James Maloney was born in Waterford, Ireland on February 4, 1823. He and his parents emigrated to the United States and when he was old enough, James joined the Merchant Marine. At the age of twenty seven he was a captain. Upon leaving the service he entered the Brothers' Novitiate at Montreal in 1850 and on February 2, 1851, he received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Noah. In his short career in the classroom he taught in Quebec, Toronto and in Baltimore, Maryland, where he served as Director of Calvert Hall College. Illness caused him to be sent to a change of climate in England and then to France. But on July 16, 1858, he died at age thirty-five, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for only eight years.
