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HENRY P. SMALING, a well known resident of New Cumberland, Pa., who owns a fine farm in Fairview, was born Jan. 9, 1860, in Lancaster county, a son of Henry and Annie (Peters) Smaling.

The Smaling family was one well known in parts of Lancaster county, where Jacob Smaling, the grandfather of our subject, was born and where he passed his entire life. He conducted a butchering business at Lancaster City for a time, and then retired to a farm which he conducted until his death. He married a Miss Musselman, whose ancestors, like his own, come from Germany. They had seven children: Henry; George, deceased; Frederick, deceased; Jacob and Benjamin, of Lancaster City; Margaret, who married (first) a Daveler, (second) a Graeff; and Elizabeth, deceased.

Henry Smaling, father of our subject, was born in Lancaster county and married there. When our subject was five years old, he settled on a farm in Fairview, Cumberland county, upon which he lived until 1895, when he retired to New Cumberland, and died in that town, aged seventy-one years, in 1898, his wife having passed away in the previous year, aged seventy-two years. They had three children: Elizabeth, wife of N. F. Reed, of New Cumberland; Henry P.; and John J., who died at the age of thirty-five years.

Henry P. Smaling was educated in the schools of Fairview, and remained on the home farm until 1895, when he came to reside in New Cumberland. In the following year he married Miss Anna Fink, of York county, and they have an interesting family of four children: Earl, Elizabeth, Park and Miles. In politics, Mr. Smaling is identified with the Republican party. He is a consistent member of the U. B. Church.