Bio of JELLEY, Judge Charles Samuel (b.1849 d.1922), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 250-253
JUDGE CHARLES SAMUEL JELLEY
The year 1886 witnessed the advent of Judge Charles Samuel Jelley into
Minneapolis and from that time forward he was closely associated with
maintain­ing the highest legal standards of city and state, both in the
discharge of officia1 duties to which he was called and in the private practice
of law. He ranked with the leading representatives of the profession and his
name is associated with many notable cases, while for eight years he rendered
valuable service to the public as district court judge. A native of Rising Sun,
Indiana, Judge Jelley was born on the 16th of May, 1849, his parents being Hugh
E. and Eloise (Sink) Jelley. The former was a son of Major Samuel Montgomery
Jelley, who was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1788, and who served as a
member of the constitutional conven­tion of Indiana that led to the organization
of that territory as a state in 1816.
Charles Samuel Jelley pursued his preparatory studies in the Hopkins grammar
school at New Haven, Connecticut, and under a private tutor and in September,
1868, he became a sophomore in Yale University. For a time previous to this he
had been a student in Asbury University and at Yale he made a creditable record,
becoming a member of the Phi Kappa Psi, also of the Kappa Sigma Epsilon, the
Delta Beta Xi, the Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Spade and Grave, which were the
leading fraternities and societies of Yale. He was also a graduate member of the
Wolf's Head. He completed his course at Yale with the class of 1871, and after
his graduation he entered at once upon the study of law in the office of the
Hon. R. E. Doane in Wilmington, Ohio. Passing the required examination, he was
admitted to the bar on the 16th of May, 1872, and at once formed a partnership
with Levi Mills, state's attorney of Clinton county, Ohio, under the firm name
of Mills & Jelley. In this relation he entered upon active practice and was
making steady progress in his profession when on account of failing health he
was obliged to retire from the firm. After a rest of some months he located in
Aurora, Indiana, and was there called to the position of city attorney, in which
official capacity he served for seven years. He was connected with many
important trials, covering both civil and criminal cases, in the circuit and
supreme courts of the state and won recognition as a most prominent and able
representative of the Indiana bar.
In 1886 Judge Jelley removed to Minneapolis, where he successfully practiced for
many years. When the state legislature created the office of attorney for the
county commissioner he was appointed the first incumbent of that position. He
was also appointed the first assistant county attorney and was engaged in the
prosecution of criminal cases for three years. He took active part in the work
of both district and supreme courts in the celebrated municipal corruption cases
against the mayor, the chief of police and other city officials, in which the
corrupt gang of Minneapolis was broken up and a number of the grafters and
boodlers were sent to the penitentiary. Judge Jelley was later selected as
special counsel to the attorney general of Minnesota and was assigned
particularly to the trial of cases where persons were charged with trespassing
upon the laws regarding the cutting of timber from state lands. He did trial
work in this and other con­nections in various parts of the state and again
added to his fame by the particularly capable and expert manner in which he
handled the litigation entrusted to his care. In December, 1911, he was
appointed judge of the Hennepin county district bench by Governor Eberhart. and
in November, 1912, was elected judge of the district court for a term of eight
years, beginning on the 1st of January, 1913. His record, as a judge was in
harmony with his record as a man and a lawyer, being distinguished by the utmost
fidelity to duty and a masterful grasp of all of the problems presented for
solution.
In the early years of his professional career Judge Jelley established a home of
his own by his marriage, on the llth of November, 1876, in Wilmington, Ohio, to
Miss Elizabeth Hughes, a daughter of Judge Jesse and Elizabeth (Murdock) Hughes.
They became the parents of two children, but both died soon after birth, and
Judge Jelley is now survived only by his widow. He was for many years an
acknowledged leader in the ranks of the republican party in Minnesota and was
frequently heard in the campaigns in the discussion of some vital political
question. He spoke in behalf of republican principles throughout Minnesota in
every state and national campaign for many years and in 1904 he was sent to the
republican national committee to make speeches in various sections of the
country. He was an orator of pronounced ability and was particularly well known
by reason of his public addresses before clubs on Memorial day, at schools and
at college commence­ments. His lecture on Lincoln has been spoken of as one of
the finest addresses on the martyred president that has been heard in the
country. While an eminent lawyer, Judge Jelley's interests were by no means
confined to his profession. He was a man of broad and scholarly attainments and
he added largely to his knowl­edge by travel abroad from the 24th of June to the
1st of September, 1903. He never ceased to feel the deepest interest in his Alma
Mater and having graduated from Yale in 1871, afterward attended the decennial,
vicennial and quarter-cen­tenary reunions of his class, also the thirty-fifth
and fortieth reunions, as well as the Yale bicentennial. He was again present at
the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation of his class and he was always a most
welcome figure at those gatherings. He held membership in the Minikahda Club of
Minneapolis, also in the Civic & Commerce Association and was always
appreciative of the social amenities of life. Death called him February 25,
1922, when he was approaching the seventy-third milestone on life's journey. He
had passed beyond the Psalmist's allotted three­score years and ten and his
entire career was fraught with honorable purposes and manly action, his life
being of great benefit and worth to his fellowmen.