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GARRICK MALLERY. 
GARRICK MALLERY. 
President of the Society in 1888. 
[Read before the Society, February 16, 1895.] 
Garrick Mallery was born in Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl¬ 
vania, April 25, 1831. His family was of English origin, 
he himself being in direct descent from Peter Mallery, who 
landed at Boston in 1638. Some of his ancestors were mili¬ 
tary officers in the colonial service, and at a later period 
others of them served *in the Revolutionary War. With the 
easy indifference of those days as to the matter of spelling, 
the name was sometimes written Mallery and at other times 
Mallory. The name of Garrick had no association with the 
famous actor of that name, but was a very old family prse- 
nomen, having been at one time spelled Gayreck. 
The father of our late fellow-member was Judge Garrick 
Mallery, who was born April 17, 1784, and graduated at 
Yale College in 1808. He was a member of the legislature 
of Pennsylvania from 1827 to 1830, and was distinguished 
for the zeal with which he promoted the reform of the prison 
discipline of the State. In 1831 he was appointed judge of 
the third judicial district, composed of the counties of Berks, 
Northampton, and Lehigh. He resigned from the bench in 
1836 and removed to Philadelphia, where he practiced in 
his profession as a lawyer for many years. In the latter 
part of his career Judge Mallery held the office of master 
in chancery of the supreme court of Pennsylvania. He 
died in Philadelphia on the 6th of July, 1866. 
Judge Mallery was distinguished as a jurist and was a 
man of broad views and cultivated mind. His high char¬ 
acter and many accomplishments had a marked influence 
on the early training of his son Garrick. The mother of 
the latter, the second wife of the judge, was descended from 
John Harris, the founder of Harrisburg, the capital of Penn¬ 
sylvania, and from William Maclay, the first United States 
