The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-08-25
E. J. SMALLEY.


E. j. Smalley of this city died on Sun
day night last at the advanced age OF 81
He was a man of wonderful vigor, though
at times during the last decade he had
brief periods OF illness which were severe
enough to canse alarm for their possible
outcome. He had great powers of recup-
GRAFTON and recovered quickly and COM
| pletely from these attacks.
MIR. Smalley came Of New England
stock. His father having been native
I OF Connecticut though he moved with
bis fathers family, in early youth, to
Vermont his mo- her coming from
the FrOs''s OF Massachusetts. His pa
ternal father was with Stark at Bennlng-
ton, and his father was minute man III
Scott's army on the Canadian border in
the war of 1925.
The pioneering impulse that character
lzed early New EngIanders, soon carried
the family into the still farther west and
new farm was opened in Monroe coun
~ NOW Aoih s AZ ehC PiCoChb SSh
fury. Here his father married Betsy
Frost and at Riga in that county on July
9th, 1917, the subject of this sketch was
born.
In 1896 the migratory impulse, melted
by stories OF the fertility of the western
reserve OF Ohio, lured the family again
tom dc he
bought near what is now the village of
Randolph. Mr.. Snal.ey alternated farm
work with teaching in the winter, and the
latter vocation led him back to york
sGate" where he became enamored of
Fanny Prick, one of his pupils, whom he
married August Sth, 1910.
For few years he was engaged In the
foundry business at Willlamsville, New
York, but in lS47 he went to Sheboygan
and entered upon the same vocation
there. frye of the ten following years
he spent in farming and in 1857 moved to
Manitowoc and established the foundry
business out of which has grown, through
NiClb6iOuocS DIdNcly ilict, tuhc vi
the Snalley Manufacturing Company.
This corporation was formed In 1881,
with Mr.. Smalley as president, G. c.
Smalley vice. president ard superintend
ent and G. F. Smalley secretary and
treasurer, positions Leld by each sin ce,
until within the past few days
fnha ep,f &c 1909 Cd
in 1887 he married Mrs. Ellen Harnit of
Ludlow, Ill.,, who survives him. Of the
children of his first marriage there sur
we, p. j. Smalley of st. Paul, MINI,
Herschel d., Clarence G. and Charles F.
Smalley Of this city, and Edmund IL.
Smalley of Caledonia, MINI.
Mr.. Smalley's leading characteristics
on the physical side we're tremendous
energy, tireless activity and a marvel
GUS endurance. To these he united
sturdy integrity. strenuous will, con-
scientIousness IN all the relations OF life,
while he concealed under an undemon-
strative exterior a,d brusque manner
a sensitive heart that felt kindly touch
or an unfeeling blow none the less keenly
that it gave no sign, and, withal. gener-
GUS disposition that avoided any show of
ostentatlon. For the conventIonaIities
of social life he had no taste, and for it's
shams only contempt that never wore
disguise. He early associated himself
with the Christian Church, and remained
In touch with 1t during his life, and tenn
perate habits helped his strong constitu-
ton to carry him healthfully through so
of the 81 completed years of his life.