Logan County, West Virginia Biography of Frank J. MALONE ************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: Material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor. Submitted by Valerie Crook, , July 1999 ************************************************************************** The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 163-164 FRANK J. MALONE. Efficiency is the keynote of some men's success. Prosperity and honors do not come to them through outside influence or the forcible pressure of monied backing, but because of their own innate capability and knowledge of the affairs they are called upon to administer. There has been no easy road for these men to travel. Each step forward has been made by an appreciable effort, but with them there have been few backward tracings. One of the men of Huntington who has thus achieved success is Frank J. Malone, now well known as a coal operator of Huntington, who is secretary-treasurer of the Malone-Elk- horn Coal Company of Beaver Creek, Kentucky, and of the Logan Thin Vein Coal Company of Logan, West Virginia. Mr. Malone was born at Huntington, West Virginia, October 22, 1891, and is a son of Patrick H. and Sallie M. (Johnson) Malone. His paternal grandfather was a native of Ireland, whence he immigrated to the United States in young manhood and settled at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where he resided for several years. Later he lived at Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia, and as a pioneer of the early days located at Marmet, West Vir- ginia, where he was the stone contractor on the bridge work for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company in the New River District. He died at Marmet prior to the birth of his grandson. His wife, Allie Malone, who was born in Ireland in 1818, died at Glen Jean, West Virginia, at the home of her son, in 1914. Patrick H. Malone, now a resident of Huntington, was born February 22, 1858, at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and was reared and educated at Richmond, Virginia, and Charleston, West Virginia. When still a young man he accompanied the family to Marmet, West Virginia, where he was married, and where he resided for a time while employed as a locomotive engineer by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company. Later for a time he lived at Charleston, and then came to Huntington, still continuing to be em- ployed by the same line. When he left the Chesapeake & Ohio it was to join the Norfolk & Western Railway, and for a time he lived at Dingess, West Virginia, but in 1897 returned to Huntington, and in addition to working as an engineer also engaged in business as a stone-cutter and con- tractor, having been trained along that line by his father when a youth. In 1903 he gave up railroading and became superintendent of mines for the New River Company of MacDonald, West Virginia, although residing at Stuart, West Virginia. In 1904 he moved to Glen Jean, this state, where he held the position of deputy sheriff of Fayette County for four years. On January 1, 1909, he became jus- tice of the peace, an office which he held until December 31, 1912, and was then appointed state prohibition agent of Fay- ette County, occupying that position until 1916. Mr. Malone then took a vacation of about two years, and in 1918 re- turned to Huntington and became a traveling salesman for the Keystone Lubricating Company of Philadelphia, cover- ing the Norfolk & Western, the Guyan Valley and the Ken- tucky fields. On January 1, 1920, he entered the field as a coal operator, and at the present time is president of the Malone-Elkhorn Coal Company, with mines at Beaver Creek, Kentucky. He resides in a pleasant and attractive home at No. 625 Sixth Avenue, Huntington. Mr. Malone married Miss Sallie M. Johnson, who was born at Covington, Vir- ginia, and to them there have been born the following children: Annie, the wife of Philip A. Taggart, of Mount Hope, West Virginia, a freight conductor for the Chesa- peake & Ohio Railway Company; Rosa, who is unmarried, resides with her parents; James W., who during the World war was in the locomotive engineers' branch of the service for one year at Carter, Illinois, and is now cashier for a wholesale commission house at Washington, D. C., married Juanita Masoncup, of Staunton, Virginia; Patrick O., who saw sixteen months of overseas service during the World war, going over with the Nineteenth Division, A. E. F., with the rank of lieutenant while in France, and in Germany was a member of the Motor Transport Corps, Army of Occupa- tion, now a resident of Hinton, West Virginia, and a locomotive engineer for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; Frank J., of this review; Eddie, superintendent of mines for the Whipple Collieries Company, of Whipple, West Vir- ginia, who married Pansy Rogers, of Winona, this state; Alice, who is unmarried and resides with her parents; Wil- liam A., manager of a commissary for the miners at Beaver Creek, Kentucky; Kathleen, a graduate of the Huntington High School and of a normal school course at Marshall College, Huntington, and now a popular and efficient teacher in the public schools of Hnntington; John, a student at Fishburne Military Academy, Waynesboro, Virginia, who resides with his parents; and Nellie, a student in the Hunt- ington Junior High School. Frank J. Malone received his early education in the public schools of Fayette County, West Virginia, following which he pursued a course at the Dunsmore Business College, Staunton, Virginia, and was graduated therefrom in 1910. He then entered the employ of the New River Company of MacDonald, West Virginia, where he was a clerk until Sep- tember, 1910, and at that time became associated with his father, who was serving as justice of the peace and with whom he remained for a period of three years. Mr. Malone was then appointed by the late Judge S. D. Littlepage as auditor at Charleston for the liquidation of 2-cent railroad fares, and held that position until May 5, 1914, when he became assistant sales agent for the New River District for the Chesapeake & Ohio Coal and Coke Company of New York City, retaining that post until 1917. On July 10, 1918, at Richmond, Virginia, Mr. Malone enlisted in the United States Army, and shortly thereafter was sent to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he was as- signed to the Tank Corps. He embarked for overseas Oc- tober 6, 1918, arriving in England fifteen days later and in France, October 28. He was sent to Northern France with the Three Hundred and Eightieth Tank Corps Replacement Company at Longeau, France, but was transferred to the Three Hundred and First Brigade, Company A, Three Hun- dred and Twenty-ninth Battalion. Mr. Malone, who was advanced to the rank of sergeant, returned to the United States with a splendid record March 13, 1919, and was honorably discharged at Camp Meade, Maryland, April 9, 1919. At that time he returned to Hnntington and was pay-roll auditor for all the mines of W. E. Deegans coal interests, but resigned February 1, 1920, to become a coal operator. He is now secretary-treasurer and a director in the Malone-Elkhorn Coal Company of Beaver Creek, Ken- tucky, and in the Logan Thin Vein Coal Company of Logan, West Virginia. He likewise is a partner in the Beaver Creek Mercantile Company, a leading general store at Beaver Creek. His Huntington offices are situated in the Deegans-Noonan Building, 1122-1/2 Fourth Avenue. Mr. Malone is a stockholder and director in the Floyd County Bank at Allen, Kentucky, and the Bank of Glen Jean, West Virginia. Fraternally he is affiliated with MacDonald Lodge No. 103, A. F. and A. M.; Sewell Valley Chapter No. 24, R. A. M., Thnrman, West Virginia; Mount Hope Commandery No. 22, K. T., of Mount Hope, West Virginia; and Beni-Kedem Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Charleston. He is unmarried.