Bio of KELLEY, Elwyn Thomas (b.1890), 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 809-810
ELWYN THOMAS KELLEY
Without any special advantages at the outset of his business career Elwyn Thomas
Kelley has steadily advanced and is one of the most substantial business men of
Min­neapolis. Since 1910 he has been active in the conduct of a show card
writing estab­lishment and has achieved substantial success. He was born in this
city on the 1st of July, 1890, a son of John and Rose (Baumez) Kelley. John
Kelley was born in Winter-port, Maine, and came to Minneapolis in 1869. He was
interested in the lumber in­dustry for three years and has been connected with
the firm of Libby & Libbey continuously since that time. He is still active at
the age of seventy-one years. His wife, Rose Baumez, was a daughter of Jacob
Baumez, who came from New York, by ox team, to this state, in 1867. The Baumez
family settled at Norwood, Minnesota, and there the father engaged in the
cooperage business for many years. Subsequently he engaged in farming in Valley
City, North Dakota, but left that place in 1898 and went to Portland, Oregon,
where he resided until his death in 1904.
In the acquirement of his education Elwyn Thomas Kelley attended the common
schools of his native city, finishing the eighth grade. It was then necessary
for him to go to work and he became an apprentice in sign painting with Bernard
Benson of Minneapolis for a time. Later he secured a position with James H.
Griffith in the same line of business, which connection he maintained for a year
and then began show card writing with M. S. Anderson. He was associated with Mr.
Anderson for about two years and during that time took every opportunity offered
him to become thoroughly familiar with every phase of the business. In 1910 he
established a show card writing business on his own account in this city and has
achieved well-merited success in its conduct.
On the 24th of September, 1912, in Minneapolis, Elwyn Thomas Kelley was united
in marriage with Miss Mabel Hoit, a daughter of Thomas Hoit. Mr. Hoit is a
millwright and is still actively associated with the Pillsbury mills of this
city. To Mr. and Mrs. Kelley three children have been born: Burton, seven years
of age; Robert, aged four; and William, aged nine months.
In his political views Mr. Kelley is a republican. Although he has never sought
nor desired public preferment he is ever cognizant of the duties and
responsibilities as well as the privileges of good citizenship and is never too
busy to give his aid in the furtherance of any movement for the development of
the city, county and state. Socially he is a member of the Lions Club of
Minneapolis, which organization is com­posed of leading business and
professional men, and his religious faith is that of the Methodist church.
During the World war he gave generously of his time and money in the furtherance
of the government's interests, and was a member of the Home Guard Drum Corps and
active in all bond and Red Cross drives. Mr. Kelley's hobby is theatricals and
he belongs to the Studio Players of Minneapolis, which organization is of some
prominence among the amateurs. That he has made wise use of his time and
opportunities is evidenced by the success that has come to him, and his friends
in this city are legion.