SMITH HENDERSON MALLORY LAID TO REST Short Sketch of the Life of Lucas County's Prominent Citizen. A Man Who will be Greatly Missed. (The Chariton Herald, Thursday, April 2, 1903, Page 1) The death of Hon. S. H. Malory last Thursday was not unexpected by the citizens of this community, and yet it was a shock that could not be realized, and is not yet realized, by them. Mr. Mallory was so much a part of Chariton that it does not seem possible that he is gone. He was so closely identified with every progressive movement in Chariton that his absence will be a sorrowful remembrance times without number in the years to come. And close as Mr. Mallory was connected with the best interests of Chariton, he did not belong to our city alone, nor to Lucas county alone. Nor indeed to Iowa alone. He was a man who was known and respected from east to west. The HERALD editor has known him personally but two years, but we knew of him long before, and can say - what can not often be said of successful business men - that a personal acquaintance with him only increased our respect and admiration for him. Tremendous in energy, tireless in activity, and very successful in business, he yet took time to enjoy his quiet home life at "Ilion," the work of the church of his choice. Mr. Mallory was a railroad builder on a large scale. He was a leader among leaders, a man who could think on vast lines and see far in advance of his times, and yet at his home city he was quiet and unostentatious, never boastful or even proud of his accomplishments, and always seeking how he could aid his home community in that truest form of philanthropy - by teaching and helping it to aid itself. Branch railroads to aid Chariton were promoted by him, and at the time of his death he was organizing a company to give electric (railroad, FDM) connection to Knoxville and farther east. With his aid the great coal mines near Chariton have become a reality. Largely through his influence Chariton has become noted for beautiful architecture. The first thoroughbred cattle and draft horses were brought to Lucas county by him, and his fruit farm has always been a model for the other farmers of this section and a stimulus to do better in their works. The beautiful Episcopal church stands as a monument to his devotion to religious work. In these and hundreds of other things, Mr. Mallory's great influence will be missed, and when the town clock - a gift from him - was stopped last Thursday at the moment of his death, it was a true signification of how constantly he will be missed by everyone in his home city. No tribute can do justice to the life of such a man. No obituary can give a proper idea of the accomplishments of his life. But the facts recorded below will give the friends of Mr. Mallory, who are located from ocean to ocean, some small conception of the great work which he crowded into his sixty-seven years. And we hope that what he has done, in rising from the life of a poor lad to a commanding position in the world of wealth and influence, by sheer force of will and energy, and entirely without the aid of special education or influential friends, will be an inspiration to everyone who has known him, or who will read these words. Mr. Mallory's life was the life of a real man - self-reliant, zealous, ambitious, and tirelessly energentic; and then after success came, still liberal in heart and hand, and striving always to help those around him, as well as himself, to fulfill their truest and best mission in life. Died, at his home, Ilion, on the morning of March 26th, 1903, of pernicious aenemia, caused by cancer of the stomach, Smith Henderson Mallory, aged sixty-seven years and three months. At 9:30 o'clock on Saturday morning Rev. F. W. Henry, rector of St. Andrews Episcopal church, of which the deceased was a member, conducted a brief service at the home, after which the remains were conveyed to the church, where they lay in state until 1:30 o'clock. At two o'clock the public services were held, conducted by Rector Henry and Rev. Joseph Russell, rector emeritus. A more beautiful or impressive service could not be imagined. The prayer book ritual was used, the choir rendering appropriate selections. The offerings of flowers were very profuse and very beautiful. Large banks and handsome designs of them surrounded the casket, expressing at once the sorrow and respect of the givers and the love of the deceased for God's handiwork. During the service the business houses of Chariton were closed, by proclamation from the mayor, and flags were displayed at half mast. A long procession of sorrowing friends followed the remains to their last resting place in the Chariton cemetery. The honorary pall bearers were Messers. E. A. Temple of Des Moines, S. L. Bestow, Joseph Braden, J. A. McKlveen, Elijah