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Henri Mali, the great-great-grandfather of Frederick Mali, was born in Amsterdam in 1774 and went to Verviers to join forces with Simonis as managing partner of the company where he remained until his death in 1850. It was Henri Mali, who in 1799 found and arranged for John Cockerill, the inventor of the Spinning Jenny, to come to Hamburg. Henri hired him and brought him to Verviers. This broke the English monopoly on the efficient manufacture of woven cloth. In 1826, Henri sent his son, Henri Williem Theodore Mali, to look into the business situation in the United States. In that same year, he formed the Henry W. T. Mali & Co., Inc., and a few years later he was joined by his younger brother Charles Mali. In 1831, when Belgium became a Kingdom and began to be represented in the United States, Henri W. T. Mali was appointed the first Counsel General, a position that has been held by a member of the Mali family until 1949, when Henry J. declined. Fred Mali, founder of Mali Cues, and the fifth generation of the Mali family to carry on the fine tradition of billiards excellence started in 1826. Since neither Henry W. T. or Charles had sons, their brother Jules Mali, then head of Simonis in Verviers, sent his eldest son, Pierre Mali, to New York in 1878 to carry on the family business. This tradition passed to John Taylor Johnston Mali, Pierres eldest son, and then to Pierres second son, Henry Julian Mali. Henry J.s eldest son, Frederick Johnston Mali is the 5th generation to run Mali and Co., and today he is the President and C.E.O. of the oldest and largest supplier of billiard fabric in the United States. The Henry W.T. Mali &. Co. continues in the great tradition of service as exemplified by great-grandfather John Taylor Johnston, who founded The Metropolitan Museum of Art and great-great-grandmother Lucretia Mott, the renowned Quaker Abolitionist and womens rights advocate. Looking to the future, Mali Billiard Cloth is being used in the Space Shuttle and will be going to the moon in 2008.

Address: 257 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010
Telephone: 1-800-223-6468
Website: http://www.malicloth.com/