Maltbie, Ebenezer Davenport

Maltbie, Ebenezer Davenport, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Stamford, Conn., Jan. 20, 1799; graduated at Hamilton College, New York, in 1824, and studied theology in the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass., which he left in 1826 to become tutor in Hamilton College. He was licensed to preach in 1832, and ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Hamilton, N.Y. In 1841 he took charge of the Hudson River Academy, and in 1843 became principal of a literary institution in Lansingburg, N. Y., which position he resigned eight years after on account of failing health. He died at Syracuse, N. Y., in 1859. Mr. Maltbie was an excellent teacher, beloved and honored as a pastor, and engergetic and unwearied in his labors of charity and piety. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1860, p. 74.