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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    JOHN N. MALONE. Attorney-at-law. Athens, Ala., was born in Sussex County.
Va. His parents, George and Sallie (Moyler) Malone, natives of Virginia, and of
Irish descent, came to Limestone county in 1823, and here spent the rest of
their lives, the old gentleman dying in 1847, at the age of sixty-two years; his
wife having preceded him to the other world by about four years. They reared a
family of three sons and three daughters, of whom John N., and a sister are the
only ones living. One of the sons was a doctor, another a farmer.

    The subject of this sketch graduated from La Grange College, Franklin
County, Ala., as A. 15.. in 1830, and subsequently in due course received from
the same institution the degree of A. M. He studied law with J. W. McLung,
Huntsville; was admitted to the bar in 1841, and practiced law for ten years.
Then for the next succeeding ten years, though maintaining his office at Athens,
he devoted his time to planting. In 1851, he was elected to the State Senate and
was kept there for six consecutive years. After the war, he resumed the practice
of law. and farming, and in 1881, was appointed probate judge to fill out an
unexpired term of five years, the office having been vacated by the death of
John M. Townsend.

    Judge Malone was one of the trustees of the Alabama University from 1851 to
the outbreak of the war, and has been one of the trustees of the Agricultural
and Mechanical School of Auburn since its organization in 1874. Thus we find
that he has nearly all his life been interested in the cause of education. He
was a delegate to the National Convention at Baltimore in 1852, and supported
Franklin Pierce and William R. King. He took an active part in the memorable
presidential campaign of 1860; supported Stephen A. Douglas for the presidency:
was opposed to secession because he feared it would be followed by coercion and
war; but after Alabama seceded, he cast his fortunes and fate with her, and was
intensely Southern in his sentiments and in full sympathy with the Southern
Confederacy.

    John N. Malone was married in Lauderdale County in 1844, to Mary Lucy
Kernachan, who died in 1848, leaving one son, Robert, now a planter in Limestone
County. His second marriage took place in the same county in 1854, to Miss
Rebecea Simmons, and to this union have been born two sons and three daughters.
The youngest son, Henry, is a farmer; George is a merchant: two of the daughters
are married to merchants in Arkansas, and the third one is at home.

    The family belong to the Methodist Episcopal church and Judge Malone is a
Mason.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
CEREAL BELT.


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