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Meredith Mallory (January 31, 1781 – September 22, 1855) was a U.S. Representative from New York. ==Biography== Born in Watertown, Connecticut on January 31, 1781,〔Margaret Vannerson, (The Family History ), 1971, page 290〕 Mallory attended the common schools and relocated to Yates County, New York, where he worked as a wheelwright and farmed.〔Penn Yan and How it Got That Way, (Mallory's 18 Acre Purchase: 1808 ), retrieved September 19, 2013〕〔Penn Yan and How it Got That Way, (People: Abraham Wagener ), retrieved September 21, 2013〕 During the War of 1812 he served as a First Lieutenant in New York's 42nd Regiment of Militia.〔Geneva (N.Y.) Gazette, (Military Appointments ), March 11, 1814〕〔Hugh Hastings, (Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821 ), 1901, page 1486〕 He was elected Benton, New York's Town Assessor in 1819,〔L.C. Aldrich, (History of Yates County, N.Y. ), 1892〕 and served as Town Supervisor in 1820.〔Stafford Canning Cleveland, Jemima Wilkinson, editor, (History and Directory of Yates County ), 1873, page 365〕 He later moved to Hammondsport, New York, where he owned and operated a mill and held several local offices.〔Harlo Hakes, editor, (Landmarks of Steuben County, New York ), 1896〕〔Rich Freeman, Sue Freeman, (200 Waterfalls in Central & Western New York: A Finders' Guide ), 2002, page 296〕 He served as member of the New York State Assembly in 1835,〔New York State Legislature, (Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York ), Volume 58, Issues 1-2, 1835, page 3〕 and a Justice of the Peace in 1838. In 1837 he was active in organizing residents in the Southern Tier to lobby the New York and Lake Erie Railroad to create the Cohocton Route, which aided in the economic development of New York's central and southwestern counties.〔Canandaigua Repository and Freeman, (New York and Erie Railroad ), March 29, 1837〕 He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1841).〔Francis Preston Blair, Extra Globe, (Members Elect of the Twenty-Sixth Congress ), August 28, 1839, page 269〕 He was not a candidate for reelection and returned to his business ventures in Hammondsport. In the mid-1840s his finances became overextended and his mills and other properties were sold to satisfy his debts.〔Frances Dumas, The Crooked Lake Review, (Along the Outlet of Keuka Lake: Cascade Millsite ), February, 1990〕 He later moved to Batavia, Illinois, which was then a village, where he was a partner with his son in law in a dam, mills, machine shops and farms.〔Chronicling Illinois, (John Van Northwick Papers, 1831-1890 ), retrieved September 19, 2013〕〔Penn Yan and how it Got That Way, (People: Meredith Mallory ), Retrieved September 19, 2013〕 He also served as a member of Batavia Township's Town Council.〔City of Batavia, (Batavia History: Government ), retrieved September 19, 2013〕 Mallory died in Batavia on September 22, 1855.〔Brookhaven Press, (Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties of Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago ), 2001, Volume 1, page 503〕〔Walter M. Everton, (The Genealogical Helper ), Volumes 18-19, 1964, page 184〕 He was buried in West Batavia Cemetery, lot 33, grave 2.〔(Meredith Mallory ) at (Find A Grave ), retrieved September 19, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Meredith Mallory」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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