Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Malone, George R. July 27, 1851 - 
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GEORGE R. MALONE, junior member of the firm of Northrup & Malone, lawyers and 
real-estate brokers, Big 

Rapids, Mich., was born near Columbus, Ohio, July 27, 1851.  He is the son of 
Joseph and Maria (McCaddin) 

Malone, who moved from Columbus to Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio, when he was two 
years old.  His father died 

at that place in 1854, after which his mother removed to Canal Fulton, Stark 
Co., near the home of her 

father, John J. McCaddin, who in his younger days was a pioneer, and 
afterwards a prominent farmer and 

business man in that locality.

At the age of six years the subject of this sketch went to live with his 
uncle, where he worked on the old 

homestead of his grandfather summers and went to school winters till he was 15 
years of age.  After this 

his entire time for several years was devoted to stufy and teaching.  He 
commenced teaching at the age of 

sixteen, receiving $16 a month for his first term in Chippewa Tp., Wayne Co., 
Ohio.  After this he 

removed, with his mother and family, an older brother and sister, to near 
Lansing, Mich., where he 

continued alternately to teach and attend school till 1871.  At the age of 
twenty he was engaged as 

Principal of the schools at Grand Ledge, Eaton Co., Mich., which position he 
also held during the years 

1875-6, having spent most of the intervening time attending the Lansing High 
School and the State 

Agricultural College.

Early in life Mr. Malone entertained a strong desire to study and practice 
law, and at the age of sixteen 

he visited John McSweeny, a leading criminal lawyer of Wooster, Ohio, and 
completed arrangements to study 

with him; but this his friends dissuaded him from doing, preferring that he 
become a teacher or enter the 

ministry; however, as he always entertained a love for the study of law, 
during the last years of his 

teaching he found time to read the works of a number of leading law writers.  
After closing his second 

year's work in the schools of Grand Ledge he devoted a year almost exclusively 
to the study and practice 

of law at Bell Oak, Ingham Co.  After this he spent two years in the 
mercantile business at Bell Oak; but 

this enterprise, not being congenial to his taste, did not prove successful.

In the apring of 1881, he came to the village of Mecosta, and recommenced the 
practice of law.  He was 

soon after admitted to the Bar of Mecosta County, and in January, 1883, he 
came to Big Rapids, and the 

following summer went into partnership with Mr. C.L. Northrup, an attorney of 
several years' successful 

practice in Northern Michigan.  Soon after coming to the county Mr. Malone was 
elected member of the 

County Board of School Examiners and Secretary of that Board, which position 
he held for two years.  The 

untiring zeal with which he devoted himself to the duties of this office, and 
the consequent advancement 

in educational interests throughout the county, so identified him with the 
interests of the people that 

his work will not soon be forgotten.

Mr. Malone, though still a young man, is every where known as a mon of the 
epople; he is therefore an 

active agent in all matters tending to advance the interests of the community 
and especially of the young. 

 He is an earnest and ardent speaker, and has presented his views upon leading 
subjects of public 

interest, not only in his own county but in different parts of the State.  He 
is an active worker in the 

cause of temperance and a zealous advocate of both moral suasion and 
prohibition.  He is also a total 

abstainer himself, having never partaken of intoxicating liquors as a beverage 
in his life; neither has he 

ever used tobacco in any form.

Mr. Malone was married in Locke Tp., Ingham Co., June 30, 1875, to Miss Fanny 
E. Atkins, eldest daughter 

of Harman A. and Harriet V. Atkins, both of whom were pioneers of that 
county.  Mr. Atkins is a physician, 

having practiced in Ingham County for more than thirty years.  He is also a 
great reader, and a profound 

student of natural sciences, being the author of a work on ornithology, 
embodying his daily observations 

for more than a quarter of a century.  Mrs. Malone was born in Locke Tp., 
Ingham Co., March 5, 1854.  She 

received a liberal education and taught school serveral terms in Ingham and 
Eaton Counties before her 

marriage; she still entertaisn the same love for reading and study as that of 
her father, and so far as 

possible still gives her time to literary pursuits.  Bertha E., only child of 
Mr. and Mrs. Malone, was 

born Dec. 29, 1877.

In connection with this sketch we take pleasure in presenting the portrait of 
Mr. Malone.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co., MI.

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