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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Madison County, Ohio
Its People, Industries and Institutions
Chester E. Bryan, Supervising Editor
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
- ILLUSTRATED -
Published by B. F. Bowden & Company, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
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HENRY KELLY.
The London Gun Club, of which Henry Kelly is
president, is an institution of which the people of Madison
county, who are interested in sports, are very proud, since
the club has attained distinction for having developed
several men who are among the leading shots in the country.
Its members take part in state, national and international
trap-shooting contests. It is no small honor to have
been the president of this organization since its
establishment about eight years ago. Mr.
Kelly has won honors in state, nation and international
meetings, and is perhaps the oldest man in Ohio to shoot on
the line. He holds his own well with the younger men
and he also enjoys hunting large game and frequently visits
the hunting preserves of Virginia, Maine, Montana and
Minnesota. He has hunted moose and other big game in
the Northern woods. He also enjoys fishing and spends
his vacation in this sport.
Henry Kelly, a native of Auglaize county,
Ohio, was born on Apr. 24, 1839, and was taken to Columbus,
Ohio, at the age of three years, by his parents, Reuben
and Elizabeth (Baughman) Kelly, both of whom were
natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kelly's father was
a farmer, but operated the mill at Columbus. Henry
attended school at Columbus until thirteen years of age,
when the family moved to Madison county, where his father
purchased a farm two miles west of Summerford, on the
National road and on the county line. He lived on that
farm until an advanced age. A short time before his
death he built a house in Summerford, where he died in 1904
at the age of eighty-three. His wife died about one
year later. They had a family of nine children, three
of whom died in infancy.
Of the children born to Reuben and Elizabeth
(Baughman) Kelly, one child, Mary, died early in
life; Laura, who is unmarried, and Elizabeth,
the widow of William Buzzard, live together in
London; Frank is located in California, but was a
carpenter in Delaware, Ohio, until about two years ago;
John lives in the soldiers' home at Sandusky, Ohio
having served in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment,
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for a period of one year during the
Civil War.
Henry Kelly has lived at Summerford since
he was thirteen years old. He attended the district
school and about the time he finished his education
enlisted, in September, 1861, in the Fortieth Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, serving three years and nine teen days
in Company C. Most of the time he was on detail in
pioneer service, but he was engaged in several battles,
including those of Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga.
In the Atlanta campaign he was captured while detailed to
secure beef cattle for the army. He had started to
camp with a drove of stock when he ran into the Rebel
cavalry. He knew a squad of Union cavalry was
following him and they had not gone over a half mile until
they ran into the Union squad, and he had the pleasure of
escorting his own captors back to camp. He was not
wounded during the entire war and was with his command from
the beginning of his enlistment until his discharge.
Since leaving the army he has followed the carpenter's trade
continuously.
In 1865 Henry Kelly was married to
Elizabeth Henderson, a native of Summerford, the
daughter of G. D. and Catherine (Kelly) Henderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly have lived together for fifty
years. They have been the parents of five children, as
follow: Helena the wife of William
McKinley, of Plattsburg, Clark county, Ohio; Harley,
who lives in London; Edna, the wife of Raleigh
Cartzdafner, a machinist, at Springfield, Ohio;
Eugene, who is associated with Howard Lewis
on the farm; and Nora, the wife of Cade
Powers, of South Charleston, Ohio.
Henry Kelly is a member of Lyon Post No.
21, Grand Army of the Republic, and has served in almost
every official capacity in this post. He is one of the
substantial citizens of Somerford township, and is widely
admired for his sterling integrity and his upright moral
worth.
Source: History of Madison County, Ohio -
Illustrated - Published by B. F. Bowden & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Indiana - 1915 - Page 771 |
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