Who invented Malone Pants?

The Malone Pant derives its name from the original place of manufacture, Malone, NY. The Ballard Woolen Mill, famous for its heavyweight wool garments designed to endure the rigors of Adirondack Winters, constructed most of the clothing used by Adirondack guides and their wealthy patrons such as the Roosevelts, Carnegies, Vanderbilts and Whitneys in the first half of the 20th century. The Mill shut down shortly after the 1980 Winter Olympic in Lake Placid, NY (the mill's final function was the manufacturing of the US Olympic Team uniforms) and was purchased in the late 90's by North Country Community College ( www.nccc.edu ). The College rehabbed the woolen mill and adjacent dress factor into a branch campus of the College. The project was awarded the 2001 Community Renaissance Award for outstanding reuse of a historical community structure in New York.