Matilda Cooke Maltby
{{Short description|American librarian (1841–1912)}}
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Matilda Cooke Maltby (December 1, 1841–March 25, 1912) was an American librarian.{{cite web |title=Matilda Cooke Maltby |url=https://ledger.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org/ledger/students/7965 |website=ledger.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org |publisher=Litch field historical society |access-date=May 17, 2023}}{{cite web |title=John Rogers Maltby, 1827–1892 |url=https://history.nebraska.gov/collection_section/john-rogers-maltby-1827-1892-rg2192-am/ |website=history.nebraska.gov |publisher=NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY |access-date=May 17, 2023}}
Biography
Matilda Mary Cooke was born on December 1, 1841, in Surrey, England. On January 7, 1863, she met John Rodgers Maltby, a merchant and lawyer, who was working on the trans-Atlantic Cable.{{cite book |last= Sheldon | first= Addison Erwin|year= 1963|title= Nebraska History, Volume 44| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=qjEUAAAAYAAJ|access-date= May 17, 2023|location= Lincoln, Nebraska| publisher= Nebraska State Historical Society| page=125| isbn= }} After few months, she married John on September 7, 1863, at Clapham.{{cite book |author= Yale University |year= 1869|title= Record of the Meetings of the Class of 1822, Yale College, Held in 1862 and 1867: With Biographical Sketches of the Members of the Class| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=r2kHz3W23mQC|access-date= May 17, 2023|location= Buenos Aires| publisher= Press of Hoggson & Robinson| page=30| isbn= }} Before her marriage, she converted to Catholicism.{{cite book |last= Gosen | first= Loretta |year= 1986|title= History of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, 1887–1987, Volume 1| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=NwriAAAAMAAJ|access-date= May 17, 2023|location= Lincoln, Nebraska| publisher= Catholic Bishop of Lincoln| page=106| isbn=}}
After their marriage, they moved to Paris where John was engaged in a general merchandise business, which ended into debt. Subsequently, John went to the United States without Matilda due to lack of funds to take her along with him. In 1868, together, they moved to Sutton, Massachusetts, but left him. She later joined him during one of his business trips in Sutton and they remained together until 1877. They then shifted to Fairfield, Connecticut for John's business.
After her husband's death in 1895, she returned to Sutton where she became a librarian at the Sutton Library. Meanwhile, she also taught French and music in Sutton.
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