Malvern was reared on a farm until 23 years of age. Not unlike his father and elder brothers, he liked to fish, hunt, skate, dance and all other country sports. He was educated in the public and private schools of Fluvanna County, Va. While quite a boy he heard of the Wild and Woolly West and the adventures of his older brothers, and the exciting experiences that almost all other boys of the neighborhood who had gone West ( and nearly all boys then went West ) were having, and he raved to go too, but the pleadings and tears of a loving mother melted his heart and he stayed at home. However, he did go to Alabama in the fall of 1889 and was connected with the Glass Iron & Steel Co. at Coalburg, but on account of health and mother's desire returned home the next spring.

He then went to Roanoke and Radford, VA., and ran a real estate agency and other businesses, 1890-1901, during which time he studied law at Richmond College, now the University of Richmond ; then hung out his shingle in the southwest cities, moving in 1901 to Richmond where his law practice extended to the other cities mentioned above for over 30 years, during which time he was active in buying and selling real estate and in building. In 1925 he operated in Florida; also built several very fine houses in Tampa, FL. He retired to his country estate "Brightly" at Goochland Court House, VA.

He was a member of the Virginia State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Sons of American Revolution, and the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia.

He, like his forebears, has always stood for the fundamental principles of civilization and for what he thought was right and best for the uplift of mankind.

On Oct. 5, 1892, he married Daisy Van Lew ( origin of Daisy is Teutonic and means modesty), b. Dec. 13, 1875, daughter of John Newton Van Lew and wife Augustas Van Lew (her maiden name). She is a granddaughter of John Van Lew of Richmond. Her great-grandfather was Hilary Baker, one time mayor of Philadelphia, and a prominent politician of Pennsylvania. Her grandfather, John Van Lew, established the first hardware business in Richmond at 17th & Main Street in 1802.

It is said that good things are hard to get, and it takes a long time, hard work, and money to get them. If this is true, the "Omohundro Genealogy Record" should be a good book, for it took him a long time, 45 years (1905 to 1950), to write it.