The
World's Advance Thought, edited and published by Mrs. Lucy A. Mallory, Portland, Oregon, was the pioneer mental-healing
publication in the far Northwest. [1]
Mrs. Lucy A. Mallory[2], of Portland, is editor and
publisher of The World’s Advance Thought[3], an able, aptly named literary and reform magazine, for
which she does all the work of desk and composing room herself and does it in
first class style.
V.P. OF VEGETARIAN FEDERAL UNION
1889-1911- MRS. LUCY A. MALLORY (AMERICA).
[1] Chapter 11 - OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS - A
History of the New Thought Movement by Horatio W. Dresser - First published by
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, 1919
[2] Lucy A. Rose Mallory (1846-1920): daughter of Aaron Rose and
Minerva Kelley (or Kellogg); mother died at Lucy’s birth; father remarried
fifteen months later and family emigrated to Oregon from Michigan, 1851,
settling on donation claim that became Roseburg, named after family; married Rufus
Mallory (1831-1914) [4],
prominent attorney and politician, who arrived in Jacksonville from Iowa, 1859,
on June 24, 1860, when 14, in Roseburg, where he had taught school for fifteen
months and she had been his pupil; he was state attorney, 1860, 1862-66, in
state legislature, 1862, U.S. Congress, 1867-69, Speaker of Oregon House, 1872,
U.S. District Attorney for Oregon, 1874-82, twice delegate to Republican
National Convention, 1868, 1888, twice president of Republican state
conventions; she founded, edited and published (for more than thirty years)
“Companion-Papers,” World’s Advance Thought and
Universal Republic, advocating universal equality of the sexes,
vegetarianism, universal language and money, universal peace, cooperation and
love; firm believer in spiritualism, gave psychic readings in rear of Mallory
Hotel, where she also published her magazine; moved to San Jose, California,
following 1917 death of only son, Elmer E. Mallory; died in San Jose in
September (Corning 156; History of the Pacific
Northwest 2: 541-42; Hines 273-74; Gaston, Portland 2: 5-7; Portrait and
Biographical Record of Western Oregon 97-98; Portrait and Biographical Record
of the Willamette 98; Fred Lockley, “In the Early Days,” Oregon Journal 12 Jan.
1915; Bennion, Equal 142-45; Morning Oregonian 8 Apr. 1919, 4 Sept. 1920;
Scott, History of the Oregon Country 4: 45).
[3] The World’s
Advance-Thought and the Universal Republic (1876-1918); advocated a host of
progressive ideas, including spiritualism, anti-vivisection, vegetarianism,
anti-vaccination, universal equality of sexes including equal suffrage,
proportional representation, initiative and referendum, Australian ballot,
language, money, peace, love, cooperation, and league of nations. Two childhood
experiences probably contributed to Rose Mallory’s interest in these causes. First, her stepmother treated her and her older sister, Emily,
with “unbelievable cruelty,” threatening to kill their father if they told;
perhaps in compensation, she often dreamed of her mother, whose presence “was
as real to me as if she had been in the flesh.” Second, her childhood
playmate, Solomon, an Umqua Indian boy, “a mystic and a
philosopher,” taught her that “the animals and trees and flowers had
personalities like people”; “as a child . . . I used to talk to
and with the birds and wild flowers” (Fred Lockley, “In the Early
Days”, Oregon Journal 11 Jan. 1915;
Bennion, Equal 143-45; Mott 3: 82; Morning Oregonian
8 Apr. 1919).
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