Butte County
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HENRY MALLOY
HENRY MALLOY.—The Diamond Match Company owns one hundred
seventy-three acres of fine timber land in the vicinity of Stirling
City from which they obtain the logs for their saw mill at that place. The
felling of the trees so that the logs will not break and split, and thus be
rendered practically useless for lumber purposes,
requires a large degree of good judgment and skill which can only be acquired
by a long experience in this kind of work.
Henry Malloy, the very efficient
woods-foreman for the Diamond Match Company at Stirling
City, is an expert along this line, and has been woods-foreman for the past
nine years. His position is a very responsible one, as he has a large number of
men under his personal supervision, getting out logs for the mill at Stirling City, in which forty to fifty million feet of
lumber are sawed annually. He has almost been brought up in the woods. His
father, who was all his life a lumberman, taught young Henry, when a lad of
only ten years, how to swing an ax. Henry Malloy was born at Calais, Maine, on
the St. Croix River, in Washington County, September 2, 1867. His
father, Patrick, was a native of Ireland, born in Dublin, and came as a young
man to the state of Maine where he was married to Mary Morrison, whose parents
were among the early settlers of that state. Six sons and five daughters were
the result of this union. All are living. Patrick Malloy died at the age of
seventy-three, and his wife, at the age of seventy-eight.
Henry Malloy as a lad attended public
school in Maine until ten years old, when he began driving team for his father
in the forests of Maine, continuing to work in the woods until he was
seventeen, when he came to Tehama County, Cal., and began working as a swamper for the Sierra Lumber Company at Lyonsville, continuing with them until 1888, when he went
to Humboldt County and began working in the redwoods for the Bay Side Lumber
Company. He remained with them until 1895, when he again entered the employ of
the Sierra Lumber Company at West Branch, Butte County. In 1899 he went to
Sisson, where he worked for the Woods and Sheldon Lumber Company as
woods-foreman, remaining with them until March, 1909, when he came to Stirling City as woods-foreman for the Diamond Match
Company.
Mr. Malloy was married at Chico, in 1895,
to Mrs. Margaret (Cussick) O ’Neill, born in
Livonia, Livingston County, N. Y., a sister of the late Bernard Cussick, a well known lumberman and banker of Chico.
Mr. Malloy has built a fine bungalow at 512 Pine Street, Chico. They
have one son, Henry P., a graduate of the Chico high school, now attending
the University of Santa Clara. By her marriage to Thomas O’Neill she had two
daughters: Mrs. Julia Charles of San Jose, who has a son, Eugene
Charles, a Lieutenant with the United States forces in France; and Sister
Eugenia of the Benedictine Order, a teacher in the Altoona, Wis., high school.
Mr. Malloy is a member of the Eagles’ Lodge, No. 218, at Chico, and
with his wife is a member of the Catholic Church.
Transcribed by Marie Hassard
19 August 2009.
Source:
"History of Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages
1235-1236, Historic
Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Marie Hassard.
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