Shawnee County KS Archives Biographies.....Kellam, E. P. 1832 - 1896
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Author: James L. King (1905)

E. P. KELLAM.

    Among the prominent business men of Topeka, who stood at the head of
commercial life here for some 40 years, was the late E. P. Kellam, who died very
suddenly on February 5, 1896, of neuralgia of the heart, superinduced by
weakness from a former illness and also from grief felt over the death of his
beloved kinsman, the late T. J. Kellam. The latter, of whom a sketch will be
found in this work, died on February 4, 1896, and E. P. Kellam passed away on
the following day. Both were men of importance and substance and Topeka was
doubly bereaved.

    E. P. Kellam was born at Irasburg, Vermont, February 28, 1832, and was a son
of Sabin and Lydia Kellam, being one of 10 children born to his parents. His
boyhood and early youth were spent in his native environment, where he received
excellent educational advantages; and in young manhood he went to Boston to
enter upon a business career. In 1857 he came to Topeka, and his subsequent life
was spent in this city. With his cousin, the late T. J. Kellam, our subject was
interested in charitable movements of various kinds. He is remembered as a man
of strict integrity and independent views. The services at his funeral were
conducted by Rev. Dean Bodley, of Topeka, who preached the sermon. Rev. Percival
McIntire, of Chicago, was also present.

    Mr. Kellam was married December 31, 1862, to Orpha Beulah, daughter of Pearl
De Wolfe. She still survives and makes her home in one of the handsomest
residences of the city at No. 415 Topeka avenue, where she is spending the
twilight of her life in comfort and ease. Mr. Kellam's son, E. B. Kellam, lives
at Cottonwood Falls, where he is connected with a telephone company. Mr. Kellam
was a Mason and was buried with Masonic honors.


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HISTORY OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS
AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS

EDITED AND COMPILED BY
JAMES L. KING
TOPEKA, KANSAS 

"History is Philosophy Teaching by Examples"

PUBLISHED BY
RICHMOND & ARNOLD,
GEORGE RICHMOND; C. R. ARNOLD.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,
1905.

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