George W. Kelley Biography


	This biography is from "Memorial and biographical record; an illustrated
 	compendium of biography, containing a compendium of local biography,
	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Page 371

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GEORGE W. KELLEY, editor of the"Woonsocket News", Woonsocket, South 
Dakota, is conducting this paper with signal ability and success, and 
holds a prominent position among the young journalists of the state. 
none of whom have better prospects for a brilliant future in their 
chosen career. He was born in Iowa in 1879, but a year later was 
brought by his parents to Woonsocket, and the father, who had 
previously engaged in agricultural pursuits, bought the "News," of 
which he is still owner. He made it one of the most popular journals in 
the county and secured for it a large circulation. Our subject 
completed his education by graduating from the Woonsocket school. As 
soon as old enough to be of any assistance he began to aid his father 
in the office, and was instrumental in gaining for the paper the high 
reputation which it now has. In 1897 he was given full charge of the 
same, and has since successfully published it. From the time the paper 
was established, in 1883, until 1891, it was an Independent Republican 
sheet, but since then has supported the Populist principles.