Denver County, History of Colorado, BIOS: MALONE, William H. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 156, 158
photo p. 157


HON. WILLIAM H. MALONE.

	Hon. William H. Malone, attorney at law and public trustee of 
Denver, was born July 10, 1855, in Ben ton county, Mississippi, a son 
of the late Richard H. Malone, who was a native of Alabama and a 
descendant of an old Virginia family of Scotch-Irish lineage. The 
founder of the family in the new world came to America prior to the 
Revolutionary war and settled in Virginia. The grandfather, Booth 
Malone, was a Methodist minister of Virginia who became prominently 
known in that connection in both his native state and in Alabama. 
Richard H. Malone was a successful planter and slaveholder who died In 
Virginia in 1859, at the age of thirty-six years. His wife, who bore 
the maiden name of Mary Cole Cossitt, was a native of Connecticut and 
her ancestors were of French descent and became pioneer residents of 
Connecticut, where they located during the early part of the 
seventeenth century. The death of Mrs. Malone occurred in Denver in 
1912, when she had attained the very advanced age of eighty-three 
years. She was the mother of five children, four sons and a daughter, 
of whom William H. Malone of this review was the third in order of 
birth. There was a half brother. Her children are: Helen M., now the 
wife of Frank W, Crocker, who since 1872 has been a resident of Denver; 
Booth M., former district attorney and district judge of the city and 
county of Denver; William H., of this review; and Richard H., who is a 
director of the Federal Reserve Bank of the tenth district and was 
formerly a well known cracker manufacturer of Denver. Robert E. 
MacCracken, the half brother, is engaged in the real estate business 
and is local representative of five western states in the American 
Exchange National Bank of New York city.

	William H. Malone pursued his early education In the public 
schools of Geneseo, Henry county, Illinois, and afterward attended 
Beloit College of Wisconsin, from which institution he was graduated in 
1877. He then took up the study of law in the office of Lyman & 
Jackson, prominent attorneys of Chicago. He later continued his law 
reading in the office of Wells, Smith & Macon of Denver and was 
admitted to the bar in 1880. He came to this city in the summer of 1878 
and immediately after his admission to the bar he entered upon active 
practice, so that he has been a representative of the legal profession 
in this city for thirty-eight years. He has always concentrated his 
efforts and attention upon general practice and he is today one of the 
oldest attorneys actively connected with the profession in Denver. His 
experience was that which usually falls to the lot of a lawyer, who, 
unlike the merchant, cannot take up a business already established but 
must commence at the initial point, must plead and win his first case 
and work his way upward by ability, gaining his reputation and success 
by merit. His present prominence has come to him as the reward of 
earnest endeavor, fidelity to trust and recognized ability. He was 
admitted to practice before the supreme court of the United States in 
1886. He belongs to the Denver Bar Association and enjoys the regard of 
professional colleagues and contemporaries, who recognize his marked 
fidelity to the highest professional standards and ethics.

	On the 17th of April, 1890, Mr. Malone was united in marriage to 
Miss Anne R. Sullivan, a native of Kentucky and a daughter of the late 
Dr. Thomas Sullivan and Eliza Sullivan, representatives of a prominent 
old family of Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Malone have become parents of 
three children: Anne, William H., Jr., and Mary Margaret. The first two 
were born in Denver and the last named in Yonkers, New York.

	In politics Mr. Malone has always been a stanch democrat since 
age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He was appointed to the 
office of public trustee in 1909 and served for four years, while in 
1917 he was again appointed to the position and is now the incumbent 
therein, his later appointment coming to him in recognition of the 
capable service which he rendered during his first term in office. His 
family holds membership with the Presbyterian church. Mr. Malone 
started out in the business world a poor boy, and like Lincoln, 
attributes much of his success to his mother, saying that he had one of 
the best mothers that any man could have had, and that her teachings 
had marked influence upon his life. He has always been a close student 
of vital questions and issues of the day and hag kept well informed on 
leading political, economic and social problems. He has ever worked in 
the interests of the masses, especially for the poor in order to better 
their condition and ameliorate hard conditions of life. Mr. Malone was 
the author of the law on the initiative and referendum, recall of 
officers and recall of judicial decisions, and other laws of value and 
importance that are found on the statute books of the state. His entire 
career has been characterized by a spirit of progress that has brought 
splendid results for the individual, the community and the 
commonwealth, and in his public service he has looked far beyond the 
exigencies of the moment to the possibilities and opportunities of the 
future and his labors have brought results which are of value not only 
to the present generation but which will remain of great worth to the 
state for years to come.