Born: Kentucky, 1822.
Died: Illinois, 1884.
The parents of Mr. Mallory came from Kentucky to Illinois in 1827, and settled in what is now Clear Lake Township, Sangamon County. His mother's brother, John Dawson, came with them. Mr. Mallory became a Christian at Clear Lake in 1844, under the preaching of A. J. Kane.
He began teaching school in 1841. At the same time he began the study of medicine with Dr. John Todd, of Springfield. Later, he pursued his medical studies at Laporte, Ind., and then practiced his profession, for a time, at Beloit, Wisconsin. In 1847 he was in the Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College, and in 1848 located at Fort Madison, Iowa. Near that city he was married to Miss Susan A. Johnston in 1848. They returned to Springfield the next year.
In August, 1852, he began the publication of the Christian Sentinel. From this date, his thought and energy were mainly given to the work of the ministry. In March, 1856, he entered the service of the State Missionary Society, in which he continued until the outbreak of the Civil War. He was commissioned by Governor Yates, in January, 1862, as a recruiting officer. This work resulted in the enlistment and organization of the 114th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which Dr. Mallory became captain of Company C. After one year's service at the front, he resigned by reason of ill health.
Thereafter, his time and energies were given chiefly to the work of the gospel. His ministry was confined to central Illinois. He resided at Howlet, now called Riverton. One of the sermons that he preached with great power was based on these words: "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" It was a sermon not soon forgotten. He was a man of fine courage and cultured conscience, of kindly heart and generous helpfulness. His active and useful life was cut short by typhoid fever and blood poisoning.