Majette, Mark Marsden – Malone, Booth
Majette, Mark Marsden
lawyer, public official, writer, was born Sept. 19, 1865, in Hertford county, N. C. He attended the university of North Carolina, and soon attained prominence in the practice of law in his native state. He has been mayor of Chapel Hill, and also of Columbia, N. C.; and has been prominently identified with the public affairs of his county and state. In literature he has contributed articles to the foremost magazines; and is a correspondent of several newspapers.
Majors, Thomas J
soldier, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born June 25, 1841, in Jefferson county, Iowa. He was a member of the territorial council; and when Nebraska was admitted as a state served in the first state senate, and was re-elected. He was elected a contingent member of congress in 1876 and 1878; was elected a representative from Nebraska to the forty-fifth congress to fill a vacancy; and was again elected a contingent member of the fortysixth congress.
Makin, Thomas
author, poet, was born about 1665. He was the author of two Latin poems addressed to James Logan, which were found among his papers at his death. He died in 1733, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Malbone, Francis
congressman, United States senator, was born in 1757, in Newport, R. I. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1793 to 1797; and was a senator in congress in 1809. He died June 4, 1809, in Washington, D. C.
Malcolm, James Peller
artist, author, was born in August, 1767, in Philadelphia, Pa. He began painting and engraving in 1787. He went to London, worked for the Gentleman's Magazine, and drew and engraved plates for historical and antiquarian works. He published Lonainium Redivivum, or an Ancient History and Modern Description of London; Excursion in the Counties of Kent, Gloucester, etc.; Letters Between the Rev. James Granger and Many Eminent Men; First Impressions, or Sketches from Art and Nature; Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London; Miscellaneous Anecdotes; and An Historical Sketch of the Art of Caricaturing. He died April 5, 1815.
Malcolm, Norman E
educator, lawyer, legislator, was born June 21, 1862, in Butte county, Cal. He served as a member of the thirty-second assembly of the California state legislature.
Malcom, Howard
educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1799, in Philadelphia. He was a baptist clergyman; and one of the founders of the American Tract society. He was the author of Nature and Extent of the Atonement; Bible Dictionary; Christian Rule of Marriage; and Travels in Southeastern Asia. He died March 25, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Malcom, Thomas Shields
clergyman, author, was born March 23, 1821, in Hudson, N. Y. In 1846 he went to Philadelphia as corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Publication society. His only publication was a tract entitled One Honest Effort, which has appeared in eight different languages, and of which several milion copies have been circulated. He died Jan. 5, 1886, in Philadelphia.
Male, Job
banker, philanthropist, was born Aug. 24, 1808, in England. In 1884 he built and gave to the city of Plainfield a library and art gallery, to be known as the Job Male library and art gallery. This gift is valued at $25,000, and the building already contains works of art worth $10,000 and about 7,000 books.
Mallalieu, Willard Francis
clergyman, bishop, was born Dec. 11, 1828, in Sutton, Mass. He received his education at the East Greenwich academy, R. I.; and attended the Wesleyan academy of Wilbraham, Mass.; and the Wesleyan university of Middletown, Conn.
He filled pastorates in his church for a quarter of a century; and was elected bishop of the methodist episcopal a church at the general conference held in Philadelphia in 1884. He has visitea all the countries in Europe but three; also Mexico, India, China, Korea and Japan, in supervising the world-encircling missions of the methodist episcopal church. For two years he was presiding elder of the Boston district of the New England conference; and as bishop is located in the Buffalo diocese.
Mallary, Rollin Carolus
congressman, was born May 27, 1784, in Cheshire, Conn. He represented the state of Vermont in congress from 1820 to 1831. He died April 16, 1831, in Baltimore, Md.
Mallery, Garrick
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born April 17, 1784, in Middlebury, Conn. During 1828-31 he was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature; and 1831-36 was presiding judge of the third judicial district. In 1836 he moved to Philadelphia; and for several years was master in chancery of the supreme court. He died July 6, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mallery, Garrick
soldier, ethnologist, author, was born April 23, 1831, in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was an army officer in charge of the bureau of ethnology from its foundation in 1879. He was the author of Calendar of the Dakota Language; Introduction to the Study of Sign Language Among North American Indians; Greeting by Gesture; israelite and Indian, a Parallel in Planes of Culture; and Picture Writing of the American Indians. He died in 1894.
Mallett, Frank James
dean of Laramie cathedral, was born in Kings Lynn, England. He has filled rectorships in southern Ohio and Marquette; and is now dean of Laramie cathedral. He is the author of several hymns and carols, and is also a prilliant lecturer.
Mallette, Henry R
merchant, state legislator, was born Feb. 23, 1861, in Hogansburg, N. Y. He moved to Minnesota in 1877; and is a successful merchant at Foreston. He has filled numerous positions of trust; was president of the city council for three terms; and in 1897 was elected a member of the Minnesota state legislature.
Mallory, Francis
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843.
He diea March 26, 1860, in Norfolk.
Mallory, George R
business man, insurance, was born July 4, 1834, in Brunswick county, Va. For many years he was engaged in the fire and life insurance business; and is now clerk of the county court at Lawrenceville, Va. He has been prominently identified in the political affairs of his county and state, and has filled important positions in various fraternal orders.
Mallory, George Scovill
educator, journalist, was born June 5, 1838, in Watertown, Conn. He was assistant professor of ancient languages in Trinity in 1862-64, and then held the professorship of literature and oratory till 1872. Since 1866 he has edited the Churchman, a weekly religious journal published in New York city.
Mallory, Meredith
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1839 to 1841.
Mallory, Robert
agriculturist, congressman, was born Nov. 15, 1815, in Madison county, Va. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-sixth congress; and re-elected to the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth congresses.
Mallory, Rufus
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 10, 1831, in Coventry county, N. Y. In 1858 he settled in Oregon; and was elected prosecuting attorney for the first judicial district. In 1862 he was elected to the state legislature; and after serving one session was appointed prosecuting attorney for the third judicial district, which office he held until 1866. In that year he was elected a representative from Oregon to the fortieth congress. In 1892 he was president of the republican state convention of Portland, Ore., in which city he practices law.
Mallory, Stephen R
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1813, in the West Indies. He was a senator in congress from Florida, having been elected in 1851, serving continuously by re-election until 1861. He was expelled in 1861, and took part in the rebellion as secretary of the confederate navy. He died Nov. 9, 1873, in Pensacola, Fla.
Mallory, Stephen Russell
naval officer, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 2, 1848, in Columbia, S. C. In 1869 he graduated from the Georgetown college at Washington, D. C.
He entered confederate army in Virginia in the fall of 1864, and in the spring of 1865 was appointed midshipman in confederate navy. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Louisiana in 1872, and removed to Pensacola, Fla., in 1874, and began the practice of law.
He was elected to lower house of the legislature in 1876, and was elected to the senate in 1880 and was re-elected in 1884.
He was elected to the fifty-second congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Malone, Booth
lawyer, orator. In 1885 he was mayor of Beloit, Wis., and was three times elected district attorney of Rock county.
Since 1890 he has practiced his profession in Denver, Col., and has attained eminence as a forcible and eloquent speaker. He has twice been elected president of the republican state league of Colorado; and is chairman of the congressional committee of the first district. For four years he has been first assistant district attorney of Arapahoe county, in which Denver is located, and out of thirty-six murder cases which he has tried within the past six years, he has secured conviction in thirtyone cases.