Mendocino County Biographies

James J. Smalley 

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

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	Was born in Duchess county, New York, June 23, 1830, and 
resided at his birthplace till he was twenty-two years of age, and was educated 
in the common schools. In March, 1852, he sailed from New York for California 
via Cape Horn. He proceeded to the mines at once on the Yuba Bar, and remained 
but a short time when he went to Sonoma county and located seven miles west of 
Petaluma, and began farming. He remained there two years, when he went to Santa 
Rosa and began the livery stable business with Julio Carrillo. In 1856 he 
settled in Anderson Valley and began farming. He has subsequently spent two or 
three years in Oregon and Washington Territory. He is at present engaged in 
hotel-keeping at Pine Grove, but still owns his place in Anderson Valley, 
consisting of three hundred and twenty acres. He was married in 1856 to Miss 
Mary Embrocia, who died leaving two children, Mary Agnes and Isabella. He 
married, secondly, Miss Elizabeth Rovie. They have two children, Elnora and 
Abraham.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 555