BIO: M. J. KELLY, Clearfield County, PA
 
Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally

Copyright 2005.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/

NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm
_____________________________________________________________

From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 365.
_____________________________________________________________ 

  M. J. KELLY, proprietor of the Aberdeen Hotel, at Grampian, Pa., where he 
is one of the leading citizens, was born October 27, 1871, at Bellefonte, 
Center county, Pa., and is a son of Thomas F. and Mary (Hehir) Kelly.
  Mr. Kelly was educated at Bellefonte and other points and has been a 
resident of Grampian since 1902, when he succeeded McMillen & Ryan, as 
proprietor of the Aberdeen Hotel, a modern, hot-water heated building, having 
twenty bed-rooms and catering to transient trade.  Mr. Kelly makes a 
specialty of his fine table, the best the market affords being placed before 
his guests.  His charges are very moderate, being $1.50 per day.  His 
patronage is dependable, travelers making it convenient to return on their 
trips so that they may enjoy the comforts of Mr. Kelly's house at Grampian.  
In addition to his hotel business, Mr. Kelly has other interests, being the 
owner of a coal mine at Fernwood, which is operated under the name of the 
Fernwood Coal Company.  He owns sixty acres and leases 100 more, the vein 
here being two feet and thirty-two inches thick.  He gives employment to 
thirty-two or more men.
  Mr. Kelly married Miss Elizabeth Smith, a daughter of Edward Smith, of 
Snowshoe, Pa., and they have two children, Mary and Katherine.  Mr. Kelly and 
wife are members of the Catholic church.  In politics he is a Democrat but 
has never accepted any office except that of school director of the borough.
  He is identified with the Elks at Clearfield, and is numbered with the 
honest, upright and useful men of Grampian.