Lassen-Nevada-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Kelley, John D. 1826 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JOHN D. KELLEY.—He was born in Johnson county, Indiana, February 20, 1826. He
went to Iowa in 1841, where he worked at blacksmithing. In 1846 he returned to
Indiana, and in 1849 he sailed from New York for San Francisco, via Panama,
arriving January 9, 1850. He assisted in laying out Nevada City. Here he was
married October 3, 1853, to Mrs. Mary A. (Thrall) Minckler, born in Fairfield
county, Connecticut, September 17, 1829. That fall he went to Smith's Flat,
Sierra county, bought a hotel and kept it four years. He then worked at
blacksmithing. All this time he was interested in mining, and did some work in
the mines himself. In the spring of 1860 he mined in Virginia City a short time,
then went to Carson City for six months, and then teamed two years in Washoe
valley. In the winter of 1863 he took stock to Honey Lake valley, and located
the ranch now owned by A. Dill. In the spring of 1871 he sold it and removed to
Dixie valley, and located a stock ranch which he sold out about a year later. He
then bought 1,200 acres from French & Litch, twenty miles east of Susanville. It
is chiefly hay and agricultural land, well improved. He is a member of the
Masonic lodge at Susanville, and Odd Fellows at Janesville. In politics, he is a
democrat. His son, Elburn C. Kelley, was born at Smith's Flat, June 30, 1854,
the first white child born at that place. He was drowned in Honey lake July 8, 1864.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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