Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 8/5/1952

Claude A. Smale, a packing de-
artment foreman at the Electro
Metallurgical company, a division
of Uhion Carbide
and. Carbon
corporation, ' has
been retired after
completing over
28 years of continuous
service.
He has lived in
this city for the
last 51 years. -^
. A native of
London, England,
Mr. Smale wav ssiAS£
four years old, T \ ^
when his parents settled* in Seaforth,
Ont/in 1890. He was educated at
the Seaforth high school and came
here in 1901 to work as a silver
finisher for the William A. Rogers
company.
In 1906 he became a dispatcher
for the William A. Young Trucking
company, a job he held for 18 years.
He conducted his own trucking com-
' pany, which operated between here
and Buffalo, for several years before
comirig u\ Electromet in 1924.
Mr. Sm'ale was a.member of the
National .Guard during World War
1. He belongs to Electromet's 25-
Year club and he and his wife, Mr*.
Josephine Smale, are members of
the Zion Lutheran church. They
reside in Military road during the
winter and at a cottage near Dunville.
Ont., during the sumer*.
Mr. Smale was honored at two
farewell parties by his associates
beforA retiring.

Family/Spouse: Josephine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Niagara Gazette - 12/30/1939

Dec. 10—William G. Smale, 75, 465
Seventh street, veteran teamster,
dies.

12/11/1939

Heart Attack Fatal to Longtime
Employe of Falls Carting
Company.
William G. Smale, veteran Niagara
Falls teamster, died suddenly yesterday
afternoon of a heart attack
In the home of his daughter. Mrs.
Emil R. Boles, with whom he lived.
He was 75 years old.
Coming to Niagara Falls from
Seaforth, Ont., In 1900. Mr. Smale
obtained employment t l t h the William
Young Carting company as a
teamster and had been employed by
that firm ever since, in late years
serving as a night watchman at the
garage and offices in Eighth street.
Entering the business when trucks
as a means of transportation were
unheard of. he often recalled how
trips to Buffalo and Lockport with
a wagon were long, tedious jour-
neys, occupying an entire day, and
that during the winter months heavy
snows and low temperatures made
the trips even more difficult.
He served many of the important
Niagara Falls industries when their
rise was judt beginning and hauled
much of the heavy machinery
whcih has played so great a part in
establishing this city's industrial
prominence.
An authority on horses, Mr. Smale
was given much of the responsibility
of caring for the more than 100
kept by the local carting firm in
the large barns in Sixth street be-
fore motor trucks began to make
their presence felt.
After the complete motorizing of
Young's equipment, Mr. Smale re-
mained with the firm as a night
watchman and yesterday had re-
turned from work, only a few hours
before hiis death, in apparently
good health.
In spite of the fact that he was
no longer able to care for horses,
hemaintained a keen interest in
them and about a year ago served
as a judge for a horse show held in
Chippawa, Ont. When this city's
first large scale horse show was
staged in Hyde Park stadium last
summer, he spent the entire day at
the scene, talking with owners and
trainers.
Reluctant tyo travel in automo-
biles Mr. Smale experienced a
thrill only a few years ago when he
made one step beyond this mode
of transportation and went up in
an airplane at the municipal air-
port, seeing for the first time how
the city in whci he had lived for
nearly 40 years looked from the air.
Born in Ashwater, Devonshire,
England on December 10, 1865, he
came to Canada to take up residence
in Seaforth, Ont., shortly before the
turn of the century, and lived there
until he came to this city.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs.
Boles, are three sons, Claude A.
Smale, of Buffalo, and William G.
Smale, Jr. and Ralph S. Smale, of
this city. There also are give grand-
children, Miss geralding Smale, Miss
Dorothy Smale, Miss Betty Smale,
robert E. Boles and William A.
Boles, all of this city.
Funeral services will be held at 2
o;clock Wednesday afternoon from
his late home, 465 Seventh street,
with burial in Memorial Park ceme-
tery. The Rebv. Sylvanus S. Davies,
pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Epis-
copal church, will officiate.