BIO:  HENRY. P. SMALING, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 808-809
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    HENRY. P. SMALING, a well known resident of New Cumberland, Pa., who owns a
  fine farm in Fairview, was born Jan. 9, 1860, in Lancaster county, a son of
  Henry and Annie (Peters) Smaling.

    The Smaling family was one well known in parts of Lancaster county, where
  Jacob Smaling, the grandfather of our subject, was born and where he passed
  his entire life. He conducted a butchering business at Lancaster City for a
  time, and then retired to a farm which he conducted until his death. He
  married a Miss Musselman, whose ancestors, like his own, come from Germany.
  They had seven children: Henry; George, deceased; Frederick, deceased; Jacob
  and Benjamin, of Lancaster City; Margaret, who married (first) a Daveler,
  (second) a Graeff; and Elizabeth, deceased.

    Henry Smaling, father of our subject, was born in Lancaster county and
  married there. When our subject was five years old, he settled on a farm in
  Fairview, Cumberland county, upon which he lived until 1895, when he retired
  to New Cumberland, and died in that town, aged seventy-one years, in 1898,
  his wife having passed away in the

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  previous year, aged seventy-two years. They had three children Elizabeth,
  wife of N. F. Reed, of New Cumberland; Henry P.; and John J., who died at the
  age of thirty-five years.

    Henry P. Smaling was educated in the schools of Fairview, and remained on
  the home farm until 1895, when he came to reside in New Cumberland. In the
  following year he married Miss Anna Fink, of York county, and they have an
  interesting family of four children: Earl, Elizabeth, Park and Miles. In
  politics, Mr. Smaling is identified with the Republican party. He is a
  consistent member of the U. B. Church.