Mr. and Mrs. J.P. (KELLEY) KELLY, Bio, Granite Co., MT

Indexed and contributed for use in USGenWeb Project by:
Wendy Garner <scooby@marsweb.com>

USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced
in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or
persons.  Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,
must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal
representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb
archivist with proof of this consent.  Files may be printed or copied
for personal use only.

 © 1998 by Wendy Garner. This file may be freely copied for non-
profit purposes. All other rights reserved.

	Mr. and Mrs. J.P. (KELLEY) KELLY
Born:
Place:
Died:
Place:
 
Occupation:  Mr. and Mrs. Kelly owned and operated the Kelly 
Saloon at Garnet, Montana from 1898 to the late 1930's.  

Married:  Yes.
Children: None.

On October 21, 1898 J.P. Kelly purchased the "Bob Moore Saloon" 
from Robert Moore for $1500.00.    The Saloon still remains as one 
of the last buildings in Garnet.  The Kelly Saloon was a two story 
structure with a false front (20 feet by 30 feet) built sometime 
prior to 1898.   It offered male oriented entertainment.  The 
saloon was one big room with a stairway leading to Kelly's living 
quarters.  The bar was on the left hand side of the building and 
may have been carved walnut and may have had a brass rail.  A 
large heater stood near the rear of the saloon, and table and 
chairs from card players were in the center area and to the right. 
 An outside stairway also provided access to the upstairs.  

In the big room facing the south was a kitchen range, cupboards, 
tables and chairs, a couch and several rocking chairs.  The two 
bedrooms overlooked the street.  The Kelly family lived in an 
apartment above the saloon.  Women and children seldom went into 
the saloons in Garnet.  Their pastime was visiting each other to 
talk.  Guests visiting Mrs. Kelly would call via the outside 
stairs to the Kelly apartments.  The Kelly Saloon closed in the 
1930's and Kellys left Garnet.  This building has since been 
preserved.

Mr. Frank Fitzgerald visited Mrs. Kelly with his mother when he 
was a small boy.  Mrs. Kelly had brought up some beer for her 
guests to drink.  Frank remembers, "I can remember holding this 
big glass, it seemed big to me.  My hands wouldn't go all the way 
around it and I can remember drinking that beer and I like beer 
pretty well and I can remember that real well, cause I know I 
spilt some of the beer and was kidded about being drunk."  

Bibliography:

Fitzgerald, Frank, unknown date.  Interview about his life in 
Garnet, unpublished.

Hammond, Helen 1983.  Garnet-Montana's Last Gold Camp, Acme Press, 
Missoula, Montana.

USDI, Bureau of Land Management, 1983.  Garnet, Montana brochure, 
page 2.

Morin, Mary Jane Adams, 1995.  Interview by Bureau of Land 
Management concerning Garnet, Montana, unpublished.