Lewis and J. A. Brown. The active pall bearers were Messrs. F. R. Crocker, W. P. Beem, B. R. VanDyke, S. Oppenheimer, C. R. Kirk and J. A. Penick. Smith Henderson Mallory, son of Smith L. and Jane Henderson Mallory, was born December 2, 1835, at Croton Mills about four miles east of Penn Yan, Yates County, New Yourk. His grandfather Meredith Mallory, a lieutenant in the war of 1812, was one of the earliest settlers of that county, Mr. Mallory received a common school education at Penn Yan and from there attended the academy of John W. (illegible) at Danbury, Conn. (Two lines of type illegible) character, and early in life he was prompted by these traits to start in the world's race determined to carve his own fortune. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, he left the old homestead in New York for Batavia, Illinois, where at that time his grandfather and uncle, John VanNortwick, chief engineer in the construction of the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad from Elgin west, resided, and in December of the same year he secured his first business position in the store of P. J. Burchell, of St. Charles, Ill. This occupation as clerk in a country store, while it trained him in the formation of business habits, and afforded him an opportunity to earn his own living, was too monotonous and circumscribed for one possessing his ambition and capabilities, and he looked around for a widee field. He stayed in this position until the following June, when he secured a place more in accordance with his tastes, in the engineer corps of the Galena & Chicago Union Railway. When the surveys for the Aurora branch extension, from Aurora to Mendota, were begun in August, 1851, Mr. Mallory was promoted to rodman, and during the construction in 1853, was again promoted, and before the completion of the tracks to Mendota, he was offered and accepted the position of engineer in charge. Upon the completion of the Central Military Tract Railroad, from Mendota to Galesburg, Col. J. M. Berrian was made chief engineer of the whole line, the road now known as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, which was completed to Burlington, Iowa, in 1855, and Mr. Mallory remained with him until the spring of 1857, when, noting the rapid advances made in the value of real estate, he resigned his position and engaged in the real estate business at Fairfield, just at the time the real estate boom of 1856 was collapsing. On March 22, 1858, he was married to Annie Louise Ogden, daughter of Mordecai Ogden, of Penn Yan, N.Y. Soon after h is marriage he returned to Fairfield, where he received the appointment of resident engineer of the Fairfield division of the Burlington & Missouri River Road, which was then being constructed between (illegible) and Ottumwa. On the completion of the track across the Fairfield division, December 1, 1858, he was appointed roadmaster with headquarters in Burlington. In the spring of 1861, he resigned the position of roadmaster to take charge of the location and construction of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway, between Aurora and Chicago. When this work was completed, he, like many others, at that time, was stricken with the oil fever and went to Pennsylvania to engage in the oil business. His stay there was short, for in the fall of 1865, he returned again to Iowa, taking the contract for the construction of the bridges from Ottumwa west on the B. & M. Ry. After brief residences in Ottumwa and Albia, Mr. Mallory came to Chariton in the spring of 1867, buying property and building a home. The bridge contracts to the Missouri river were completed in the fall of 1869, and Mr. Mallory then became division superintendent of the road, with headquarters at Creston, afterwards changed to Chariton. In the year 1870, he organized and established the First National Bank of Chariton, an institution which he, as president, had just cause to view with gratification. In the year 1871 he was appointed chief engineer of the B. & M. Ry., which position he held until 1873, when he resigned to engage in general contracting business. In conjunction with John Fitzgerald and Martin Flynn, under the firm name of Fitzgerald, Mallory & Flynn, he constructed some very heavy work on the Cincinnati Southern R.R., the A.T. & S. F. in Colorado, and the B. & M. R. R. in Nebraska. In the year 1875, Mr. Mallory was elected president of the Iowa Centennial Commission, but owing to the pressure of his private business, with many important contracts on hand, he resigned the office. In 1877, notwithstanding his political faith (he being a staunch democrat, affiliating with a party vastly in the minority in Lucas county,) and his public and long continued connection with railroads, the people marking the public spirit shown by