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Biographies
Source:
Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and
Cleveland, Ohio
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Publ. Chicago:
The Lewis Publishing Company
1894
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WILLIAM KEHRES,
a merchant and the Postmaster of Warrensville, was born in
Cleveland, Ohio, July 13, 1855, a son of John and Minnie
Kehres, natives of Germany. In 1847 the father located
in Cleveland, where he was afterward married, and both still
reside in that city. They were the parents of eight
children, four sons and four daughters.
William, the eldest child of the family,
received a good education in the public schools, and afterward
learned the cigarmaker's trade. In 1887 he located at
Warrensville, Cuyahoga county, where he has since been engaged
in the mercantile business, now occupying a store room 20 x 46
feet. Though the efforts of Mr. Kehres the post
office was established in this city, after having been
discontinued four years, and in February, 1890, he accepted the
position of Postmaster. In 1892 he was elected Clerk of
Warrensville township, by the Republican party.
At the age of twenty-four years, Mr. Kehres was
united in marriage with Minnie, a daughter of John
Lexzo. They have five children , - Arthur, Lizzie,
Alma, Roland and Helen. IN his social
relations, Mr. Kehres is a member of the Independent
Order of Foresters, of Ohio.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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D. A.
KEISTER, expert accountant, 405 Cuyahoga building,
Cleveland, has been a resident of this city since the first of
the year 1888, coming from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
He is a native of New Haven, Gallatin county, Illinois,
born July 22, 1863, son of Daniel B. and Anna E. (Hunter)
Keister, who moved to this city in 1893. Both the
Keister and Hunter families were among the oldest
settlers of Western Pennsylvania, five generations ago.
Temperance and longevity, as well as patriotism, have been
prominent characteristics of the ancestry, several of whom were
faithful soldiers in the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812, and
the war of the great rebellion. They have been
public-spirited in both church and State. During the late
war Mr. Daniel B. Keister took an active part, not only
using his voice upon the stump, but also aiding greatly in
actual hard work. He organized the One Hundred and
Forty-eighth Indiana Cavalry, took it to the front as Captain,
and served in the field for a year, when he resigned and
received an honorable discharge. For a number of years he
was engaged in the music business, but is now living a retired
life.
The subject of this sketch, the third of five children
in the above family, was reared from his sixth year in
Pennsylvania, on the old homestead near Pittsburg, and completed
his education at an Eastern college. At the age of fifteen
he became bookkeeper at Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and ever since
then the science and art of keeping accounts has been his
specialty. He has held many positions in the employ of
prominent firms in Pittsburg, Mount Pleasant and Uniontown,
Pennsylvania, New York city and Cleveland. At times he has
done considerable special work, to which he now gives his entire
attention. He is a true expert accountant and bookkeeper,
and has proven himself an honorable and trustworthy man.
In company with others, during the early part of last
year, 1893, he organized the Cleveland Dress-Facing and
Manufacturing Company, of which he was elected secretary and
general manager, but Sept. 23, following, a destructive fire
consumed their entire business outfit, and since that time
Mr. Keister has devoted his entire time to his profession,
in which he so easily excels.
He is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of Forest City
Lodge, No. 388. He was married in Pennsylvania, Sept. 8,
1886, to Miss Fannie B. Britt, and they have two
children, - Frank S. and Annie. Mr. and Mrs.
Keister are members of the Presbyterian Church, and worship
at the old stone church on the public square. The family
residence is in the East End.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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DANIEL KELLEY was a
pioneer of Cleveland, to which place he emigrated from New York
in 1814, and the Kelley family therefore has long since
been of considerable prominence in this city.
Joseph Kelley, a ship-builder, was the parent
tree of the family in America. His nativity is not known,
but it is very probable that he was of Welsh origin, and the
year of his birth 1690. He was an early settler of
Norwich, Connecticut, where he was a citizen in 1716.
About 1723 he married Lydia Calkins, who was a
descendant of Hugh Calkins, one of a body of
emigrants from Monmouthshire on the borders of Wales, who came
to New England in 1640, with their minister, Rev. Mr. Bimman.
Joseph and Lydia Kelley had a son,
Daniel, born in 1724, at Norwich, Connecticut, and died in
Vermont, aged nearly ninety years. In 1751 he married Abigail
Reynolds, a daughter of Joseph and Lydia
Reynolds. She bore him several children, of whom only
Daniel and Abigail ever married.
Daniel Kelley, the second, was born at
Norwich, Connecticut, Nov. 27, 1755, and in 1787 married
Jemima Stow, born at Middletown, Connecticut, Dec.
28, 1763, of English lineage, and died at Cleveland, Sept. 13
(?), 1815. They removed to Lowville, New York, in 1798.
