Famous People with Name Mahlon

Mahlon Jesse Higbee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mahlon Jesse Higbee: (August 16, 1901 - April 7, 1968) was a Major League Baseball outfielder who started three games for the New York Giants during the last week of the 1922 season. The 20-year-old rookie was a native of Louisville, Kentucky.

Mahlon Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mahlon Clark: was an American musician who was a member of the Lawrence Welk orchestra from 1962 to 1968. His primary instrument was the clarinet.Born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia; Mahlon started out in vaudeville as a child. Later as a teenager, he became a big band musician playing for the Dean Hudson, Ray McKinley and Will Bradley bands. Relocating to California during World War II, after serving in the armed forces, found employment at Paramount Pictures where he performed music on many movie soundtracks.

Mahlon Bush Hoagland            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mahlon Bush Hoagland: an American biochemist who is best known for the discovery of amino-acid activating enzymes.[1]By the time Hoagland had joined Huntington Laboratories, his colleagues there were well-known for their work in protein synthesis. In the early 1950s Hoagland and his associates were able to show that polypeptide synthesis occurs on ribosomes. They did this by giving a rat injections of radioactive amino acids, waiting for a defined period of time, extracting the liver, and examining sub-cellular fractions for radioactivity. He found that after longer periods of times (hours, days) radioactively labeled proteins were present in all subcellular fractions. However, if they allowed less time to pass

Mahlon Dickerson Manson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mahlon Dickerson Manson: was a druggist, Indiana politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War.He served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1871 to 1873, was state auditor, and the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1885-1886.