Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 597.

SIDNEY SMITH

     Born in Fulton County, N.Y., in 1809; the son of a Revolutionary captain
and the grand nephew of Ethan Allen of Ticonderoga fame.  He lived through the
earlier years in his native State, and in 1833 found himself in Ohio.  Set out
for Oregon in the spring of 1837, in company with fifteen friends -- Oakley,
Farnham, Wood, Cook, Fletcher, and others -- who made their way overland with
great difficulties and hardships, most of which arose from their ignorance of
the proper route.  They lived on such game as the country afforded, eking out an
often insufficient supply with roots and the flesh of dogs which they bought of
the Indians.  Their horses were stolen by the Sioux, and it was only by the cool
courage of Smith and Oakley that they were recaptured.  Smith was wounded by the
accidental discharge of his own rifle, but would allow no delay or change of
plans on his account, and the cavalcade in time reaches The Dalles, arriving
there on October 2, 1837.  In the succeeding years, while the strife as to the
possession of Oregon waxed warm, Smith then, as afterwards, a resident of the
Willamette Valley, bore his part in favor of our government and nation.  In
1846, he married Miss Miranda Bailey, by whom he had eight children, of whom
five are now living.  They are -- Irene C., born 1847, and now the wife of Dr.
J. F. Calbreath, of Lafayette; Mary Almira, born in 1849 and now married to A.
M. Hurley, of Lafayette; Miranda M., born in 1851, now Mrs. D. L. Kimberlain, of
West Chehalem; Dr. G. H. Smith (born 1861), and John Bayley Smith (born 1868).
Sidney Smith passed most of his life on his farm in West Chehalem, purchased by
him from the estate of Ewing Young.  For ten years, however, he was engaged in
mercantile pursuits at Lafayette (1856-1866, probably).  Died September 18,
1880.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.