Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Mallory, Allen F 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Mallory, Allen F., proprietor of the Commercial Hotel at Morris, belongs to 
one of the old families of Grundy County.  He was born in Ohio City, now West 
Cleveland, Ohio, November 6, 1840, a son of Hiram and Phoebe (Hall) Mallory, 
and grandson of Isaac Mallory.  The family came to Morris in 1852, and there 
Hiram Mallory became a farmer and grain dealer and was interested in canal 
boats on the Illinois and Michigan Canal.  His death occurred at Morris in 
1872.  Allen F. Mallory was in the employ of the Yoeman Printing Co. in 
boyhood, worked in a machine shop, was a grocer’s clerk, and then in 1861, 
enlisted in the Union service as a member of Battery B, First Regiment Light 
Artillery, New York Volunteers, and was a bugler.  On February 22, 1864, he 
veteranized, was enrolled in the same battery, and was discharged June 18, 
1865.  While in the service, he sent money home to his father, and the latter 
bought a canal boat of which Mr. Mallory assumed charge upon his return from 
the army.  Selling it later went to Chicago and was in a grocery business.  A 
year later he returned to the canal, and then in November, 1867, established 
himself as a grocer at Morris, and conducted this business for eighteen 
years.  He then went to Kankakee, Ill., and bought a hotel, which also bears 
the name of the Commercial.  In 1889, he bought the old Hanna & LeRoy business 
block at Morris and converted it into the present Commercial Hotel of Morris, 
which was opened December 31, 1889.  Mr. Mallory has been twice married.  He 
is a Mason, and is a member of Blaney Commandery.

pages 858-859

Additional Comments:
Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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