Norfolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Kelsey, Orville R. 1841 - 
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Author: E. O. Jameson (1886)

ORVILLE R. KELSEY, M. D.

   ORVILLE R. KELSEY, son of Robert and Judith (Batchelder) Kelsey, was born
Nov. 17, 1841, in Danville, Vt. He married March 11, 1868, Abbie Augusta
Shattuck, daughter of Samuel Farley and Abigail B. (Mears) Shattuck. Mr. Kelsey
was a Union soldier. He enlisted Aug. 4, 1862, in Battery A, First Artillery,
nth Regiment Vermont Volunteers. He was in thirteen battles, and wounded Sept.
19, 1864, in the battle of Winchester, Va. He received his discharge June 24,
1865. Mr. Kelsey after the close of the war pursued his studies and received
March 6, 1878, the degree of M. D. from the Boston University School of
Medicine. Dr. Kelsey was Medical Examiner for the Norfolk Lodge, No. 635, R. A.,
for the Eureka Council, No. 5, the Mount Nebo Council, No. 707, R. A., and for
Medway Lodge, No. 42, A. O. M. W. He was District Deputy Grand Regent in the
twenty-fourth R. A., District Massachusetts, and member of the Committee on
Returns in the Grand Council, R. A. of Massachusetts. Dr. Kelsey was a member of
the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, and of the Massachusetts
Surgical and Gynecological Society. The children were: George W., born April 24,
1869; Samuel R., born Dec. 4, 1870. He resided in Medway several years, but
removed in January, 1883, to Waterbury, Conn., where he had an extensive practice.


Additional Comments:
THE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT PERSONS,
AND
The Genealogical Records
OF
MANY EARLY AND OTHER FAMILIES
IN
MEDWAY, MASS. 1713-1886.
Illustrated
WITH NUMEROUS STEEL AND WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
BY
E. O. JAMESON,
THE AUTHOR OK "THE COGSWELLS IN AMERICA," "THE HISTORY OF MEDWAY, MASS." ETC.
MILLIS, MASS. 1886.

Copyright, 1886.
E. O. JAMESON, MILLIS, MASS.
All Rights Reserved.

J. A. & R. A. REID, PRINTERS, PROVIDENCE, R. I.


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