Rev. Sylvester Malone (8 May 1821 – 29 December 1899) was an Irish-born

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Life

Malone was born in

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,Malone, Sylvester. ''Memorial of the Golden Jubilee of the Reverend Sylvester Malone'', J.J. Little & Co., New York, 1895
/ref> Ireland on 8 May 1821, the son of Laurence and Marcella Malone. His father was a civil engineer and surveyor. Receiving a classical education, in 1838 he was recruited to go to America by the Rev. Andrew J. Byrne, then pastor of St. James' Church in New York. In the spring of 1839, Byrne and Malone left from

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for Liverpool where on 10 April they sailed to Philadelphia, arriving on 12 May 1839. After calling on Bishop

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they made their way to New York, where Bishop Hughes advised him to enter St. Joseph's Seminary in LaFargeville, Jefferson County, New York. The following year the seminary moved to Rose Hill in

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, where Malone continued his studies. As a seminarian, on 10 March 1844 he participated in the ceremonies when Bishop Hughes consecrated Byrne as first bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas and

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coadjutor bishop of New York. Fr. Malone was ordained by Bishop McCloskey on 15 August 1844. Shortly afterward, Malone was visiting Father Joseph P. Burke, pastor of St. Peter's Church in Poughkeepsie, who asked him to attend a small mission a few miles away. Malone said his first Mass in the village of

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, an up-river mill town. Bishop Hughes soon sent Father Malone to

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. He befriended the Irish born Architect

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and together they were responsible for a number of

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. In 1861 he founded the Irish-American fraternal organization '' The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in Brooklyn''. A man noted for his tolerance he was friendly with clerics from other Christian churches and local rabbis. Politically he was a Republican Abolitionist, and supported Lincoln, he was also a supporter of the

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in Ireland, and for

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for Ireland. He died on 29 December 1899. His nephews

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and Sylvester Malone became lawyers, as did his niece Marcella Malone. Their sister, Maud Malone, was a suffragette and labor leader in New York City."Praise for Dr. Malone"
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