Birth: Jul. 18, 1808; Vermont
Death: Oct. 2, 1889The following is from "The History of Mitchell & Worth Counties -- 1883"
"In 1855 Harrison Smalley and family settled in the township. He was born in Vermont. The family was large, including two grown sons, George H., and Charles, who preceded the rest of the family by several months.
"George and Theodore were Union soldiers during the Civil war, and now live in. . . ."
"Harrison Smalley was one of the early settlers of Cedar township. He was born in Springfield, Windham county, July 18, 1807. When he was quite young his parents moved to Grafton, Vt., where he was reared. When fourteen he was apprenticed to learn the blacksmith trade, and later, engaged with his brother in that business several years, when he sold his interest and purchased a farm in Plymouth, Windsor county, living there until 1855, when he sold out and removed to Iowa, purchasing land on section 5, township 97, where he built a log house and improved part of the land. In 1860 he exchanged this for land on section 2, in the same township, where he still lives.
"He was married January, 1827, to Eliza Alverson, born in Windsor county, July 15, 1811. They were the parents of nine children, seven of whom are now living —George H., Charles E., Carrie A., Theodore D., John P., Lyman C. and Eliza A."
Source: History of Mitchell and Worth Counties, Iowa, 1883, page 302.