Malone cure chair
U.S. Patent Office

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Children: Richard Malone

Richard E. Malone appears to have been an engineer and a contractor in Saranac Lake. In 1921 he was awarded a patent for a cure chair. In 1927, he bid on a bridge building project on the Malone-Chateaugay road.  He served as an Essex County Deputy Sheriff in 1936, for which he was paid $10.75.


Plattsburgh Sentinel, January 14, 1921

Richard E. Malone, of Saranac Lake, has invented a reclining chair for invalids and an Ogdensburg concern has been incorporated to put the product on the market. Mr. Malone has been making the chairs on a small scale at Saranac Lake and has found a great demand for them. They will now be made at the Hannan factory building in Ogdensburg.


Tupper Lake Herald and Adirondack Mountain Press, May 1, 1930

BIDS RECEIVED FOR THE WAWBEEK-LAKE CLEAR JUNCTION HIGHWAY

The following estimates for the construction of the Wawbeek-Lake Clear Junction Highway, a distance of 27 miles were submitted by the following contractors at the Albany Highway Department: DeGroot Bros, Ft. Edward, N. Y., $44,761.00; Leo A. Malone, Lake Placid, N. Y., $44,762.00, Beacon Cons. Corp., New York, $46,939.00; Richard E. Malone, Saranac Lake, N. Y., $47,332.50; Brien Cons. Co., Whitehall N. Y., $51,394.06; Joseph H. Wills, Rush ford, N. Y., $53,550.00.


Adirondack Record-Elizabethtown Post, February 25, 1932

Richard Malone has returned to his studies at. St. Lawrence University after passing several days here as the guests of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Malone, 35 Park avenue. He took third place in the ski-jump contest at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., on Saturday, February 6.