Westmoreland-Indiana County PA Archives Biographies.....Kelly, James H. January 7, 1831

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 DR. JAMES H. KELLY, who has been successfully engaged in the practice of
medicine for thirty years in the counties of Indiana and Westmoreland and who
has been in continuous practice at Pleasant Unity since 1864, is a son of Robert
and Rachel (Glasgow) Kelly and was born at Kelly’s Ford (now Tunnelton’s
station), Indiana county, Pa., January 7, 1831. His grandfather, Samuel Kelly,
was born in eastern Pennsylvania, emigrated to Indiana county where he took up
at Kelly’s Ford the farm which is still in possession of his descendants. A
settler’s fort was erected on his farm and while he was serving as an Indian
scout his wife and children frequently were in this fort and often slept at
night among the wild pea vines in the woods on account of the Indians. One of
these children was Robert Kelly (father), who was born in 1790 and died December
18, 1844. He was an extensive farmer and stock-raiser and an old-line whig in
politics. He married Rachel Glasgow, who was born in Fayette county, Pa., in
1800 and died in 1887. They had nine children, five sons and four daughters:
Robert, Ann J., John S., Minerva, Dr. James H., Samuel, Mary E., Albert G. and
Caroline. Ann J., Minerva and Caroline occupy the old homestead; John S. is at
Danville, Iowa, and Mary E. married Alex. Lemmon and resides at Cadmus, Kansas.

   Dr. James H. Kelly was reared on the home farm, received his education in
Saltsburg academy and then determined upon entering the medical profession, he
read medicine with Dr. H. G. Lomison at Saltsburg, attended one course of
lectures at Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, and practiced medicine for
three years at Cherry Tree, Indiana county, Pa. He then took a course of
lectures at the Medical department of the University of Michigan and came (1861)
to Pleasant Unity where he has been engaged in the successful practice of his
profession ever since. In connection with his practice he has established a
first-class drug store in which he keeps a constant supply of fresh and pure
drugs for his own use and the accommodation of the public.

   On September 11, 1860, he married Nancy H. Gamble, daughter of George Gamble,
of Cherry Tree, Indiana county, Pa. Dr. and Mrs. Kelly are the parents of five
children, four sons and one daughter: G. Frank, a graduate of Lock Haven State
Normal school and principal of Scottdale High school; Clark M., teaching at
McClure's Works in Fayette county, Pa.; James Howard, teaching at Heela; Richard
S., attending Saltsburg academy, and Clara E., who will graduate at Lock Haven
State Normal school in the class of 1890.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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