The Newtown bee., 1905-06-23
. HON DANIEL B. MALLORY,
A PROMINENT AND HIGHLY ESTEEMED
 RESIDENT OF SHERMAN.

Hon Daniel B. Mallory, picture of
 whose attractive home is given on
 Page l, was born May 2, 1888, in the
 Fifth school district. During his boy
 and the Academy at Sherman; also re-
 ceived still further instruction at the
 Nine Partners boarding school. He
 spent few winters teaching school,
 but his business has been principally
 arming-raising some tobacco and
 general crops. He was one of the first
 to commence raising tobacco in the
 town of Sherman. In politics he is a strong democrat. He has been a mem
 Der 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 local
 ity. For over 20 years the register of
 births, marriages and deaths is in his
 handwriting, also for many years he
 has held the office of first selectman,
 bate of his district. In 1876 he was
 elected to the lower house of tbe
 Legislature, and so we'll did be fulfill
 his duties that he was chosen, in 1877,
 to represent his district in the State
 Senate. While in the Senate the Hu-
 mane society was granted enlarged
 privileges, and he was requested to act
 as agent in his locality, position he
 has ever since held. He is and has
 been for many years a commissioner
 of the Superior court, and has assisted
 Sions. He is a member of St Peter's
 lodge, No. 21, F. & A. M., New Mill
 fora, having joined over 30 years ago
 In 1870 MT Mallory purchased the
 Henry Sherwood place at the Center,
 where he now resides. In that year
 he married Miss Ophelia Hungerford, daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Smith) Hungerford. She had long
 been 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 suitable repair, although she still re-
 tained her membership with the for
 mer church. She died in 1884, and on
 December Is, 1889, MT Mallory married
 Miss Olive Garfield, daughter of David Garfield, of Darien Center, N. Y. MT
 Mallory has two daughters, both by
 the first marriages: Alice, born June 29, 1872, married Henry B. Stephens, a large farmer of Patterson, N. Y., and they have one son-Daniel M. Miss Lillian, born July 8, 1877, is unmarried. 4>O1 uAllOP NUdIAOAy3 UAO ldUuc1 O1 Ddu- iel B. Mallory, 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. l 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 harbor, lying | three days, with music and dancing, and it being expected that they would | attempt landing and the burning of | Fairfield, as they did 30 years before, every available person was brought l into service, and he as a mere boy aS- sisted in carrying cannon balls to the | beach. When Is years of age, and not | ha ving desire for rowing life, he | decided to learn trade, and to carry out that purpose he made his way on foot to Sherman, where an uncle, George Mallory, assisted in apprentice ing him to Abraham and Edward Briggs, blackSmiths of the town, until ne should reach the age of 21 years. After completing his term of service he went to Monroe, in this county, and o1hcu uVe years TOT fel1elQ bTOUn- CTS, carriage builders, doing iron work necessary in the business. It was at this time that he commenced the sale of wagons for the firm, which he con- Linued many years. Later he returned to Sherman, and for four years con- 1ucted the shop in which he learned lis trade. In 1884 he purchased the place on which he resided till 1857, and erected blacksmith shop thereon. He also engaged in farming, and en- ;lOSed his land with stone walls. In