- George Mallon
George Mallon (May 20, 1865 "-" January 13, 1928) was an editor for
The Sun (New York) fromMalone, New York . He was active inNew York literary circles for forty years as both a writer and an editor. George Barry Mallon was the son of M.S. and Martha Elizabeth Barry Mallon. He graduated fromAmherst College in 1887 and studied atFranklin Academy prior to this.Career as a journalist
He came to
New York City in the fall of 1887, working as a reporter for theCommercial Advertiser . In 1888 Mallon joined The Sun, being promoted to assistant city editor in 1895 and city editor in 1903. He continued in this position for a decade, training a number of young newspaper writers. He resigned from The Sun in 1912 and took a job with the Butterick Publishing Company. On the occasion of his leaving the newspaper,The Sun Alumni Association gave a luncheon in his honor at the Hotel Brevoort.Charles S. Whitman , district attorney ofNew York and laterthe state's governor, was among those in attendance.When the
United States enteredWorld War I Mallon started a weekly newspaper inNew Jersey called "War Thrift". He employed it effectively as a tool for raising thrift stamps. During his association withBankers Trust Company he presided over their publication whichpertained to economic and financial subjects. It concentrated particularly on the financial situations ofEngland ,France , andCanada .Mallon was a popular after dinner speaker when he was president of the Dutch Treat Club and as an associate of the Amherst Alumni Association.
Private life
He married Irene Stuyvesant Black in 1895. She was the daughter of William T. Black, a former city surveyor of New York and treasurer of theRepublican Club. Her grandfather was Job Lippincott Black, superintendent of public works in New York in 1848. Irene died in 1923.Mallon's death was attributed to
leucocythemia . He died inBaltimore, Maryland at Howard Kelly Hospital. ["George B. Mallon, FormerEditor, Dies",New York Times , January 14, 1928, pg. 17.]Reference
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