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Mallory's Castle: The Ilion: A Grand Entrance
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Saturday, August 6, 2011. The Ilion: A Grand Entrance. This photograph from the Lucas County Historical Society collection is date-stamped Jan. 5, 1955, but the name of the photographer is not given. How many, I wonder, passed through the Ilion’s grand front doors during their 75 years? Probably. Smith H. and Annie Mallory and their daughter and son-in-law, Deming and Jessie Thayer, were lavish entertainers and the house was designed to accommodate a crowd. My guess is that these doors were hung sometime...
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Mallory's Castle: August 2011
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Saturday, August 6, 2011. The Ilion: A Grand Entrance. This photograph from the Lucas County Historical Society collection is date-stamped Jan. 5, 1955, but the name of the photographer is not given. How many, I wonder, passed through the Ilion’s grand front doors during their 75 years? Probably. Smith H. and Annie Mallory and their daughter and son-in-law, Deming and Jessie Thayer, were lavish entertainers and the house was designed to accommodate a crowd. My guess is that these doors were hung sometime...
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Mallory's Castle: Deming: Cape Cod to Colombia
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Thursday, August 4, 2011. Deming: Cape Cod to Colombia. This poor-quality photo, lifted from an 1890s group shot, shows Deming Jarves Thayer and his wife, Jessie (Mallory) Thayer. Deming Jarves Thayer, who by marriage became the fourth member of Chariton’s tightly-knit Mallory family, remains its most enigmatic figure. Harlow had been named after an uncle, Harlow Hooker, married to Betsey Thayer. Harlow's parents were Solomon Alden Thayer, Betsey’s brother, and Abby (Stutson) Thayer. As mig...Abby (Stuts...
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Mallory's Castle: Mallory's Castle: Introduction
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Sunday, July 31, 2011. The date stone once embedded high in the tower of Mallory's Castle, now on the grounds of the Lucas County Historical Society Museum. When I was 9, the old house known as Mallory’s Castle - - named Ilion by its builder - - was torn down to clear the way for a housing development. It was the most elaborate house ever built in Lucas County, constructed by the most elaborate family ever to live here - - but stood for only 75 years. Mallory left no stone unturned to earn a buck. Ra...
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Mallory's Castle: July 2011
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Sunday, July 31, 2011. The date stone once embedded high in the tower of Mallory's Castle, now on the grounds of the Lucas County Historical Society Museum. When I was 9, the old house known as Mallory’s Castle - - named Ilion by its builder - - was torn down to clear the way for a housing development. It was the most elaborate house ever built in Lucas County, constructed by the most elaborate family ever to live here - - but stood for only 75 years. Mallory left no stone unturned to earn a buck. Ra...
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Mallory's Castle: Jessie marries Deming Thayer
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Monday, August 1, 2011. Jessie marries Deming Thayer. Jessie O. Mallory and Deming J. Thayer, a civil engineer and protégé of her father, were married on June 9, 1886, during a grand ceremony at the Ilion. She was 22 at the time and Deming, 33. The most complete account of the marriage was published in The Chariton Democrat, owned at the time by Jessie’s father, on June 10, 1886. The special Pullman cocah which brought the Illinois visitors yesterday noon, started homeward with them at midnight. The brid...
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Mallory's Castle: Jessie: The Early Years, 1863-85
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011. Jessie: The Early Years, 1863-85. Jessie Ogden Mallory, photographed as a young adult, appears serene and lovely, exquisitely dressed with brown hair upswept, looking directly into the camera with large and intelligent eyes framed by spectacles. She looks as you’d expect a privileged, accomplished and widely-traveled young woman to look during the last quarter of the 19th century. They moved into a new but modest story-and-a-half frame house on several lots at the south end of th...