Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Shelly, Anthony S.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township N-Z


   ANTHONY S. SHELLY of the firm of Stauffer & Shelly, 
publishers, P.O. Quakertown, was born in Milford township, 
this county, February 28, 1853, and is a son of Levi S. and 
Barbara (Shelly) Shelly.  His ancestors on both sides for 
three generations back were Shellys.  His paternal 
grandfather was Henry B. Shelly, and his maternal 
grandfather was Jacob Shelly.  Anthony S. received his 
earliest education in the common schools, and at the age of 
17 years attended the Mennonite seminary, at Wadsworth, 
Ohio, one year.  After an interval of two years spent in 
teaching, he entered the Millersville State Normal school, 
from which institution he was graduated in 1875, in the 
normal course.  He then taught school one year in Milford, 
and the following year at Muncy, Lycoming county, this 
state.  In 1877 he returned to Wadsworth, and took charge of 
the normal department of the seminary, remaining two years.  
Returning to his native county he became principal of the 
Newtown borough schools, which position he filled for five 
years.  The succeeding two years (1884-86) he spent in 
Kansas as a teacher in the Mennonite seminary at Halstead, 
Harvey county.  In 1886 he returned to Bucks county, and 
became one of the proprietors of the Quakertown "Free Press" 
and "Patriot and Reformer."  In 1875 he was married to 
Priscilla Stauffer, of Milford township, this county.  Their 
children are: James Monroe, Florence and William Gilmore.  
Mr. and Mrs. Shelly are members of the Mennonite church.