| H. H. Mahon was born October 7, 1825, in Person County, N. C. His father, Henry Mahon, was a native of Ireland, and came to the State of Virginia at the age of twenty-one years. He there married Martha Epperson, and soon after moved to North Carolina, where he lived until about the year of 1830, at which date he died while moving to this portion of the State. The mother died in Haywood County, in 1850. Our subject is the eighth of nine children born to these parents. He was reared on a farm, and when twenty-five years old was elected constable and later deputy sheriff and sheriff, in which several capacities he served in Haywood County about eighteen years, his official services ending in 1867. In the meantime he read law, and about this time began practicing the same, which occupation he has successfully followed to the present time. December 24, 1850, he married Matilda C. Holden, who has borne him one child, who died in infancy. Mr. Mahon is essentially a self-made man, and acquired much of his education by hard study after he reached maturity. He is a Mason, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. He is a Knight Templar, and politically is a Republican. |