him during his residence among them, and having confidence in his integrity and business qualifications, elected him to represent them in the legislature of the state, and the record he there made fully substantiated the good judgment and wisdom of the electors. In 1878 he was president of the Chariton, Des Moines & Southern R.R., and in 1881 was elected Vice President and General Manager of the Fulton Co. Narrow Guage R.R. In 1888 he was elected President of this road, which position he retained until his death. During the year 1881 he organized the First National Bank of Creston, Iowa, and in April, 1886, the Fitzgerald & Mallory Construction Co., of which he was elected President. This company constructed about six hundred miles of railroad in Kanasa and Colorado (now a part of the Missouri Pacific system) accomplishing the entire work in the brief period of eighteen months. Mr. Mallory spent much time in the direction and furnishing of the Iowa building at the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1893, Governor Boles having appointed him commissioner and the commission having elected him chairman of the executive committee. He was made a Mason at Batavia, Ill., about the year 1856; a Royal Arch Mason at St. Charles in 1864; a Knight Templar at Osceola, September, 1875. In May, 1878, he joined the Chariton Lodge, I.O.O.F., No. 64, and was also a member of the M.W.A. Camp No. 272. Amid all the cares of an engrossing business life, Mr. Mallory always found time and thought for sincere devotion to the service of his Master, Jesus Christ, and the religious services of the church. He united with the Episcopal church in Chariton, April, 1868, being one of the first confirmation class ever formed in this place. From that time until the day of his death he was a faithful and consistent communicant, never permitting his worldly affairs to detain him from attendance at the services of the church, which he gave freely of his time and money whenever either were needed for the upbuilding of his faith. He was largely interested in the erection of the magnificent church building of St. Andrew's parish, and the last work which he planned and executed in his life time was the rebuilding of the rectory property. Mr. Mallory was warden of St. Andrews parish since 1871, a member of the standing committee of the Diocese of Iowa for many years, and a delegate to the general convention of the Episcopal church at many of its triennial sessions. While Mr. Mallory was generally looked upon as what is termed a "railroad man," having been actively engaged so much of his life in railroad enterprises, building, equipping and superintending, yet ever since his location in Lucas Co., he has been comparatively as largely interested in agriculture and might as justly be called a farmer. His home farm, on which his residence, "Ilion," is built, comprises about one thousand acres. He brought the first blooded cattle and draft horses to Lucas Co., and mainly through his enterprises in this direction, this county stands today at the front in the blue grass region for the superiority of the horses raised in its borders. During the years that Mr. Mallory has resided in Lucas Co., it is safe to assert that there has been no public enterprise organized in this community for its benefit that he has not been prominently identified with. Energetic, far seeing, with indomitable will-power; independent in thought, yet cosmopolitan in his views, he has well earned a place in the memory of the people of Iowa. He recognized himself as one of the public, and thoroughly understood that whatever stood for public interests also stood for his individual interests, and yet in his success he was never selfish. To those who met with reverses his ear was always open, and not only his ear but his hand also. Had Chariton more such men within its borders as S.H. Mallory has proved himself to be, it would soon grow to be a city in fact as it is now in name. Relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Allen Mallory, Misses Josie and Ruth Mallory, Creston, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Harvey, Chicago, Ill.; Mr. A.D. Mallory, Batavia, Ill.; Mr. E.M. Smith, Batavia, Ill. Among the friends who came were Mr. Daniel Baum, Omaha, Nebraska; Mr. Edw. A. Temple, Des Moines; Col. H.B. Scott, Burlington, Iowa, representing Mr. C. E. Perkins, formerly President of the C.B.&Q. Ry., who is in California at present; Mrs. Leonard and Mrs. Stanchfield, of Creston, Iowa; Col. And Mrs. W. P. Hepburn, Clarinda, Iowa; Mr. D. A. Baum, Omaha; Nebraska and several others. Note: Obituaries of similar length and scope also were published during this week in the competing Chariton newspapers, The Leader and The Democrat. However, this is the most comprehensive of the three. FDM