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O. H. SMALLEY is the youngest child of Charles and Delina Smalley, both natives of Vermont. Charles Smalley was born in 1815, at Bellows Falls. A man of irreproachable character, upright and honorable in all his dealings, he won the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. His occupation was farming, but the hard work of the farm did not prevent the development of his kind and generous nature. He belonged to the republican party. In 1837, at Grafton, Vt., he was married to Miss Delina Davis, who bore him six children, as follows — Charles, born in Vermont, now in the livery business in Kansas City; Emerline, died in 1885; Mary (Mrs. Zeull), whose husband is a foreman in a cab shop in Springfield, Vt.; David, in a sale stable, Bellows Falls, Vt.; Levi, farming in Kansas, and O. H., the subject of this memoir.

O. H. Smalley was born in Vermont in1851. At the age of twenty-one he gave his father $500 of his earnings and then went to Galva, Ill., there engaging in the livery business, and in this he continued until 1883, when he moved to Elm Creek, Nebr., here engaging in farming and stock-raising. At the present writing, O. H. Smalley owns nine hundred and seventy acres of good land and feeds about one hundred head of stock. Mr. Smalley is a supporter of the democrat platform, also a member of the Masonic order. In 1875, while at Galva, Ill., he was married to Miss Ada Smith, a native of that place, born in 1856. After a course in the Knoxville seminary she became a teacher and taught three years previous to her marriage. To them one child has been born — Jessie, born January 30, 1878.