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EDWARD S. MALONE
Vol. 3, p. 1244-1245
Book has photo

A great amount of dynamic energy has been brought to bear in the
development of the Oklahoma metropolis and capital city into on of
the important commercial and industrial centers of the West, and the
men who have compassed the results have been known for courage,
ability, initiative power and for faith in the future prestige of the
city. He whose name initiates this paragraph has been actively
identified with the business interests of Oklahoma City since 1893,
when it was but little more than an ambitious frontier town in a
newly organized territory; his fealty and progressiveness have kept
pace with the march of civic advancement, he has become a prominent
and influential representative of important commercial interest, and
is a citizen whose loyalty, sterling character and public spirit have
given him inviolable place in the confidence of high esteem of the
community in which he has maintained his residence for nearly a
quarter of a century and to the civic and material advancement of
which he has contributed his quota.

Mr. Malone was one of the organizers of the Alexander Drug Company,
wholesale dealers in drugs and stationery, and of this important
corporation, the business of which is substantial and far extended,
he is not the president. The company was organized in 1900, with a
capital stock of $50,000, and with the following corps of executive
officers: Robert H. ALEXANDER, president; Edward S. Malone, vice
president; and William J. DUNN, Treasurer. In 1902 Mr. Alexander
retired from the business and since that time the officers of the
corporation have been as here noted: Edward S. Malone, president;
Elmer E. WESTERVELT, vice president; Earl N. AINSWORTH, secretary;
and Harry M. FORD, treasurer. The business of the company for the
first year aggregated $175,000, and the splendid growth of the trade
controlled by this reliable and important commercial house of
Oklahoma City is shown by the statement that the business for the
year 1914 had reached the noteworthy aggregated of $1,250,000, the
capital stock of the corporation having in the mean while been
increased to $500,000. In 1907, the company erected its present
substantial building of four stories and basement and of the best
modern type of mill construction. The building, at 226-232 West First
Street, covers a ground space 100x120 feet in dimensions, and the
building is utilized for the offices and stockrooms of the company,
while the adjacent Gault Building is utilizes for the manufacturing
departments, so that the company's establishment has an aggregate
floor space of 90,000 square feet. In connection with the various
departments of the business employment is given to an average of
about 110 persons, including traveling representatives, and the trade
extends throughout Oklahoma and the western part of the State of
Texas.

Edward S. Malone was born at Peru, La Salle County, Illinois, in the
year 1864, and is a son of John and Julia (AIKEN) Malone. John Malone
was born and reared in Ireland, where he learned the miller's trade
in his youth, and in 1850 he immigrated to the United States, first
settling at Oswego, New York and later removing to Illinois and
engaging in the milling business at Peru, where he became an honored
and influential citizen and representative business man, virtually
his entire active career having been one of close association with
the milling business.

He whose name introduces this review is indebted to the public
schools of his native state for his early educational discipline, and
through long and active association with men and affairs he has
amplified most effectively this preliminary training, with the result
that he is known as a man of strong mental grasp, well fortified
opinions and mature judgment. In the City of Peoria, Illinois, he
found employment in a drug store and there served a practical
apprenticeship in this line, with the result that he became a skilled
pharmacist. Before he has attained to his legal majority Mr. Malone
accompanied his parents on their removal from Illinois to the Town of
Stella, Richardson County, Nebraska, and there he engaged in the
retail drug business in an independent way, this enterprise having
been successfully conducted by him from 1881 until 1893, when he sold
his stock and business and came to the new Territory of Oklahoma. He
established his residence in Oklahoma City and here formed a
partnership with William J. DUNN, the firm of Malone, Dunn & Company
here conducting a retail book and stationery business until the
autumn of 1899, when they sold their business to VOSBURG & Company
and effected the organization of the Alexander Drug Company, of which
adequate mention has been made in the preceding paragraph of this
article. Mr. Malone has identified himself also with various other
industrial enterprises in different parts of Oklahoma and he has long
been looked upon as one of the distinctly representative business men
and progressive citizens of the capital city of the state. In 1902-3
Mr. Malone served as a member of the board of county commissioners of
Oklahoma County, and within the period of his incumbency of this
position it devolved upon the board of commissioners to purchase the
site for the present fine courthouse of the county. In 1908-9 Mr.
Malone gave equally loyal and effective service as a member of the
board of education of Oklahoma City, and assisted in the selection
and purchase of the portion of the site of the present high school
building. He ever at the front in lending his influences and co-
operation in the support of measures and enterprises tending to
advance the civic, commercial and material progress and prosperity of
the community and his loyalty to the state of his adoption is marked
by definite appreciation of its manifold advantages and attractions.

In 1886 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Malone to Miss Flora
HULL, daughter of Darwin Hull, of Stella, Nebraska, and the two
children of this union are Miss Rae, who remains at the parental
home, and Darwin, who is married and who is identified with the
Alexander Drug Company. The attractive family residence of Mr. Malone
is at 400 West Fourteenth Street.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Charmaine Keith, November 12, 1998.