Maloney Point, an elevation of two thousand feet in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is named for this 1898 engineering graduate of the university. He served in the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico and in the Philippines from 1899 until 1901. In 1911 Governor Ben Hooper appointed him Adjutant General of the National Guard, State of Tennessee, a position he held for four years. During his military career, he selected the site of Fort Benning, Georgia.
In Knoxville Maloney’s business involved civil engineering and general contractor projects. He was an ardent hiker and camper. One of the primary leaders of the effort to secure the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, he assisted Arno Cammerer in setting boundary lines for the park. The park service accepted Maloney’s mapping of areas for purchase, and he furnished virtually all the technical information in the early stages of planning for the park.
After North Carolina thwarted a plan for the southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway (which Maloney had recommended and the park service had approved), he conceived the idea of the Foothills Parkway, which would parallel the Tennessee border of the park. He selected the route and was instrumental in obtaining the legislation required both from the Tennessee Legislature and US Congress to implement the plan. He served as president of the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association from 1944 until his death in 1952.