MALLARY, Mac M.
Mac M. MALLARY, county superintendent of
schools of Marshall county, Illinois, was born in Greenfield,
Iowa, April 29, 1865, and came with his
parents, E. N. and Mary (HAMILTON) MALLARY, to
Illinois, the family locating in
Peoria
county. His father is a native of New York
and his mother of Ohio.
They now reside in La Prairie township,
Marshall
county. Previous to locating in Iowa,
the father had resided in
Marshall
county, to which place he came at the age of twenty with this
father, Sylvanus K. MALLARY. They located here about 1845,
settling in Whitefield township, near Henry. There Sylvanus K.
MALLARY died at the age of seventy-five years.
After locating in
Marshall
county the father of our subject learned the cabinet maker’s
trade, which he followed a short time and at the age of about
twenty-three years married Mary HAMILTON, who resided near the
village
of Henry.
Soon after their marriage they went to
Iowa, where Mac M. was born. From
Peoria
county they removed to Stark county, where our subject resided
until twenty years old. Until sixteen years of age he attended
the country schools, after which he entered the
Wyoming
high school. Later he was a student in the
Northwestern
Normal school at Geneseo, Illinois,
from which he graduated with the class of 1882. Prior to
entering the last named institution, he taught school for one
years, and also taught while pursuing the course which usually
required four years.
When but sixteen years of age, Mr. MALLARY
decided to make teaching his profession, and after graduating
was for five years a teacher in the Lacon graded schools. In the
fall of 1894 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for the
office of county superintendent of schools and was the only one
of that party elected that year in Marshall county. For more
than two years he has now served as superintendent and it is but
justice to him to say that the schools of the county have been
vastly improved. At present there are about one hundred
twenty-seven teachers employed in the county, over one-half of
whom have had normal training. The wages of teachers in the
county ranges from thirty-three to seventy-five dollars per
month. The grade of teachers ahs been raised and the wages
raised as well. The county has a teachers’ association, in which
every teacher is required to participate, the certificate of
each being effected by attendance at the institute. Mr. MALLARY
is a member of the Central Illinois Teachers’ Association and
State Teachers’ Association, in both of which he takes an active
part. He is also a member of the Schoolmasters’ Club, composed
of superintendents and principals, and has been a contributor to
the School Journal. He keeps up his reading and study in the
classics and is a hard student.
On the 13th of July, 1885, Mr. MALLARY was
united in marriage with Miss Catharine NOEL, of Lacon, a native
of Ogle county, Illinois, and
who received her education at
Mt. Morris, this State. Two children have
come to bless their union – Ernest and Mae. Both himself and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he
is vestryman. He was made a Mason at
Lawn Ridge, Illinois, but has since transferred his
membership to the Lacon lodge. He has filled all the chairs, and
served as master of the lodge for three years. He has also
served as a delegate to the grand lodge of the state.
Extracted May 2011 by Norma Hass from
The Biographical Record of Bureau, Marshall and Putnam Counties, Illinois, 1896.
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