. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... almost the com-mencement of his life. He wa- given sucheducation as tin. subscription schools of hisday afforded, and upon reaching manhoodmarried Mi-- Margaret Shobe. To thisunion were horn four children, a- follow--. -a. horn in 1S40. who is unmarriedand lives with her brother in Noble county; 1. subject; Jacob, unmarried, who re-side- in Noble county and is engaged infarming and stuck raising; one that died ininfancy. David Smalley- father moved hisfamily from
. Progressive men and women of Kosciusko County, Indiana : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... almost the com-mencement of his life. He wa- given sucheducation as tin. subscription schools of hisday afforded, and upon reaching manhoodmarried Mi-- Margaret Shobe. To thisunion were horn four children, a- follow--. -a. horn in 1S40. who is unmarriedand lives with her brother in Noble county; 1. subject; Jacob, unmarried, who re-side- in Noble county and is engaged infarming and stuck raising; one that died ininfancy. David Smalley- father moved hisfamily from Fayette county. Ohio, to Noblecounty. Indiana, in 1836, and there they en-tered a large tract of wild land, all coveredwith heavy timber. Later the father gaveeach of hi- children eighty acre- if thisfarm, and they settled on the same and be-gan to clear away the dense brush and tim-ber. It i- claimed that at that time thereliviiii, in what is nowNoble county. At any rate thi- -how- how new the countrj nd with what td t contend. The mills were - ?•] mile- away and the pplies e without. A little - if I >a\ id caught the. JOSEPH SMALLEY FAMILY GROUP OF BIOGRAPHY 32; gold fever and joined a troop of men andcrossed the plains to California, llis experi-ences for many years were the talk of hisfamily and friends and would themselvesmake an interesting volume. David livedand died in Noble county, and was one ofits foremost citizens and old settlers. Hislife was tilled with exciting events connectedwith the early times. David grew to man-hood in Noble county, and received his ed-ucation at the pioneer schools, attending theold log house, with its slab seats and clap-hoard roof, its stone chimney and its pun-cheon floor and greased windows. His son,the subject of this memoir, was given betteropportunities, as he came at a later day whenthe pioneer days were drawing i a was reared on the farm and upon at-taining manhood met and married MissMary Bybee, November
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