded him to the Great Beyond, though many are left to appreciate his virtues and mourn his loss.

For forty-three years he was my personal friend. I have enjoyed his hospitality, and have been honored by an intimate friendship. I never learned his faults. Like all mortals I presume he had them, but his virtues were so refulgent that they were hidden from my view. To those who loved and admired him more than I would assume, I offer my sympathy, and commend them to Him who loved him more than we all, for He gave his life to redeem him.

                                J. J. Dickey
	Maysville, Ky.  January 17, 1920."

("War of Rebellion, Official Record of the Union and Confederate Armies. Series I, Vol. XXIII(?) Part II, p. 358")

"Cincinnati. May 23, 1863. Letter from A.E.Burnside, Major-Gen'll.

"I have ordered a telegraph line to be built from Paris to Mount Sterling. Col. (R.R.) Maltby is in Maysville by this time with about 300 of the Tenth and Fourteenth Kentucky Cavalry, and will be at Mount Sterling in two or three days."

(p.566) Burnside to Gen. Hartsuff; July 28, 1863.

"Colonel Maltby left Mount Stirling at 3:30 this afternoon."

(Vol. XXIII  Part I, p. 699)
                                Lexington.
                                July 6, 1863.
General Hartsuft.

Three companies of my regiment are still in the mountains. Shall I order them to remain at Mount Sterling when they come in? There is a large amount of stores at that point. They can protect them at present.

                             R.R.Maltby
                       Lieut-Col. Tenth Kentucky Cavalry
(p.382) General Orders.

I, the general commanding tenders his hearty thanks and congratulations to Col. John (F) DeCourcy and the officers and men under his command, namely the Eighth and Ninth Regiments Michigan Cavalry under Colonel Stockton, the Tenth Kentucky Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel Maltby, etc.

(p.838) Scotts Raid in Eastern Kentucky.

Letter from Thos. L. Young, Lieutenant-Colonel. 118th Ohio Vol. Infantry.

"During the night following, Colonel Maltby and Ross arrived from Winchester bringing with them some prisoners taken at that place."

	(Time in the library did not permit study of further references.)

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Lucien Goggin MALTBY

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