Robert married Mary Currie on September 30, 1842. His middle name was his mother's maiden name.
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OBIT:
Another of the old school of New York merchants is dead. Robert L. Maitland of the well-known house of Robert L. Maitland & Co., died suddenly this morning at Port Washington, NJ of paralysis in his sixty-third year. The death of Mr. Maitland removes from the business community a merchant of unblemished reputation, and from private life, a Christian gentleman.
He was born in this city, of Scotch descent, his family being related by marriage to the Lenox family. Beginning life with an inherited taste for the counting room and large means at his command, Mr. Maitland soon took place in the front rank of the mercantile community, as a junior partner in the house of his father, Robert Maitland.
For more than thirty years he has been in business in this city and the rewards of strict business integrity and enterprise were shown in a comparatively few years in a splendid fortune and a reputation such as the merchants of olden time enjoyed in a much greater measure than the business men of the present day.
The house was engaged in banking and commission business in tobacco and western produce, and its transactions have lately been on a very heavy scale. In the article of tobacco alone, the firm was for many years the largest receivers in this city. Mr. Maitland was somewhat eccentric in manner and while those who knew him the least were somewhat prone to judge him hastily, all with whom he had dealings accord him the name of strictly honorable and upright businessman.
Mr. Maitland was a constant attendant at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Fifth Avenue and Nineteenth Street, and in all church charities and enterprises in which his persuasion was concerned, his name invariably headed the list with the most generous contribution. It is relayed that more than one Presbyterian clergyman has traveled through Europe at the expense of his private purse, and that often he extended their leave of absence six months, and accompanied the furlough by an additional draft for a thousand or two. In private charities he gave constantly, the many poor families know, what the public never will, the extent of his bountenance. The number of ostentatious, upright and conscientious men but too few, and the death of Mr. Maitland removes one more.
Evening Post (NY), December 15, 1870
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Another of the old school of New York merchants is dead. Robert L. Maitland of the well-known house of Robert L. Maitland & Co., died suddenly this morning at Port Washington, NJ of paralysis in his sixty-third year. The death of Mr. Maitland removes from the business community a merchant of unblemished reputation, and from private life, a Christian gentleman.
He was born in this city, of Scotch descent, his family being related by marriage to the Lenox family. Beginning life with an inherited taste for the counting room and large means at his command, Mr. Maitland soon took place in the front rank of the mercantile community, as a junior partner in the house of his father, Robert Maitland.
For more than thirty years he has been in business in this city and the rewards of strict business integrity and enterprise were shown in a comparatively few years in a splendid fortune and a reputation such as the merchants of olden time enjoyed in a much greater measure than the business men of the present day.
The house was engaged in banking and commission business in tobacco and western produce, and its transactions have lately been on a very heavy scale. In the article of tobacco alone, the firm was for many years the largest receivers in this city. Mr. Maitland was somewhat eccentric in manner and while those who knew him the least were somewhat prone to judge him hastily, all with whom he had dealings accord him the name of strictly honorable and upright businessman.
Mr. Maitland was a constant attendant at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Fifth Avenue and Nineteenth Street, and in all church charities and enterprises in which his persuasion was concerned, his name invariably headed the list with the most generous contribution. It is relayed that more than one Presbyterian clergyman has traveled through Europe at the expense of his private purse, and that often he extended their leave of absence six months, and accompanied the furlough by an additional draft for a thousand or two. In private charities he gave constantly, the many poor families know, what the public never will, the extent of his bountenance. The number of ostentatious, upright and conscientious men but too few, and the death of Mr. Maitland removes one more.
Evening Post (NY), December 15, 1870
Robert married Mary Currie on September 30, 1842. His middle name was his mother's maiden name.
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OBIT:
Another of the old school of New York merchants is dead. Robert L. Maitland of the well-known house of Robert L. Maitland & Co., died suddenly this morning at Port Washington, NJ of paralysis in his sixty-third year. The death of Mr. Maitland removes from the business community a merchant of unblemished reputation, and from private life, a Christian gentleman.
He was born in this city, of Scotch descent, his family being related by marriage to the Lenox family. Beginning life with an inherited taste for the counting room and large means at his command, Mr. Maitland soon took place in the front rank of the mercantile community, as a junior partner in the house of his father, Robert Maitland.
For more than thirty years he has been in business in this city and the rewards of strict business integrity and enterprise were shown in a comparatively few years in a splendid fortune and a reputation such as the merchants of olden time enjoyed in a much greater measure than the business men of the present day.
The house was engaged in banking and commission business in tobacco and western produce, and its transactions have lately been on a very heavy scale. In the article of tobacco alone, the firm was for many years the largest receivers in this city. Mr. Maitland was somewhat eccentric in manner and while those who knew him the least were somewhat prone to judge him hastily, all with whom he had dealings accord him the name of strictly honorable and upright businessman.
Mr. Maitland was a constant attendant at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Fifth Avenue and Nineteenth Street, and in all church charities and enterprises in which his persuasion was concerned, his name invariably headed the list with the most generous contribution. It is relayed that more than one Presbyterian clergyman has traveled through Europe at the expense of his private purse, and that often he extended their leave of absence six months, and accompanied the furlough by an additional draft for a thousand or two. In private charities he gave constantly, the many poor families know, what the public never will, the extent of his bountenance. The number of ostentatious, upright and conscientious men but too few, and the death of Mr. Maitland removes one more.
Evening Post (NY), December 15, 1870
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OBIT:
Another of the old school of New York merchants is dead. Robert L. Maitland of the well-known house of Robert L. Maitland & Co., died suddenly this morning at Port Washington, NJ of paralysis in his sixty-third year. The death of Mr. Maitland removes from the business community a merchant of unblemished reputation, and from private life, a Christian gentleman.
He was born in this city, of Scotch descent, his family being related by marriage to the Lenox family. Beginning life with an inherited taste for the counting room and large means at his command, Mr. Maitland soon took place in the front rank of the mercantile community, as a junior partner in the house of his father, Robert Maitland.
For more than thirty years he has been in business in this city and the rewards of strict business integrity and enterprise were shown in a comparatively few years in a splendid fortune and a reputation such as the merchants of olden time enjoyed in a much greater measure than the business men of the present day.
The house was engaged in banking and commission business in tobacco and western produce, and its transactions have lately been on a very heavy scale. In the article of tobacco alone, the firm was for many years the largest receivers in this city. Mr. Maitland was somewhat eccentric in manner and while those who knew him the least were somewhat prone to judge him hastily, all with whom he had dealings accord him the name of strictly honorable and upright businessman.
Mr. Maitland was a constant attendant at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Fifth Avenue and Nineteenth Street, and in all church charities and enterprises in which his persuasion was concerned, his name invariably headed the list with the most generous contribution. It is relayed that more than one Presbyterian clergyman has traveled through Europe at the expense of his private purse, and that often he extended their leave of absence six months, and accompanied the furlough by an additional draft for a thousand or two. In private charities he gave constantly, the many poor families know, what the public never will, the extent of his bountenance. The number of ostentatious, upright and conscientious men but too few, and the death of Mr. Maitland removes one more.
Evening Post (NY), December 15, 1870
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