Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-04
GEORGE w SMALLEY.

great capacity and splendid journalistic training havo combined with this knowledge to win for him tho very highest rrputo in his profession.
 It was in lSG1 that MT. Smalley's transatlantic work was begun. When the Franco PruSSian war broke out, he transferred the scene of his activity to tho continent of Europe for time, and his trlegraphic reports of tho fighting and the manruvCrS of that memorable contest sent to Tho Tribune and the London newspaper that joined in the enterprise wrro of the highest order and undoubtedly contributed much toward tho working of a revolution in the methods of tho British war correspond cnt.
 Since tho close of that war MT. Small ley has remained in London almost con- tinuuuSly, leaving only for occasional short trips to the continent, when some event of unusual importance made this desirable ur for shorter and moro sell dom visits to tho United States Among LondomrrS he has grown to be very well known, having become q member of several Uf tho most important clubs, i'll which he k cXcrrlingly popular as a man. All this has somehow led to tho impression here that Mir. Smalley had become d thoroughly AngliCiscd Amrri- can. ono who was rNpatriatc,l in Srnti mCnt as we'll as in residence. But tho fact that Inc has accepted post that cArrir, with it a permanent rysil,uco i'll this country seems to contradict the impr, seiun.
 Mir. Smallry k now G2 years old He k a native of Franklin. Suffolk county, Mass, and his ancestry was uf that sort generally described as good old colony stock" Ho was educated at Yale, whence ho was graduated in 1858, in tho class with Andrew D. White Ran dall Lee Gibson, Benjamin K. Phelps, Isaac H. Bromley, Wayne MacEeagh and others who have since distinguished themselves. He was an ardent aboli- tiouiSt and a friend of Wendell Phillips After leaving college he read law, but | in 1862, when tho civil war came, he | joined tho staff of tho New York Trib- uno as n War correspondent and distin- guishcd himself by some remarkable work, first in South Carolina, and then l ill Virginia. His account of tho battle of Antictam Was n really wonderful performance as to accuracy, fullness and l promptnoSs, and on that occasion his pa | per distanced all others.
 After he had devoted year to duty at the front Mir. Smalley was recalled to New York and intrusted with the delicate and important task of writing the editorial comments upon the latest war news. After tho close of hostilities ho continued upon The Tribune's $ edi- torial staff until sent to London, as stated, ill 1867.
 Mir. Smalloy was married in 1869 to Miss Phobe Garnant of Boston, an adopted daughter of Wendell Phillips. For some years after he went to London his sympathies wero distinctly with the Liberals, and he was at that time per sonally very intimate with Gladstone, though his criticisms of the Grand Old Man during his later public career were often stiuging and sometimes bitter. Iu | person Mir. Smalley is large, being over 6 feet tall and with cOrrespondingly broad shoulders. His complexion is florid, and it has been said that his ap, pearance is that of all English squire. Undoubtedly he will be we'll paid by The Times, for that paper usually gives its star men s, 900 year as a retainer and liberal space compensation besides for all matter used.