The Newtown bee., 1901-09-06

chosen by his fellow citizens to almost every local0ofice, and has also repre- Sented his section in both houses of the State Legislature.
 Daniel B. Mallory was born May 2, 1888, in the Fifth School District, and during his bOyhoOd he attended the common schools and the academy at Sherman; also received still further instruction at the Nine Partner Board teaching school, but his business has been principally farming-raising some tobacco and general crops. He was one of the first to commence raising to- baccO in the town of Sherman. In politics he is strong democrat. He has been a member of most of the democratic state conventions since 1860, and from early manhood he has been regarded as one of the leaders of the party in his locality. For over twenty years the register of Births, Marriages and Deaths is in his hand writing, also for. many years he has held office of First Selectman, and for two years he was Judge of Probate of his district. In 1876 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature, and so well did he fulfill his duties that he was chosen, in 1877, to represent his district in the State Senate. While in the Senate the Humane society was granted privileges, and he was request ed to act as agent in his locality, a po- sition he has ever since held. He is and has been for many years a com missioner of the Superior Court, and has assisted many in their applications for pensions. He is a member of st. Peters Lodge, No. 20, F. S A. M., New Milford, having joined over thirty years ago.
 In 1870 MT Mallory purchased the Henry Sherwood place at the Center, on which he now resides. In that year he married Miss Ophelia Hunger ford, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Smith) Hungerford. She had long been a member of the Congregational church, and organiSt, but on moving to the Center, and seeing the dilapi- dated condition of the Union church there, she exerted her energies toward raising sufficient sum to put it in suitable repair, although she still re- tained her membership with the for mer church. She died in 1884, and on December l6, 1890, MT Mallory married Miss Olive Canfield, daughter of David Garfield, of Darien Center, N. Y. MT Mallory has two daughters, both by the first marriage: Alice, born June 29, 1862, married Henry B. Stephens,
 
 and they have one son-Daniel M Miss Lillian, born July 8, 1877, is un- married.
 Northrop Mallory, father of our sub ject, was born March ', 1903, in the town of Fairfield, and received such education as was obtainable in the common schools of his day. At an early age he went to live with Capt. James Burr, of Fairfield, who owned a merchant vessel plying between Bos- ton, New York and Southern ports. While at Alexandria, Va., he was taken very ill and carried on deck for dead, but the change revived him. During the war of 1912, three British men-of-war vessels came into the har- Dor, lying three days with music and dancing, and it being expected that they would attempt landing and the burning of Fairfield, as they did thirty years before, every available person was brought into service, and he, as mere boy, assisted in carrying cannon balls to the beach. When sixteen years of age, and not having a desire