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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 240, 242
photo p. 241



JAMES DREHER MAITLAND.

	James Dreher Maitland, president of the Colorado Builders Supply 
Company and one of the representative business men of Denver, was born 
in Springfield, Ohio, July 2,1883, a son of William G. and Agnes S. 
(Dreher) Maitland, the former a native of Ohio, while the latter was 
born in Indiana. Removing westward, they first established their home 
at Lincoln, Nebraska, where the mother died in 1892. Afterward the 
father and his daughter and son came to Denver, where they arrived in 
the spring of 1895. Here Mr. Maitland has since resided and is engaged 
in the surety bond business. The family numbered but two children, the 
daughter being Mrs. John A. McCaw, of Denver.

	James D. Maitland, whose name introduces this review, is the 
younger and in early life he was a pupil in the public schools of 
Lincoln, while later he attended the University of Nebraska and in due 
course of time was graduated from the mechanical engineering department 
of that institution. He concentrated his efforts upon practical lines 
of business and became an employe of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad 
Company, with which he continued for about two years. He then resigned 
and removed to Union county, New Mexico, where he engaged in the live 
stock business on his own account and became one of the leading live 
stock dealers and cattle raisers of that section. He continued in Union 
county for three years and then disposed of his interests there, after 
which he returned to Denver. In the fall of 1906 he became interested 
in the Colorado Builders Supply Company, Incorporated, and now owns 
ninety-eight per cent of the stock of that company. The business is 
that of engineering and the manufacturing and handling of all kinds of 
builders' materials and supplies, including fireproofing, re-enforcing 
steel, and in tact everything needed in the line of fireproof building 
materials. Mr. Maitland is the president and manager of the business, 
which has been developed through his efforts and has become one of the 
important and profitable commercial interests of the city. He is also 
an officer of the Maitland Moritz Agency Company, conducting an 
insurance business, and this, too, is proving a growing and profitable 
concern.

	On the 25th of December, 1906, Mr, Maitland was married in Los 
Angeles, California, to Miss Pauline C. Biythe, a daughter of James M. 
and Maude (Davis) Biythe, of Denver, Colorado, the former general 
manager of the Davis Iron Works of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Maitland 
have one child, Ann, who was born in Denver, on October 3, 1915.

	Mr. Maitland is well known as a member of the Denver Athletic 
Club, the Denver Master Builders Association; Phi Delta Theta, and also 
holds membership in Park Hill Lodge, No. 148, A. F. & A. M. He is a 
prominent figure in business circles of Denver, his life illustrating 
what can be accomplished through determined and earnest effort, for 
through his persistency of purpose, close application and wide vision 
he has worked his way steadily upward. The course that he has ever 
pursued marks him as a man of high principles and Denver has profited 
by his cooperation, not merely along the line of its material 
development but also through his support of many plans and measures for 
the general good.