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MALLALIKU. MALLALIEU. 391 He began farming and market-garden- ing in a small way, by purchasing eleven acres of cheap land, for which he paid six hundred dollars. lie improved the land, added thereto from time to time, until his farm now embraces two hundred acres and several houses, and the annual value of the crops is six thousand dollars a year. He is a successful Massachusetts farmer. Mr. Mackintosh has been four times called to serve as selectman of the town ; has represented the 9th Norfolk district in the House of Representatives for three years (1876, '77 and 'Si), and in 1877 was chairman of the committee on agriculture. Mr. Mackintosh was married in Boston, August 23, 186S, to Lizzie H., daughter of John B. and Rachel W. Hall. Of this union are two children : Herbert B. and Wendell 1'. Mackintosh. Mrs. Mackintosh died October 1, 1885. He married for his sec- ond wife, at Newton, October 11, 1S8.S, Mary E., daughter of Edward and Phebe ('.. Wales. MALLALIEU, WlLLARD FRANCIS, son of John and Lydia (Emerson) Mallalieu, was born in Sutton, Worcester county, De- cember 11, 1828. When a year old his parents removed to the neighboring town of Millbury, where they died at an ad- vanced age. After a preparatory course of study at East Greenwich, R. I., and at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, he entered Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., from which he was graduated in the class of l8 57- His first and only contribution to politi- cal life was in his junior year in college, when he stumped the state of Connecticut for " Fremont and Jessie," in the famous campaign of that year. In 1858 he joined the New England conference, Methodist Episcopal church, and was subsequently stationed ( 1858— 'y) at Grafton ; (i86o-'i) Bellingham Street, Chelsea; (1S62-';,) Common Street, Lynn; (1864) Union Church, Charlestown; (1865- '7) Bromfield Street, Boston; (i868-' 7 o) Walnut Street, Chelsea; (187 1) Trinity Church, Worcester; (i87 2-'4) Broadway, Boston; (1875) Walnut Street, Chelsea; ( 1876— '8) Bromfield Street, Boston ; and ( 1S79— 'S 1) Walnut Street, Chelsea. In April, 1882, he was appointed presiding elder of the Boston district, which position he held until elected to the episcopacy. In 1867 he was elected president of Central Tennessee College, Nashville, which he declined ; in 1868 he was a mem- ber of the New England Historic Genealog- ical Society; in 1874 he received the degree of D. D. from East Tennessee Wesleyan University, now Grant Memorial University ; in 1875 he traveled in Europe; he was a delegate to the general confer- ence, Methodist Episcopal church, in 1872, '80 and '84. In the last election he re- ceived the highest number of votes ever cast for a delegate by the members of the conference. At the general conference of 1884, May 15, he was elected to the bish- opric. His discharge of the duties of this exalted position has demonstrated the wis- dom of the church in his selection. He is not only one of the most popular, but one of the most influential, members of the WlLLARD F. MALLALIEU. board of bishops. His Episcopal residence was fixed in 1884 and again in 1888, by his own choice, at New Orleans, La., and the work of his church in the South has found in him a faithful interpreter and a powerful leader. On October 13, 1858, at Sandwich, he married Eliza Frances.'daughter of George and Paulina (Freeman) Atkins. Of this union were two children : Willard Emer- son, born August 8, 1863, and Ellen Brom- field Mallalieu, born September 11, 1865, who died March 17, 1874. On his father's side Bishop Mallalieu came of exiled Huguenot stock, who first