Hardin-Crawford County OhArchives Biographies.....Kelly, W. A. 1826 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1883)

W. A. KELLY, farmer, P. O. Kenton, is one of the oldest residents of this
county. He was born in Fayette County, Penn., March 26, 1826. and is the son of
Samuel Kelly. His grandfather, Alexander Kelly, lived in Ireland. The
grandfather of our subject had a family of twenty-four children, and the father
of our subject moved to Crawford County, Ohio, when the latter was three years
of age, where he entered 320 acres of land, and finally, in 1832, came to Goshen
Township, which has been the home of our subject ever since-a period of
fifty-one years. Mr. W. A. Kelly received a common school education and learned
farming for his occupation. He is the owner of a farm of 160 acres in Section
20, Goshen Township. He also gives some of his time to auctioneering, which be
has pursued successfully for twenty-five years. He has formed two marriages; the
first was on March 26, 1852, when he married Mary, the daughter of John Henry,
of Dudley Township; and the second union was on May 1, 1872, with Mrs. Elnora
Johns, the widow of John Johns, and daughter of John and Elizabeth (Porter)
Souls. Her mother was born in Maryland in 1800. Mrs. Kelly is a native of
Waynesburg, Penn., where she was born August 15, 1825. Mr. Kelly is the father
of eight children, five living. He remembers Kenton when there was but one
house, and when the whole surrounding country was a forest, and was one of the
three boys who cut the spicebrush for a public dinner given when Harrison was
elected President. Mr. Kelly is a member of the Masonic Lodge in Kenton, where
he has held the office of Senior Warden; is also member of the Grange, in which
he has filled the offices of Master, Secretary and Lecturer, and is now Master
of the County Grange; for five years he was Justice of the Peace, and has acted
as Trustee a number of times.



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Goshen Township

Excerpt from

"The History of Hardin County, Ohio"
           containing
A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; ITS TOWNSHIPS, TOWNS, CHURCHES,
 SCHOOLS, ETC.; GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS; MILITARY
   RECORD; PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT
         MEN; HISTORY OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY;
             HISTORY OF OHIO; MISCELLANEOUS
                  MATTERS, ETC., ETC.

              CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO.
                          1883

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