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Eugene Virgil Smalley was an American journalist and editor.
Background
He was born on July 18, 1841 at Randolph, Portage County, Ohio, United States, but after the death of the father returned with the family to Blackrock and then Fredonia, New York. He was the son of Jared Frost Smalley and his wife, Cordelia Lewis, who moved from New York to settle on the Western Reserve.
Education
At the age of eleven, he started to learn the printer's trade. He had short periods of formal education.
Career
Between 1856 and 1861 he wandered east as far as New York City and west to Louisville and Harrodsburg. Between short periods of formal education, He set type or taught school, and, on the eve of the Civil War, bought, with a friend, two papers in Painesville, which they consolidated and published.
Smalley enlisted in the 7th Ohio Infantry and remained in service until he was wounded at Port Republic. Letters from the field, written to his paper and copied in others, opened a place for him on the Cleveland Herald. In 1863 he was in Washington, District of Columbia, holding a minor clerkship in the treasury department. He made the acquaintance of James A. Garfield, whom he much resembled in appearance and who was responsible for his obtaining the clerkship of the House Committee on Military Affairs.
In 1868 he bought the Mahoning Register, a paper published in Youngstown, Ohio, but after a short time he sold it and became a free-lance journalist. He traveled in Europe in 1869-70, and then began contributing articles to the New York Tribune, becoming a regular member of the staff in 1871. During this period he wrote extensively for the periodicals, Forum, Atlantic Monthly, and Century. For the last of these he made a trip west from Lake Superior and wrote about northwestern states and territories.
Henry Villard, when he was preparing for the formal opening of the Northern Pacific Railroad, engaged Smalley to edit the History of the Northern Pacific Railroad (1883), and thus began a long connection with the advertising department of that road. In 1883 he started The Northwest Illustrated Monthly Magazine. In 1884 Smalley and the magazine moved from New York to St. Paul, Minnesota, where the editor resided until his death. He traveled in the Northwest and wrote profusely of the area he knew so well. In 1889 he published The Great Northwest; a Guide Book and Itinerary.
He was a member and, for many years, president of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce. He was also active in G. A. R. circles and the Sons of the American Revolution.