Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Kelly, William J. 1854 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

 William J. Kelly, a well known and prosperous farmer of Olathe township, has 
been a resident of Johnson county since he was five years old. He was born in 
Boone county, Illinois, in 1854, and is a son of Alexander and Jane (Robinson) 
Kelly, natives of County Armah, Ireland. Both parents came to America when 
young and settled in Boone county, Illinois, where they were married. They 
were the parents of thirteen children, six of whom were born in Illinois, and 
seven in Johnson county, Kansas. The Kelly family came to Kansas in 1859 and 
the father, Alexander Kelly, worked at his trade, that of a stone mason, in 
Olathe for a time and, in i860, moved onto a rented farm. A short time 
afterward he and his brother, William, bought a claim of 160 acres where his 
daughter, Mrs. Belle Shields, now resides. Alexander Kelly was one of the 
prominent pioneers of Johnson county and was always interested in the 
advancement and development of his adopted State. He was public-spirited and 
always took a prominent part in any movement for the upbuilding of Johnson 
county. He was one of the organizers and a charter member of the Grange and 
did a great deal to promote the development of that organization. He died 
December 31, 1903. William. J. Kelly, whose name introduces this review, was 
reared and educated in Johnson county and has followed farming all his life 
and is one of the successful farmers and stock raisers of the county. Mr. 
Kelly was married in 1891 to Miss Hattie Millikan, a daughter of Branson 
Millikan, a native of Indiana and a pioneer of Johnson county. Mr. and Mrs. 
Kelly have two children, Edith, born January 11, 1892, a student in the Kansas 
State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, and Mildred, born October 24, 1896. 
Mr. Kelly is a member of Lone Elm Grange and was initiated in 1883, and is a 
Republican, which was the political creed of his father.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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