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the American Baptist Historical society and was its president, 1861-79. He was one of the found- ers of the American Tract society and its vice- president and director; honorary president of the American Peace society, and senior vice-president of the Pennsylvania Colonization society. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Dick- inson college in 1842, that of D.D. from the Uni- versity of Vermont and Union college in 1843, and that of LL.D. from the University at Lewis- burg. Pa., in 1857. He was married first, May 1, 1820, to Lydia Shields of Philadelphia, Pa., and their son, Thomas Shields Malcom (1821-1888), Brown, 1839, was a Baptist clergyman. He was married secondly in 1838, to Anne R. Dyer of Bos- ton, Mass. He edited: Baxter's " Saint's Rest "; Thomas a Kempis's "Imitation of Christ"; Robert Hall's " Helps toZion's Travellers "; Hen- ry's "Communicants' Companion "; Law's " Seri- ous Call "; Butler's " Analogy of Religion and Nature "; and " Hymns for the Conference " (1822). He is the author of: Dictionary of the Bi7>Ze(1828); The Nature and the Extent of the Atonement (1829); The Christian Rule of Marriage (1830); Travels in Southeastern Asia (2 vols., 1839); In- dex to Religious Literature {\%^^) . He died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, 1879.

MALCOM, William, inventor, was born in Sul- livan, Madison county, N.Y., Oct. 13, 1823. He received an excellent education and engaged in the manufacture of fire-arms. He devoted his leisure time to the study of optics, and invented a powerful magnifying instrument with which he could see clearly the composition of knots in a board four miles from his experimenting station, and subsequently invented an instrument that did not require adjustment for varying distances. The adjustment of the different lenses used in these instruments was never revealed by Mr. Mal- com and the secret died with him. He designed telescopes for the Lick observatory, California, the Royal observatory, Greenwich, and for use by the United States, English, Russian and Ital- ian governments on their heavy ordnance. He died in Syracuse, N.Y., July 12, 1890.

MALLALIEU, Willard Francis, M.E. bishop, was born in Sutton, Worcester county, Mass., Dec. 11, 1828; son of John and Lydia (Emerson) Mallalieu; grandson of Jonathan and Mallie (Hocart) Mallalieu, and of Willard and Rosina (Marsh) Emerson, and a descendant, through Joshua' and Joshua i, of Francis Mallalieu, a Huguenot, who escaped from France shortly after the massacre of St. Bartholomew, Aug. 24, 1572; and also a descendant, through Simeon and Persis (Davenport) Emerson, of Richard Davenport, Salem, Mass., 1628. He received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Millbury, Mass., be- came a member of the Methodist church in 184Q,

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and was graduated at Wesley an university in 1857. He was married, Oct. 13, 1858, to Eliza Francis Atkins, of Sandwich, Mass. He joined the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in April, 1858, and was pastor at Grafton, Mass., 1858- 59; of the Mt. Bel- lingham church,

Chelsea, 1860-61; of the Common Street church, Lynn, 1862- 63; of the Union church, Charlestown, 1864, and of the Bromfield Street

church, Boston, 1865- 67 and 1876-78. In 1867 he declined the presidency of the Central Tennessee college. He was pas- tor of the Walnut

Street church, Chelsea, Mass., 1860-70, 1875 and 1879-81; of Trinity church, Worcester, 1871; and of the Broadway church, Boston, 1872-74. In 1875 he visited Europe. He was presiding elder of the Boston district, 1882-84; and was elected bishop in the Methodist Episcopal church on May 15, 1884. He was a delegate to the General Confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1872, 1880, 1882 and 1884. In 1868 he became a mem- ber of the New England Historic Genealogical society. He received the degree of D.D. from the East Tennessee Wesleyan univereity in 1874, and that of LL.D. from New Orleans university, 1891. He is the author of: The Why, IMien and How of Revivals (1901), The Office and Work of the Holy Spirit (1901), and contributions to the Methodist Quartei'ly Review and other periodicals. MALLARY, Charles Dutton, educationist, was born in West Poultney, Vt., Jan. 23, 1801; youngest son of Daniel and Martha (Dutton) Mallary, and grandson of Peter and Mary (Mun- son) Mallary. His father removed from Cheshire, Conn., to Poultney in 1794. He was graduated at Middlebury college, Vt., in 1821, and in 1822 re- moved to South Carolina, where he was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1824. He was pastor in Columbia, S.C, 1824-30; Augusta, Ga., 1830- 34, and Milledgeville, Ga., 1834-37, and in 1837 became an agent for the newly chartered Mercer university at Penfield, Ga.,of which he was made a member of the first board of trustees in 1839. He collected in seventy counties of Georgia up- wards of $120,000, which placed the university on a firm basis. He then took up evangelistic and pastoral work in middle and western Georgia, which he continued until 1852, when he retired to a farm near Albany, Ga., in feeble health.