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JOHN T. MALLALIEU, superintendent of the Nebraska State Industrial School, was born in Millington, Md., September 23, 1852, and is a son of Thomas and Mary Mallalieu, natives of England. His education was received at the common schools, and his early business training was acquired in the office of his father, who was an extensive wool manufacturer. At twenty years of age he entered Dickinson College, at Carlisle, Pa., from which he graduated in June, 1876, and in the fall of the same year came to Nebraska. At Columbus he was elected principal of the Gibbon Academy, which position he held three years, and was then elected county superintendent, which office he filled in a most satisfactory manner for four years. In 1881 he was admitted to the bar, and in 1883 was elected regent of the University of Nebraska, which responsible office he filled for six years. In May, 1885, he was appointed superintendent of the State Industrial School. This institution at that time found its needs fully supplied by the occupancy of one small building, but now nine large brick buildings are required to carryout the designs for which the institution was established and to accommodate the attending inmates, whose numbers have increased from ninety to two hundred and sixty.

September 11, 1875, Mr. Mallalieu was united in marriage to Miss Alice Gotwald, a native of Indiana, and this felicitous union has been blessed by the birth of three children, viz.— Thomas G., Mary M. and Bessie.