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The following Biographical sketch was copied from the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883.
page 767, Jefferson Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.
"JOHN KELLY is a native of Philadelphia, and the son of GEORGE and ELIZABETH KELLY, born respectively in Ireland and New Jersey. JOHN KELLY'S maternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and his father a soldier in the War of 1812, under General HARRISON. The father had enlisted in Philadelphia for five years, but was stricken with disease which terminated his life. Our subject's eldest brother, WILLIAM, served under Commodore TAYLOR, during the war between Spain and Mexico, and later enlisted under STEWART in the naval service of the United States. He was discharged in New York when La Fayette came to that port, and again shipped, this time under Commodore PORTER, and was lost, as reported, in the Mediterranean Sea. JOHN KELLY learned carriage making in Philadelphia, worked at his trade four or five years in Chester County, Pennsylvania, then at Covington, Kentucky, from 1837 until 1839, and then at Indianapolis until 1846, and then at Broad Rapids, where he ran a shop. In 1858, he came to this county, and to his present farm in 1860. He was married in Campbell County, Kentucky, in March, 1839, to ANN RICHISON, a native of that State. Of the nine children born to this union, THOMAS J. and MINNIT were twins and died in infancy; WILLIAM D. and JAMES M. were also twins; William, a member of the Fifteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was killed at Stone River, and JAMES, of the Eighteenth Regulars, was shot below the knee at Chickamauga; JULIA M. and ELIZABETH J. are deceased; AMANDA A. and ISABELLA are married and reside at Logansport (Cass County, Indiana); CHARLES is living with his father in this township."
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