Mary H. Smallman, 90, formerly of Hermon, NY, died peacefully at Hamilton Continuing Care Center on October 26, 2009.
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Mary was well known in Northern New York for her decades of work to preserve the history of the region and its families. She was the Hammond Town Historian, St. Lawrence County Historian and into her late 80s performed genealogical research. She was a founder of the St. Lawrence County Historical Assoc., and a member of the Nihanawate Chapter of the DAR, the Board of Directors of the North Country Library System, Board of Trustees of Paul Smith’s College and the 1976 New York State Bi-Centennial Committee. In 1999, she was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the New York State Assembly.
She graduated from Bryant College (R.I.) and Empire State College, and held an Honorary Degree from Paul Smith’s College. Mary was an accomplished public speaker, writer of dozens of newspaper articles and the author of several books…
Read the full obituary in the October 27, 2009 edition of the Watertown Daily News.
She was town historian of Hermon not Hammond.