Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Maloney, James W. 1870 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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James W. Maloney
	James W. Maloney is the recorder of conveyance for Umatilla county and 
lives at Pendleton. He was born in Sullivan county, Missouri, in 1870. 
Thirteen years of his life were spent in that state, when he came to Umatilla 
county, where he has since resided.  His first location in this county was at 
Athena. He attended the public schcools in his native state and here and then 
later took a course in the state normal. After this he took up school teaching 
and followed that three years. It is quite appropriate that immediately 
following the training of the schools one should in turn give back to the 
rising generation the benefit of that training. And then there is much 
training that the teacher also is gaining while he gives. Our subject became 
thus well acquainted in this his chosen county, and laid well the foundation 
for some of his later success. After the teaching he entered the commercial 
world at Athena, and from 1891 until 1898 was occupied with the grocery 
business, and during the Cleveland administration was postmaster. He also held 
the position of treasurer of Athena and school clerk for several years of this 
time. During all of this time he was steadily advancing in the estimation of 
his fellow citizens and becoming one of the stanch and established business 
men of the county. It was the proper exemplification of a lad of the county, 
by real worth and constant application to business rising among his fellows 
until they were fully aware that he was the one to be entrusted with the 
weighty affairs of the county government which were to affect all. 
Consequently in the spring of 1898 the people called him from his business and 
set him at the recorder's desk. He served, as was his custom in all service, 
in a faithful and satisfactory manner, and so in 1900 they said that he should 
again serve at the same desk. This accounts for his present position at the 
time of this writing, and what further successes are in the path of this young 
man the future will make known. If, however, one is to gauge the future by the 
past, then the people are sure to ever find in James W. Maloney a man to be 
trusted and a man whose ability as well as enable him to occupy whatever place 
of trust is theirs to bestow in a becoming and worthy manner.
	In his fraternal associations he is as popular as in his business 
life. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and is also a K. of P. He belongs to 
the A. O. U. W. and to the K. O. T. M., and is one of the Pioneers of the 
Pacific. He is grand prelate of the K. of P.
	He was married in the fall of 1893 to Miss Nora L. Zeiger, a native of 
Missouri. Their wedding occurred in Pendleton. They have two children, Wayne 
Y. and J. Harold.
	Mr. S. A. Maloney, the father of James W., one of the pioneers of this 
county, is now living with his son in Pendleton.


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


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