Person:David Smalling (1)

This was sent to me by Bob Shell of Kentucky. I do not have the source, just the page, a professional book with pictures, contains a picture of David. David Robert Smalling attended Mlligan College, Grant University, at Athens, and received his law degree from Cumberland University at Lebanon in 1895. He was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He

was in Who's Who in Tennessee in 1911 and a Democrat. He became a practicing Attorney in Dallas, Texas.  After two years he abandoned a lucrative career on a point of ethics in the young and
thriving frontier town, and returned to Tennessee where he bought a small timber plot.  From this beginning grew the Smalling Mills, one of the largest concerns of its kind operating in Western
North Carolina and East Tennessee.  This business employed hundreds of families. He drove one of the first Model T Fords in the area.  He paid for and constructed the one mile of highway running
through his property.  Smalling Road is named in his honor.

Mr. Smalling was a man whose entire life was devouted to the principles of honesty and fair play and as a community builder he was outstanding among the leaders of his time. He married Linda Jane Carver, Feb 7, 1809, who died in 1959. A daughter, Alma Knebel of Greenville, South Carolina passed away in 1990. He is survived by two sons, Woodrow and Lloyd Smalling of Watauga, three daugnters, Bertha Little and Edna Range of Watauga and Mary Woods of Elizabethton. He died in 1952 at the age of 89 and is buried in the family cemetery. Kingsport News, Nov 6,1934, D. R. Smalling, First congressional district of Sullivan County,runnig for congress.

TITL Lester Moore Collection, from the East Tennessee Historical Dept. AUTH Lester Moore PUBL photo-copies of saved newspaper articles. It is full of obituaries and biographies from newspaper articles saved by the late Lester Moore. After his death, discovered by his family and donated to East TN Univ Historical Dept.