The Mallory Family of Bradford, Pennsylvania

This was an ancient and distinguished family long seated at Studley Royal, in Yorkshire, England. Of this family was Captain Roger Mallory, who founded a line in the Virginia colony about 1660, and some of whose descendants located in Pennsylvania.

(I) Nathaniel Mallory

Nathaniel Mallory, born at Middletown, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, was undoubtedly a descendant of Captain Roger Mallory, of Virginia. After growing to manhood he removed to western Pennsylvania. He married and left a son John, of whom further.

(II) John Mallory

John, son of Nathaniel Mallory, was born in western Pennsylvania, in 1794, died at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, in 1880. He was a farmer of Erie county, Pennsylvania. He was a Whig, and later a Republican. He and his wife were members of the Christian church. He married Anna Irish, born near Cambridge Springs, 1794, died there in 1879.

Children, all born at Cambridge Springs

1. Harriet. Died at McKean, Erie county, Pennsylvania; married David Greenlee; children: Allen, William, Mary Ellen, Andrew, Hiram, Anna, Jane and Evalina; of these, Andrew lives in Colorado, the last three in Erie, Pennsylvania; the others are deceased.
2. Huldah. Died near Cambridge Springs; married Seymour Thorpe, a farmer of that section; children: Anna, deceased; Mary Ellen, living near Cambridge Springs; John, deceased.
3. Truman. Of whom further.
4. William. Died at the old homestead; married Drucilla Stafford; children: Adelaide, Huldah, Hiram, the latter the only survivor.
5. Hiram. Now living at Charlestown, West Virginia; an oil producer; married Lettie Colvin, deceased, of Waterford, Pennsylvania; children: William, living in Charlestown; Mary and Susan, of Edenboro, Pennsylvania.
6. Sarah. Died at Waterford, Pennsylvania; married Daniel Rullins, of Union City, Pennsylvania; no issue.

(III) Truman Mallory

Truman, son of John Mallory, was born in Le Boeuf township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, April 12, 1824. He was well educated in the schools of McClellan Corners, Conneaut Valley, Pennsylvania, and began active life in the lumber business, in which he continued until the oil business attracted him, when he located at Mecca, Ohio. He continued in oil production for many years, and died at Phelps Corners, Pennsylvania, March 17, 1899. He was a Republican in politics, and was actively interested in political affairs, holding many town offices. He was a man of industry and highly respected for his many estimable traits. He married Charlotte Lydia Phelps, born at Phelps Corners, February 15, 1829, died there March 27, 1903, eldest daughter of Theodore Phelps, a wealthy farmer and a noted hunter, who died at Phelps Corners at the age of fifty years; his wife Lydia died there, aged seventy-eight years.

Children of Theodore and Lydia Phelps, all born at Phelps Corners

1. Charlotte Lydia. Of previous mention.
2. Polly. Died at Rice Lake, Pennsylvania; married Alonzo Hillyer, a blacksmith of Rice Lake; children: Webb, Julia, James, Lydia, Eliza and Selden.
3. Cenia. Died at Phelps Corners; married Hiram Cook, a farmer, later an oil producer of Union City, Pennsylvania, also deceased; children: William, of Los Angeles, California; John, of Corry, Pennsylvania; James, of Los Angeles; Maria, deceased.
4. Lucinda. Drowned in French Creek, near Franklin, in 1850, unmarried.
5. William. Died at Phelps Corners, a lumberman, farmer and stock-breeder; married Juliette Fish; children: Frederick, deceased; Emma, living in Waterford, Pennsylvania; Frank, deceased; Lillian, living in Phelps Corners; Ruth, deceased; Willis, living in Phelps Corners.
6. Wesley. Killed in the battle of the Wilderness during the civil war, a private of the Eighty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry; unmarried.
7. Eliza. Living in Edenboro, Pennsylvania; married James McCurry, deceased; son, Vincent, living in Edenboro.

Children of Truman and Charlotte Mallory

1. Lewis Elmore. Of whom further.
2. Frederick Eugene. Born at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, February 5, 1851; now living in Los Angeles, California, an oil producer; married Jennie Rittenhouse, of Spartansburg, Pennsylvania; children: George, deceased; Roy, born 1887, operates a poultry farm at Los Angeles, married and had a son Eugene, born 1907.
3. Emma. Born near Erie, Pennsylvania, February 15, 1853; married (first) Sidney Chase, an oil producer, deceased; no issue; she married (second) Henry Tracy, a farmer, and resides at Phelps Corners; no issue.
4. John Franklin. Born near Erie, 1855; married (first) Susan Shaffer; child, Ernest, born 1880, now a prominent oil producer of Parkersburg, West Virginia, married Creta Hutchinson; married (second) Beatrice; child, John, born 1908.
5. Sidney Truman. Born in Phelps Corners, 1857; now an oil producer of Tulsa, Oklahoma; married Ellen Bushfield, of St. Mary’s, West Virginia; child, Ethel, born 1898.
6. Lydia. Born in Phelps Corners, February 15, 1859; married James H. Williamson, of Waterford, Pennsylvania; now living at St. Mary’s, West Virginia; he is a grocery man and engaged in oil production; children: Mildred, born 1897; Herbert, 1899; Genevieve, 1902; Helen, 1908.

