Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Smalley, M. D., R. B. 1889 - 
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     DR. R. B. SMALLEY, M. D.  Among Portland's representative medical men 
stands Dr. R. B. Smalley, who as physician and surgeon has won for himself a 
high place in the estimation of the people of this community because of his 
professional attainments and his sterling character. Dr. Smalley was born in 
Detroit, Michigan, in 1889, and is a son of Byron DeLacey and Eleanor (Bell) 
Smalley, who were married in Friendship, Michigan. His father, who was engaged 
in the insurance business, came to the Pacific coast in 1890, locating in 
Seattle, Washington, where his death occurred in 1927. His widow is still 
residing in that city.

     Dr. Smalley, who was about a year old when taken from Michigan to 
Seattle, was reared in the latter city, securing his elementary education in 
its public schools. Having determined to devote his life to the healing art, 
he matriculated in the medical school of the University of Oregon, from which 
he was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1918. He served as 
interne in the Good Samaritan Hospital in 1917-18, and then enlisted in the 
United States Navy, in which he served until March, 1919, when he was 
honorably discharged. He then returned to Portland and entered upon the 
practice of his profession, in which he is specializing in surgery and the 
diseases of women. He has shown thorough mastery of these subjects and has 
been more than ordinarily successful in practice.

     Dr. Smalley was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Maupin, who was born 
at Haycreek, Oregon, and was a graduate nurse in the Good Samaritan Hospital 
at Portland when Dr. Smalley met her. They are the parents of two children, 
Nancy, now six years of age, and Robert Rowan, two years old. The Doctor is a 
member of the Portland Academy of Medicine and the Multnomah County Medical 
Society. He is a man of earnest purpose, high ideals and close devotion to his 
life work, and all who know him hold him in high regard for his professional 
success and his excellent personal qualities.

Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 914-915

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