Crawford-Edwards-Lawrence County IL Archives Biographies.....Malone, A. 1819 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  A. MALONE, M. D., Palestine, was born March 20, 1819, in Gibson County, Ind.
He is a son of James Malone, born 1792, in Woodford County, Ky. He was a farmer
by occupation. He died, 1877, in Owensville, Ind. The maiden name of his wife
was Christina Hunter, who died in Owensville, Ind. She was the mother of five
children now living. Our subject went to school in Owensville, but is mainly
self-educated. He finished his medical education at the Ohio Medical College at
Cincinnati. Mr. Malone clerked in early life at Princeton and Owensville, Ind.
About five years after that, he commenced to teach school; he taught one year in
Gibson County, Ind., and almost three years in Hamilton and White Counties, Ill.
After that, he took up the study of medicine, and continued it till he graduated
in 1846, when he went to Albion, Ill., where he practiced almost two years, and
a little longer than that in Lawrenceville, Ill. Mr. Malone came to Palestine in
1850, where he has made his home ever since, keeping a general store and drugs,
as well as following his profession. In politics, Mr. Malone is neutral; he has
not voted since he helped to elect Abraham Lincoln. He has been married twice;
the first time, December, 1842, near Albion, Ill., to Miss E. Fisher, born 1819,
and died 1861, in Palestine. She was the mother of three children living-Alva
C., now married; Rosaline, also married, and Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Malone married
again, December 16, 1862, in Akron, Ohio, to Miss A. M. Bisbee, born in Union
Mills, Ind. She has one son, Percy B., born July 13, 1870. Our subject is known
as a gentleman and a scholar. He is the author of "Bible Religion," and "The Age
to Come;" both meritorious works; he has also been a contributor to the
Cincinnati Grazette, and three other political papers. Is a contributor to the
Medical Times, Chicago, the Medical Recorder, Cincinnati, and the American
Journal of Medicine, Cincinnati. Has contributed to the following religious
papers: Prophetic Watchman, Howard, Ill., the Gospel Banner, Geneva, Ill., the
Herald of the Coming Kingdom, Chicago, and the Restitution, Plymouth, Ind. His
present wife was educated by our late President, James A. Garfield, at Hiram
College, Ohio.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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