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but the greater part of his education was received from his father and from private teachers. He studied law in his father's office and traveled widely in the United States and Europe, becom- ing interested in English history. He was ad- mitted to the Shelby county bar in 1877, and practised in Shelby ville. He was married, Sep. 29, 1883, to Alice, daughter of Daniel John Shaw of Shelbyville. He was elected city clerk in 1885, and was a Democratic representative in the Indiana legislature, 18^6-87. He contributed to magazines and is the author of : When Knight- hood Was in Flower (1898) ; Bears of Blue River (1901); Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall (1902).

MALBONE, Edward Qreene, miniaturist, was born in Newport, R.I., in August, 1777 ; the ille- gitimate son of Col. John Malbone, and grandson of Col. Godfrey and Margaret (Scott) Malbone. His father and grandfather were wealthy resi- dents of Newport, R.I., and were engaged in privateering. In early life he bore his mother's surname, Greene, but later by act of legislature he assumed the name of his father. He devoted himself to miniature and portrait painting in Providence, R.I., 1744-94; Boston, 1796; New York, 1797 ; Philadelphia, 1798-99, and in 1800 accompanied Washington AUston to Charleston, S.C., and the following year went with him to Europe, where his work was highly praised by Benjamin West, who remarked : "A man who can paint sucli pictures need not come to England for instruction.." He returned to Charleston in December, 1801, where he gave his attention chiefly to miniature painting. He also executed orders in other American cities. In 1806 he was obliged to visit the West Indies for his health, but received no permanent relief and soon suc- combed to phthisis. As an American miniature painter Malbone was acknowledged by critics to be unrivalled. Several specimens of his work are in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ; and Tlie Hours, painted on ivory in oil, while he was in London in 1801, was purchased from the heirs and placed in the Providence Athenaeum. John Cheney's engravings, Egeria and Annette, after Malbone's portraits of two of the Middleton ladies of South Carolina, became well known. Mr. Malbone also painted landscapes and figure pieces in oils, and his own portrait, which hangs in the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington. He died in Savannah, Ga., May 7, 1807.

MALBONE, Francis, senator, was born in Newport, R.I., in 1757 ; son of Francis Malbone, a native of Prince Anne county, Va., who came with his brother. Col. Godfrey Malbone, to Rhode Island about 1755 ; and grandson of Adolphus Malbone of the colony of Virginia. Francis, Sr., was a ship master in the employ of his uncle^

Godfrey Malbone, and afterward engaged in mercantile pursuits with his brother, Evan, as E. & F. Malbone and became enterprising and successful merchants in Newport previous to the Revolution, the firm being dissolved in 1784, when Evan died, Francis then became associated with Daniel Mason, in the firm of Malbone & Mason, which was soon dissolved owing to heavy losses. He went to the East Indies in the Mount Hope on her first voyage in 1801, and again in 1805, being in ill health. He returned to Newport, Oct, 12, 1806, and was met by the Newport Artil- lery, which he had reorganized after the war, and was its colonel, 1792-1809. He was a repre- sentative in the general assembly of Rhode Island » and in the 3d and 4th congresses, 1793-97, and in 1809 he was elected to the U.S. senate. He left Newport, Feb. 20, 1809, for Washington, and was admitted to his seat as successor to Benjamin Howland on the assembling of the 11th congress,. May 22, 1809, and served until his sudden death on the steps of the capitol, Washington, D.C., when on his way to public worship, June 4, 1809. MALCOM, Howard, educator, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 19, 1799 ; son of John J. and Deborah (Howard) Malcom, grandson of John Howard, a wealthy Philadelphian, and a descendant of Hugh Roberts of Wales, an emi- nent member of the Society of Friends, who came to Pennsylvania one year after William Penn. He was a student in Dickinson college, 1813-15, and then entered the counting house of Miller & Van Buren, shipping merchants, Philadelphia, where he remained until 1818. He was licensed to preach in May, 1818, and completed his theolog- ical studies in Princeton Theological seminary, 1819. He was ordained pastor of the Baptist church in Hudson, N.Y., April 23, 1820, and re- signed in 1825 to become general secretary of the American Sunday School Union. He wa» pastor of the Federal Street Baptist church, Bos- ton, Mass., 1827-31. He was chosen to visit the principal Baptist foreign missionary stations by the Triennial convention, in Boston, Mass., in 1835, and returned from his duties in 1838. He was president of Georgetown college, Ky., and professor of metaphysics, political econ- omy and mo- ral philosophy there, 1839-49; pastor of the Sansom Street church, Philadelphia, Pa., 1849-51 ; president of the University at Lewisburg, Pa., and professor of metaphysics and moral pl)il- osophy, 1651-57. He was one of the founders of

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