Sonoma-Placer-Alameda County CA Archives Biographies.....Smalley, William H. 1823 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Smalley, William H. A native of Saratoga county, New York, born August 3, 1823.
When but a mere child his parents moved to Herkimer county, where he grew to
manhood and received his education, completing his course at the Fairfield
Academy. In 1851 he returned to his native county and engaged in farming two
years, when he emigrated to California, via Panama, arriving in San Francisco in
April, 1853. He immediately sought the mines in Placer county, and after mining
a short time, abandoned it and bought a few cows and furnished the miners with
milk for a term of one year. He then proceeded to Alameda county, where he was
engaged in the same business, supplying the citizens of that county with the
lacteal fluid. In 1858 he returned to his native State by water, arriving on
December 20th of the same year. He was engaged in farming in Saratoga county
until 1863, at which time he returned to California, settling in Oakland, where
he resided two years; thence to Contra Costa county, where he engaged in
dairying one year, and in the Fall of 1866 came to this county and settled on
his present estate, located about two miles from Lakeville. Mr. Smalley married,
September 29, 1846, Miss Lydia M. Western, a native of Herkimer county, New
York, born February 21, 1825. Frank, born September 18, 1857, and died February
7, 1863, is the only child they have had born to them.

Additional Comments:
Vallejo Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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