Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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WILLIAM M. MALOTT, 
 
one of the pioneers of 1875, was born in Clay County, Missouri, in 1830. He is a 
son of William and Christiana (Moor) Malott, natives of Kentucky, and of French 
and German origin respectively. The paternal grandfather of Mr. Malott was a 
soldier in the Revolutionary war, under the great La Fayette. William Malott, 
Sr., moved from Kentucky to Missouri at an early day. In his early life he was a 
mechanic, but later gave his attention to farming. He lived successively in 
Howard, Clay, and Platt counties, Missouri, and in the last-named county he died 
in 1849. He had been born in 1796 in Kentucky. His companion was born in 1808, 
and is living to this day at the old homestead in Platt County, Missouri. They 
reared a family of eleven children. The subject of this sketch is the fourth. He 
received a good common‑school education, and at the age of twenty-seven left 
home to do for himself. Mr. Malott was married in 1857 to Mrs. Lucy Canter, a 
native of Virginia. By her he has four daughters, all living and married: 
Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Hazlock; Jessie, wife of the enterprising M. N. 
Newmark; Mary E., wife of William Carpenter, and Susan, wife of Perry Venable. 
Mr. Malott is a member of the I. O. O. F. at Compton. Politically he is true to 
the Democratic party, being a firm believer in, and an ardent advocate of, that 
party. He has been a true pioneer of Los Angeles County, and to such men as he 
the county has yielded its wild, uncultivated prairies and swamps to be replaced 
by broad fields of alfalfa, and beautiful vineyards and orchards of the choicest 
fruits. Pleasantly located, one mile east of the city of Compton, he is spending 
happily the evening of life with the partner and companion of his youth.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 775
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler