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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

William MALTBY, Superintendent of the Eureka Coal Co., Braidwood. The above-named gentleman 
is one of the prominent men of Braidwood; was born in Selston, England, March 7, 1840, and 
is the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (CLARK) MALTBY, of England; his father was engaged in 
taking care of the stock of a large coal and iron company in England; Mr. MALTBY, when 7 
years of age, commenced to work on his father's farm by straddling a mule and driving them 
tandem to the plow; he came in contact with the miners here; he was induced to enter the 
mine, driving coal-cart and mining; in 1862, he emigrated to Canada and landed in Quebec; 
then to Lake Superior; from there he went to Jackson, Mich.; in 1863, he came to Illinois, 
to Peoria and Fairbury then East to Pennsylvania; entered the coal business for two years; 
then to Nova Scotia, prospecting for coal, for Charles S., RICHARDSON; not finding coal, 
he returned to New York City; then to Michigan; from there he came to Chicago, IL, and in 
Dec., 1866, was appointed Superintendent of the Rhodes Coal Co., now known as the Eureka 
Coal Co. of Chicago; this company employs between 400 and 450 men; capacity of seventy 
cars per day, twelve tons to a car. Mr. MALTBY came to America financially a poor boy; 
today he has risen from the lad that was engaged in driving the mule to the plow to a 
Superintendent of one of the largest coal companies in the West; is the President and 
one of the founders of the Braidwood Library, with 1,300 volumes. Mr. M. has been 
married twice; to his first wife, in 1858, Miss Dorinda GREEN, of England, and to his 
second wife, in 1873, Addie VARLEY, of England; has six children.