Samuel Mallory, son of Mallory and Sarah Eldridge, was born at Sharon, Connecticut, April 18, 1798; lived a moving life in Broome, Cortland, Tompkins and Yates counties, as farmer, wool-carder, chair-maker, innkeeper. He married, first, Nancy Hooper. July 28, 1821, at Homer; she was born March 19, 1797; died January 17, 1827. He married, second, in Tompkins county. May 2, 1829, Jane Frances, daughter of Amos Hart and Sarah Eldridge—the latter his mother’s cousin, perhaps.
In 1844 he came to Elkhorn, bought a farm, and for four years kept the hotel at Walworth and Broad streets. In 1846-1847 and in 1855-1856 he was county treasurer, and was once treasurer of the Agricultural Society.
He retired from his farm, within the village, and moved a few rods eastward about 1877. He died April 2. 1897—sixteen days before the end of his ninety-ninth year. His daughters, all of the second marriage, were Nancy Jane ( Mrs. Henry Bradley), Ruth Ann (Mrs. Stansbury Ogden), Anstis Almira (Mrs. William Augustus Barlow), and Betsey Frances (Mrs. Robert Harkness). Of these the first only is living.
From: Beckwith, A.C. (1912). History of Walworth County Wisconsin