(IV) Lewis Elmore Mallory

Lewis Elmore, son of Truman Mallory, was born at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1849. His early education was obtained in the public schools at Phelps Corners, Washington township, but his school attendance ceased when he was fifteen years of age. He then began work in the oil fields, going first to Bull Run in the oil creek district of Venango county. He continued in that field ten years, finishing up his work at wells on the John Steel farm. In 1863-64 he was at Pleasantville in the same county, going thence to Foster, Venango county, where he was a contractor. At the time of the Angel and Prentice developments, he went to Bully Hill and there drilled the first oil well with five and five-eighths casing and drilled to sand without water; this was the first well of its kind below Oil City.

In 1876 he located in Bradford, but has not confined his operations to that city or section. He is known as one of the largest and most successful operators of the oil and gas country, and has been constantly engaged in the development of oil properties, both as an individual operator and in corporate enterprises. He opened up the Watsonville Oil Pool, near Marshburg, in McKean county; the abundant pool in Chipmunk and Second Sands, on Nicholas Run, Cattaraugus county, New York, and the Turkey Mountain Pool, in Tulsa county, Oklahoma. In the Ohio field he operates through the Ohio Fuel Supply Gas Company, of which he is a director; also is a director and member of the executive committee of the Ohio Fuel & Oil Company, a company now actively operating on Blue Creek, Kanawha county, West Virginia. The vastness of his oil interests is best explained by the fact that he owns entirely or partially over a thousand producing wells, many of them in the Bradford fields. His experience covers all branches of oil and gas production, beginning as a boy of fifteen when he took up life’s battles. He has been nobly seconded in many of his enterprises by his son, Lewis Elbert. His success has been fairly earned and comes not through fortune’s favor, but through energetic, well directed, constant effort and wise management.

He is a Republican in politics, but has never actively entered public life, devoting all his energy to his large business interests. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, the Bradford Merchants, Country and Bradford Gun clubs. In the latter he enjoys his favorite recreation, shooting, and with his son has helped make and maintain the high reputation the club has made in marksmanship against picked clubs of the United States and Canada. He is prominent in the Masonic order, belonging to all bodies of the York and Scottish Rites, holding in the latter the thirty-second degree. His memberships are in Bradford Lodge, No. 334, Free and Accepted Masons; Bradford Council, Royal and Select Masters; Bradford Chapter, No. 260, Royal Arch Masons; Trinity Commandery, No. 58, Knights Templar; Syria Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. He also is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

Mr. Mallory married, January 1, 1873, Emma Jeannette Crawford, born in Emlenton, Venango county, Pennsylvania, May 23, 1853, where she was educated in Emlenton Seminary. She is a member of the Presbyterian church and Bradford Country Club. She is a daughter of Ebenezer Crawford (see Crawford V).

Children of Mr. and Mrs. Mallory

1. Lewis Elbert. Born in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, May 18, 1874; now engaged with his father in oil production in Pennsylvania and New York, maintaining his residence in Bradford; he married Mabel DeHart, born May 17, 1881; children: John Truman, born December 14, 1903, died March 30, 1908; Thomas DeHart, born November 5, 1906; Marjorie Crawford, born May 14, 1910.
2. Nellie Emma. Born in Emlenton, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1875; married, March 3, 1903, Frederick G. Crittenden, born May 23, 1867, at Phelps, New York; he is a graduate M. D., but does not practice, being engaged in oil production; child, Janet Mallory Crittenden, born April 5, 1911, at Buffalo, New York.
3. Maude. Born August 2, 1881, died October 12, 1881.

The Crawford Line

(I) John Crawford

Emma Jeannette (Crawford) Mallory is a descendant of John Crawford, a native of the North of Ireland, of Scotch parentage, who emigrated to America about 1728, settling in Hanover township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. With him came several other members of the family, brothers, no doubt; James, who located in Paxtang township; Robert and Hugh, who settled in the same neighborhood. John Crawford married and had at least three sons: James, John and Richard, of whom further.

(II) James Crawford

James, son of John (1) Crawford, the emigrant, was born in Hanover township, Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, in 1730, but in 1770 was a resident of Northumberland county, living along the west branch of the Susquehanna. He was a member of the convention of July, 1776, which framed the first constitution of the state and served in the revolution. He was commissioned major, October 8, 1776, of Colonel William Cook’s regiment of the Pennsylvania line; resigned October 12, 1777, and afterwards filled the offices of sheriff, commissioner and justice of the peace. He died about 1812-13 and was buried in the old Pine Creek burying ground, near Jersey Shore. Major Crawford married (first) Rosanna, second daughter of John and Jane Allison, of Lancaster county. Her sister Margaret married Colonel Hugh White, of the revolution.

