Biography

08/03/1854 - 01/11/1910

MALOY, James Wilson, a Representative from Carbon County; born, August 3, 1854 in Lansford, Carbon County, Pa.; newspaper printer and editor; staff writer, Mauch Chunk Democrat; editor and proprietor, Lansford Record and Summit Hill Record; elected, council, Lansford; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1884; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1886); president, Pennsylvania State Editorial Association; elected, auditor, Middle Coal Field Poor District; elected, burgess, Lansford (1900-1903); trustee, Miners Hospital; died, January 11, 1910 in Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania; interr ed, Saint Joseph’s Church Cemetery, South Hill, Carbon County, Pennsylvania.