Randolph-Jackson County IL Archives Biographies.....Kelly, Nicholas W. 1845 - 
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Author: Biographical Publishing Co. (1894)

NICHOLAS W. KELLY. On section 8, township 8, range 5, Randolph County, lies a
pleasant, well improved farm, which is the property of our subject. He is a
native of this county, and was born on the 8th of February, 1845, to Thomas and
Elizabeth (Anderson) Kelly, natives of County Down, Ireland, and of Scotch
origin. The parents emigrated to the United States about the year 1842, and
after residing about seven years in Haverstraw, N. Y. (where the father worked
as a brick molder, and later as engineer in a chemical factory), came to
Illinois. With the exception of four years spent in Jackson County and one year
in Washington County, Kan., they have been residents of this county since coming
west.

  Nicholas W. Kelly served eight months during the late war as a member of
Company F, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Illinois Infantry, under General Thomas.
He was discharged at Nashville, Tenn., September 21, 1865, and was mustered out
at Springfield, Ill., nine days later. He was married April 24, 1866, to Miss
Alsa C., daughter of Charles R. and Rhoda (Adams) Haskin, the former a native of
New York, and the latter born in Kentucky. Mrs. Kelly was the eldest of seven
children in her parents' family, and was born October 22, 1847, in Jackson
County, Ill. She became the mother of ten children, and departed this life
November 15, 1889. Only five of the family are living at the present time:
Luella, Clara, Thomas A., Benjamin C. and Maida J. Mrs. Kelly during her
lifetime was an active member of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, in which body
our subject is an Elder. In his political relations Mr. Kelly is a Republican,
and socially is connected with Rock wood Post No. 734, G. A. R.


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Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Randolph, Jackson, Perry and Monroe
Counties, Illinois
Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the
Counties
Together with Biographies and Portraits of All the Presidents of the United
States and the Governors of the State of Illinois

Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co.
1894


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