Children

1. John. Served in the revolution, died unmarried.
2. Robert. Married Elizabeth Quigley.
3. Thomas. Removed to Erie county, Pennsylvania.
4. Ann. Married Benjamin Walker.

Major Crawford married (second) Agnes, daughter of Captain McDonald, of Cumberland, who survived him. Child, Elizabeth, died in Erie county, Pennsylvania, unmarried.

(II) John (2) Crawford

John (2), son of John (1) Crawford, was born 1736, died April 8, 1789, and is buried in the old Hanover church-yard. He married and left children: William, married Patty Crain; Ann, married Samuel Finney; Violet; Mattie (Martha); John, of whom further.

(II) Richard Crawford

Richard, the last son of John (1) Crawford of whom there is record, was born 1740, married, 1765, Elizabeth —, born 1745, died June 12, 1810. After the death of his wife he resided with his daughter Ann, in Anthony township, Columbia, now Montour township, Pennsylvania, where he died about 1813, and is buried at Warrior Run graveyard. Children: Paul; James, married Mary Finney; Ann, married Hugh Wilson; Elizabeth, married Rev. John Moody. Another daughter married a brother of Rev. John Moody.

(III) John (3) Crawford

John (3), son of John (2) and grandson of John (1) Crawford, settled in Greene county, going from thence to Butler county, Pennsylvania, in 1797, thence to Venango county, where he died at Emlenton, February 12, 1812. He married Mary Parker and left issue.

(IV) Ebenezer Crawford

Ebenezer, son of John (3) and Mary (Parker) Crawford, was born about 1803, died near Emlenton, Pennsylvania, in 1859, on the farm settled by his father. He married Janet Grant from Crofort, Scotland, died in Bruin, Butler county, Pennsylvania.

Children (not known to be in order of birth)

1. Ebenezer. Of whom further.
2. Alexander. Married Margaret Anderson; children: Ebenezer and Anderson.
3. John. Married Barbara Hicks; children: Meade, Carlisle, Ida, Mary and Estella.
4. Robert. Died unmarried.
5. William. Married Jane Herr; children: Zelia, Jessie, Jane and John.
6. Elihu. Died unmarried.
7. Harvey. Married Martha Ross; children: Lewis, an electrician of Chicago; Lillian, resides in Chicago; Frank, an electrician in the west.
8. Samuel. An oil producer, married Jane Truby, who survives him, a resident of Emlenton; children: Harry, a bank president of Emlenton; Edward and Gertrude.
9. Isabelle. Married Harvey Gibson, a miller; children: Sarah, William, Janet, Zera, Ebenezer and Samuel.
10. Matilda. Died March 7, 1912, at age of ninety-three years; she married Harvey Crawford, deceased, her cousin from Akron, Ohio; children: David, Janet, James, Lucy and Samuel.
11. Emmeline. Now living in Starke, Florida; married George Livingston, deceased; children: Samuel, George and Kate.
12. A daughter. Who died at the old homestead.

(V) Ebenezer (2) Crawford

Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1) and Janet (Grant) Crawford, was born at the homestead near Emlenton, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1821, died there August 26, 1897. He grew to manhood at the home farm and in 1849 joined the gold-seekers in their rush to California. He prospered and later returned to Emlenton. In his latter years he was engaged in banking. He married Elizabeth Wilson, born in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1833, died in Buffalo, New York, June 19, 1906.

Children

1. Clare Minerva. Born in Emlenton, January 5, 1851, died at East Brady, Pennsylvania, April 3, 1885; married Milo C. Treat, born April 3, 1842, in Leon Center, New York, who survives her and married (second) Sarah Hicks; child by first wife: Ellis Milo, born November 27, 1872; by second wife: Milo, born 1896.
2. Emma Jeannette. Of previous mention, wife of Lewis Elmore Mallory (see Mallory IV).
3. James Burton. Born October 5, 1855; now living in Oil City, Pennsylvania, engaged in the oil and gas business as general manager of the National Fuel and Gas Company of New Jersey; married Nellie Comstock; children: Edith, born August 20, 1881; Robert, 1883; Helen, 1887; Ronald, 1890.
4. Lewis. Born August, 1857, died 1861.
5. Mary. Born 1859, died 1859.
6. George W. Born June 4, 1861; now president of the Ohio Fuel Supply Gas Company of Pittsburgh, unmarried.
7. Frederick W. Born December 19, 1864; now president of the Ohio Fuel Oil Company, and resides in Columbus, Ohio; married Elizabeth Dreibellis; children: Catherine, born 1896; Jean, 1900.
8. Carroll E. Born May 29, 1873; now living in Emlenton, where he is engaged in oil and gas production; married Susan Kribbs, born 1872, died February, 1907; children: Elizabeth, born August, 1897; Gertrude, October, 1901; Richard, August, 1905.

These eight children were born in Emlenton, Pennsylvania.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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