He was a pioneer and founder of that city, where he figured
conspicuously in public life. In the fall of 1814 he and
his wife removed to Cleveland, whither several of their sons had
preceded them. In Cleveland he served as Postmaster and
County Treasurer, and died August 7, 1831. The children of
Daniel and Jemima Kelley were all born at Middletown,
Connecticut, as follows: Datus, born Apr. 24, 1788;
Alfred, born Nov/ 7, 1789; Irad, born Oct. 24, 1791;
Joseph Reynolds, born Mar. 29, 1794; Thomas
Moore, born Mar. 17, 1797; and Daniel, born Oct.
21, 1802.
Datus Kelley married, in 1811, Sara
Dean, and they had the following children: Addison,
Julius, Daniel, Samuel, Emeline,
Caroline, Elizabeth, Alfred Stow and
William Datus. About 1810, together with others
of the family, Datus Kelley came to Cleveland and
purchased a farm about one mile west of Rocky river. In
1833 he and his brother Irad visited Cunningham's
(now Kelley's) island, by solicitation of Mr.
Allen, agent for the owners, with a view of purchasing the
island. Aug. 20, 1833, the two brothers made the first
purchase of lands, 1,444.92 acres, comprising the eastern half
of the island, the price being $1.50 per acre. Other
purchases were made until the brothers became owners of the
entire island, — 3,000 acres. In 1836 Datus
Kelley removed his family to the island, on which he resided
till his death, which occurred Jan. 24, 1866. He was a
patriarch in this community, upon which he and his descendants
have exercised a lasting influence. He effected the
development of the material resources of the island by clearing
its surface of the valuable cedar forests which covered it and
cultivating the grape and peach. He established
communication with the mainland, opened limestone quarries,
built a hotel and donated a public hall to the township, and did
other deeds of public spirit, thus making more appropriate the
name of the island than such would be simply because of
ownership. He was a warm friend of education and gave
generous assistance to the founding of schools. His moral
influence was manifest in its effect upon the settlers forming
the community, to whom lands were sold.
To his noble and useful life that of
his good, motherly and charitable wife was a blessing. She
was deservingly and familiarly known by the title of "Aunt"
among the people. She was born at Martinsburg, New York, as a
daughter of Samuel Dean. The Dean
family were pioneers of Cuyahoga county, and many of the
family now live in Rockport township. Mrs.
Kelley's death preceded that of her husband, she dying Mar.
21, 1864.
Alfred Kelley, a son of
Daniel and Jemima (Stow) Kelley,
was born at or near Middletown, Connecticut, Nov. 7, 1787.
In the winter of 1798-'99 his parents removed to Lowville, New
York, where Alfred attended the common school, and
completed an academical education at Fairfield Academy. In
1807 he took up the study of law in the office of Judge
Jonas Piatt, under whose directions he continued
his studies till the spring of 1810, when he came to Cleveland,
which place at that time was a hamlet of only three framed and
six log houses. He came to Cleveland in company with his
uncle, Judge Joshua Stow, and Jared P. Kirtland,
the latter then being a young medical student.
Alfred Kelley was admitted to the Ohio bar in
1810, and, becoming Prosecuting Attorney, held that office until
1822. He was an advocate of extraordinary force and
cogency, and a very large and lucrative practice he relinquished
to take charge of the construction of the Ohio Canal, of which
he had long been an earnest projector. In 1814, along with
Hon. William A. Harper, he was elected to represent
Ashtabula, Geauga and Cuyahoga counties in the State
Legislature, in the House of which body he was then the youngest
yet most prominent and influential member.
To the Legislature he was re-elected in 1815 and 1816,
and thereafter served several terms, serving both in the House
and Senate. As a legislator he was of marked ability, was
always an advocate of advanced ideas in jurisprudence, in
finance, in internal improvement, etc., and was one of the early
advocates of the building of canals, and upon the adoption of
this policy he was, in 1822, appointed a commissioner to carry
it into effect. To him was intrusted the superintendency
of the construction of the Ohio Canal, connecting Lake Erie with
the Ohio river. Of this project he has been appropriately
called the father. Whether or not the idea of this canal
originated with him, its completion and success were due to his
energy, perseverance and ability. In October, 1840, he
removed to Columbus, this State, where he resided during the
remainder of his life.
Aug. 25, 1817, Mary Seymour Welles, oldest
daughter of Major Melancthon W. Welles, of Martinsburg,
New York, became his wife, and they had the following children:
Maria, Jane, Charlotte, Edward,
Adelaide, Henry, Helen, Frank, Annie,
Alfred and Katherine Kelley.
