Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-25
A Distingu ished Career.

He was the son of the late president
Judge OF the circuit court of Pennsylvania
and direct descendant from Peter NAL
lery, who arrived in Boston from England
in 1888. Several Of his ancestors were
military officers in the colonial service
and in the revolutionary war, and, through
his mother, he was descended from John
Harris. founder OF Harrisburg, and William
Maclay, first United States Senator from
Pennsylvania. He was graduated at Yale
College in the class of 80 and three years
later received the degree of LII. ID. from the
year he was admitted to the bar of Phila-
delphia, where he practiced law and en-
gagged in editorial work until the first call
for troops in the civil war. He was ap-
point from civil life, and held the actual
rank OF captain, seventy-first Pennsylvania
infantry June 4, 1861.
He was in the field during the war from
1851 to 1854. He entered the veteran re-
serve corps with date Of July 1, 1864. as
lieutenant colorel taird regiment veteran
reserve corps. He was appointed captain
forty-thrd United States infantry July %,
1866 and served in various positions In
Virginia, for time being acting governor of
the state. In August, 1870. he reported to
the office of the chief signal officer, United
States army, and was on duty assist
ant and for long periods as acting chief
signal officer until August IsIG. when:
having been assigned to the first United
States infantry, he was ordered to Fort
Rice, d T., where he made Investigations
into the sign language photographs and
mythologies of the North American In
dams, resulting in an order of the Secre-
tary of War to report to Maj. J. w. Pow
ell, in charge Of the geological and geo.
graphical survey of the Rocky mountain
region. He was retired July 1, 1879, for
wounds received in line of duty and ac-
cepted the appointment in the bureau of
ethnology.
Connected with Many Societies.
Col. Mallory was an active or honorary
member of several scientific and literary
societies in Europe. as well as the United
States. and was a founder and president
Of the Anthropological Society and Of the
Cosmos Club, formerly president Of the
Philosophical Society and of the Literary
Society, vice president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence, and president OF the Joint commits
sion of the five scientific societies of Wash
ington. He was one of the founders and
the president Of the local Yale Alumni As
ISOLATION. He contributed largely to pc
riodcal literature, but his most important
works, some of which have been trans
lated into other languages, dealt with the
North American Indians, subject In
which he was a recognized authority. He
had but recently completed a volume, en-
titled Picture Writing Of the American
Indians" which was published this year
as an extract from the tenth annual re-
port Of the bureau Of ethnology. This
work is regarded IS the effort Of his life,
and Is looked upon as a wonderfully able
and scholarly treatise A second volume
was all but completed before his death
and will probably be issued before very
long.
The funeral will take place from his late
residence tomorrow afternoon at 100
O'Clock. The honorary pallbearers will be
DR.. Fletcher, Prof. Langley, Col. /. Ed
wards Clarke. Gen. Wright, Gen. Vincent,
Maj. Powell, Dr. Yarrow and Mr.. Thomp-
son Alexander.