Champaign Co, ILGenWeb, The USGenWeb Project - Biography

John T. Mallory

SOURCE: "Portrait and Biographical Album of Champaign County, Illinois," Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1887
SURNAMES: CANDY, HENDRICKS, MALLORY, SLIDER, SPIELMAN, TAYLOR

JOHN T. MALLORY. The subject of this biography owns and occupies a fine farm of 300 acres on section 7, in Scott Township. Forty acres of this is in timber and the balance under a good state of cultivation. He has a tasteful and substantial set of farm buildings, and the place in all respects corresponds with the property of the enterprising and prosperous men about him on all sides; men who have assisted in the development and building up of this section and who made it one of the most desirable in the Prairie State.

Our subject came to this county in 1847, and since that time has been one of the most valued residents. He was born at Harpers Ferry, Va., Sept. 16, 1811, and is the son of George and Elizabeth (HENDRICKS) MALLORY, also natives of the Old Dominion. The parents first settled at Harpers Ferry and thence removed to Pickaway County, Ohio, whence, in 1837, they emigrated to this State, and located in what was then Macon, but is now Piatt County, and where the father died, about 1845. The mother afterward removed to Nebraska, where her death took place about 1863. The household circle included eleven children, three boys and eight girls.

Our subject remained a resident of his native county until 1839, when he visited this county and located a tract of 300 acres, after which he returned to Harpers Ferry and remained until 1848. He was there employed in the armory, which he had entered when a boy ten years of age.

John T. Mallory was married in 1834, in Virginia, and in the fall of 1847 started with his wife and three children overland for this State. Their outfit consisted of a wagon and two horses, and after a journey of thirty-one days they reached Piatt County, where they located and lived for the following eight and one-half years. Mr. Mallory then removed to Scott Township, of which he has been a resident since that time.

The marriage of or subject took place at Charleston, Va., the maiden of his choice being Miss Mary, daughter of Alexander and Margaret (SPIELMAN) TAYLOR, natives of Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor located at Harpers Ferry after their marriage, and there Mr. T. held the position of Inspector of the Armory. His family consisted of two sons and four daughters, and both heads of the family died at Harpers Ferry, the former about 1817, an the latter about 1820.

Mrs. Mallory was the fourth child of her parents, and was born at Harpers Ferry, Va., May 12, 1810. The offspring of her union with our subject is recorded as follows: Emma f. became the wife of David SLIDER, and died at her fathers house in Scott Township, in February, 1877; George married Miss Mary CANDY, and is farming in Scott Township, and Anna M. died when about eleven years old. Mr. Mallory officiated as postmaster at North Bend, Piatt County, for about two years. He has held the office of Supervisor two terms, and been otherwise identified with the local affairs of this section. Politically he is a member of the Republican party. He is probably the oldest Odd Fellow in the county, and in early manhood became a member of the first lodge established in his native State.