KELLY BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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KELLY, John Smith - b: 1842 Newton Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 583
residence: Windsor Twp

Judge John Smith Kelly, merchant, was born in Newton County, Missouri, in 1842, 
being the son of Rev. Jeptha M. Kelly, of the M. E. Church, South, who was born in 
Robinson County, Tennessee, and who came to Newton County, Missouri, in 1838, 
and to Windsor in 1873. He married Miss Mary Isabel, also of Tennessee. She died 
in Warsaw, Benton County in 1853. The subject of this sketch received his 
education at the Arcadia High School in Iron County, Missouri. He entered a store 
in Warsaw in 1854, when thirteen years of age, but in 1856 left and worked on a 
farm for a year at five dollars per month. He then remained with his father on a 
farm until the war, when he entered the army in the Okanes Battalion, and was in 
the first battle of the war, at Cole Camp. They then joined Governor Jackson's and 
Price's army, and were in every engagement of the army. Mr. K. was shot through 
the body at the battle of Carthage, and seriously wounded. He was at the 
surrender at Shreveport, Louisiana, after which he returned home, where he 
remained helping his father and working about for very small pay for two years 
or more. In 1869 he came to Windsor and entered into business with Edwin Bass. 
He has now become of the prosperous business men of the city, and is having a 
large and increasing trade. Mr. Bass, his partner, died October 15, 1882. Mr. Kelly 
married Miss Susannah Spencer, October 22, 1868. She was the daughter of Perry 
and Susannah (Wiseman) Spencer, of Boone County, Missouri. The former was born 
and educated in Baltimore, Maryland. They have two children : Spencer J., twelve 
years old, and Mary Eliza, aged ten. In politics he is a Democrat. He belongs to the 
M. E. Church, South. In 1882 he was elected county judge for the first district. He 
has always been connected with the city government in some capacity, and at 
present is its clerk. Since entering into business, his course has been very 
marked, and he has exhibited great business tact and energy in all his 
transactions.

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