Logan County, West Virginia -   Biography: PATRICK F. MALONEY

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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1928 - Volume 5, page 298-299

        PATRICK F. MALONEY is a veteran of the coal mining industry of West
Virginia. It is a business he has followed since boyhood, and at the
present time he is superintendent of the Sun Beam Mine at Fort Branch,
Logan County.
        He was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, August 7, 1878, son of John
and Ellen (Malley) Maloney. His mother now resides with him. His father was
also a miner, and died in 1908. Patrick F. Maloney had the opportunity of
common schools, but at the age of fifteen went to work in and around coal
mines, and there has been no important interruption to that work down to
the present time. He started with what was known as the Y. & O. Company,
now the Pittsburgh Railway & Coal Company of Pittsburgh. Following that he
was with the Pittsburgh-Buffalo company, the United States Coal & Coke
Company at Trig River, West Virginia, the H.C. Frick Coke Company, and has
performed every grade of service from a worker underground to mine foreman
and superintendent.
        Mr. Maloney first became superintendent of the Sun Beam Mine in
1913. In 1918 he left to become superintendent of the Brush Collieries at
Cold River, Virginia. Then in 1926 he returned to Fort Branch. The Sun Beam
Coal Company has daily output of from 500 to 600 tons of coal. The Sun Beam
Mine was first opened in 1908 and was operated as an independent producer.
In 1919 it was taken over by the present company, which is capitalized at
$250,000.
        Mr. Maloney is a capable mine superintendent and a very popular
figure in his home locality. He married, in 1900, Miss Rose Hill, a
daughter of Mike Hill. She died in 1913, leaving two children, Francis,
born in 1906, and Isadore, born in 1908. Mr. Maloney in 1918 married Lythi
Kasee, daughter of Richard and Minnie (Bays) Kasee. Her father was a farmer
of Carter County, Kentucky. Her grandfather, Col. Sam Bays, was a Federal
soldier in the Civil War.


Transcribed by <AUPQ38A@prodigy.com> (MRS GINA M REASONER), 1999
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