JOHN F. KELLY, WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Annette (Carpenter) Womack
of Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA
January 1998
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BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL 
MEMOIRS OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

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RESIDENTS, AND AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL SKETCH 
OF THIRTEEN COUNTIES --ILLUSTRATED--
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JOHN F. KELLY

John F. Kelly, M.  D., is a name that has become familiar throughout this
section of the country, for he has entered the doors of many of its
inhabitants in his professional capacity, and wherever, he has been his
agreeable and pleasant countenance has brought sunshine with it, and his
well-known, thorough knowledge of his profession has secured the confidence 
of all.  

He was born in Smith County, Miss., July 16, 1836, to Archibald and Margaret
(McGill) Kelly, who were born in the Old North State.  The father died in
Caldwell Parish, La., in 1848 at the age of sixty-five years, and the mother
in Winnfield, La., when sixty-seven years of age. The grandparents of Dr.
Kelly came from Scotland, and in 1846 the Kellys settled in Louisiana, taking
up their abode in Caldwell Parish. at which place the Doctor was educated. 
     
He begin the study of medicine in 1857, in the office of Dr. C. C. Meredith 
of that place.

The winter of 1860-61 he spent in the University of Louisiana, but in May of
the latter year he joined Company I, Third Louisiana Infantry, and served
throughout the war, being on detached duty a part of the time.  As assistant
surgeon at the fall of Vicksburg be was left in charge of the sick and 
wounded of his regiment, and there remained until  November, 1863.  After the
war he returned home and entered upon the practice of medicine, a calling to
which he has devoted his attention ever since, with the exception of a short
time, during 1867 he graduated at the New Orleans School of Medicines.

In politics he is a Democrat, and in 1872 was elected to the State Senate 
from the Twenty-fourth Senatorial District, being reelected in 1878.  He made
a faithful, trusty and intelligent legislator, and did all in his power to
prove himself worthy. the responsible position to which he had been elected,
and with the best results.  

He was married in 1865 to Miss Lillie A. Wade, who was born in Tennessee in
1847, and has borne him five children: Maggie, Kate, Daniel W., John L., and
Angus H. 

Dr. Kelly is a member of Eastern Star Lodge No. 151,  of the A. F. & A. M.,
and he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.

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