In 1840 Mr. Kelley was appointed one of
the canal fund commissioners, having charge of the funds
necessary to prosecute the various canal enterprises in which
Ohio was then engaged. While in the Legislature, in 1816,
Mr. Kelley drew the State Bank statute, which
nearly a half century later served as the model of our present
national banking law. He labored zealously and judiciously
to give the State a just and equitable tax system. He
introduced the first bill to abolish imprisonment for debt ever
brought before an Ohio general assembly, in 1818, and in the
grave crisis of 1841 he saved the State from the indelible
disgrace of repudiation by pledging his own personal fortune to
secure the money with which the obligations of Ohio could be
met. He was not only a lawyer of marked ability, but a
legislator of unimpeachable purpose, generous to a fault with
his own, but scrupulously exact in caring for the property of
others; disinterestedly patriotic, the good of the State was his
chief concern, and he believed that a public trust should never
be a means to personal wealth or aggrandizement. Ohio has
furnished to the nation financiers of world-wide reputation.
Alfred was the pioneer of all, the peer of any.
By several railroad companies he was chosen to direct
and superintend the construction of their roads. He was
the first president of the Columbus & Xenia Railroad (1845); was
president of the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad
(1847), and of the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad
(1857).
His entire life was full of efforts to develop the
State, to advance the education and morals of its people, and to
secure the "rights of life, liberty and property." He died
at Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 2, 1859.
Irad Kelley became a citizen of
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1810, in which year he began his long and
successful business career in this city. For many years he
was identified with the progress of Cleveland, where he was
universally known as a shrewd and honorable, if somewhat
eccentric, character. He was associated with his brother,
Datus Kelley, in the purchase of Kelley's
island, but figured less conspicuously because of his residence
at a distance. August 5, 1819, he married
Harriet Pease. He died in New York on his way
to South America, Jan. 21, 1875, being at that time the last
survivor but one of this family of pioneer brothers. The
following were the children of Irad and Harriet
Kelley: Gustavus, George, Mary,
Edwin, Charles, Franklin, Martha
Louisa, Norman, Laura Harriet and
William Henry Harrison Kelley.
Joseph Reynolds Kelley also came
to Cleveland in 1810, coming with his brothers, Alfred
and Irad. He was also a successful business man for
several years in Cleveland, where he died Aug. 23, 1823.
In 1814 he married Betsey Gould, who had by him
but one child, Horace Kelley, who died not many
years ago in Cleveland, and who bequeathed nearly the whole of
his large fortune to the founding of an art gallery and art
school in Cleveland.
Thomas Moore Kelley came to Cleveland in the
fall of 1814, along with his parents, Daniel and
Jemima Kelley. He became a prominent business
man of Cleveland, where at one time he occupied the bench, where
he gained the title of Judge Kelley, as his father
was also known. He was at one time president of the
Merchants' (now Mercantile) National Bank, and also served as a
representative in the Ohio Legislature. He married Miss
Lucy Latham, of Vermont.
Alfred Stow Kelley, a son of Datus and Sara
(Dean) Kelley, was born in Rockport, Ohio, Dec. 23, 1826.
May 21, 1857, he married Hannah Farr, who was born
at Rockport, Ohio, Aug. 9, 1837. She died at Detroit,
Michigan, Feb. 4, 1889. Alfred Stow
Kelley resided at Kelley's island till the death of
his wife, since when he has resided in the city of Cleveland.
The only child of Alfred Stow Kelley and
Hannah Farr Kelley is Hermon Alfred
Kelley, an attorney at law at Cleveland.
HERMAN A. KELLEY,
one of the representative lawyers of Cleveland, is a son of
Alfred S. Kelley, already mentioned, and a descendant of
Daniel Kelley, sketched at the beginning of this
record. He was born on Kelley's island, May 15,
1859. Nearly the whole of his life has been spent in Ohio,
his native State. He graduated at Buchtel College, at
Akron, Ohio, in 1879, taking the degree of B. S., and in 1880
the degree of A. B. was conferred upon him by the same
institution. Predilection led him to the profession of
law, and his legal education has been more thorough than that of
the average young man entering that profession. He
attended Harvard Law School in this country, and Gottingen
University in Germany. Having completed his course in the
law, and being admitted to the bar in Ohio, Mar. 7, 1883, and
also to the bar of Michigan, he located at Detroit, where he
practiced for about eight months. In December, 1883, he
located in Cleveland, and has since continued in the active
practice of his profession in this city. In September,
1885, Mr. Kelley formed a partnership with
Arthur A. Stearns, under the firm name of Stearns &
Kelley, which firm existed until 1891, after which date
till 1893 Mr. Kelley was first assistant
Corporation Counsel for Cleveland. In 1893 he formed a
partnership with Messrs. Hoyt & Dustin, under the present
firm name of Hoyt, Dustin & Kelley.
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Alfred Kellogg
pg. 611
Martin
Kellogg
pg. 611 |
ALFRED KELLOGG
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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D. H.
Kimberley
pg. 345 |
DAVID HENRY KIMBERLEY
Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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Charles A. Kuzel
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CHARLES A. KUZEL Source: Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of
Cleveland, Ohio - Publ. Chicago - The Lewis Publishing Company - 1894
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