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A. B. Kelly
A. B. KELLY, banker, Tionesta, was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., in January,
1837, and is a son of James D. and Sarah (Bennett) Kelly, natives of the North
of Ireland, and of Scotch-Irish parentage. They were quite early settlers of
Pittsburgh, where they lived and died. The father carried on business as a
lumberman, and was also proprietor of a planing-mill in Pittsburgh. A. B.
Kelly was reared in his native city, and educated in the public schools and
Washington and Jefferson College. He began his business career as a driller in
the Venango oil field, which occupation he followed during the year 1860, and
in 1861 he embarked in the manufacture of tight oil barrels by machinery, in
Tionesta, in which he was engaged until the fall of 1866. He then went into
the oil business as a producer, and also engaged in lumbering. He is now a
member of the firm of May, Park & Co., bankers, of Tionesta, which firm
was organized in 1872, and has been cashier of the bank since its
organization. April 28, 1863, Mr. Kelly married Frances Augusta, a daughter of
Hezekiah and Frances A. (Thatcher) May, of Tionesta, and they have seven
children: May Stanley (Mrs. Charles Bonner), Arthur Wellington, James
Huntington, Benjamin May, H. Edward, Elsie and Archibald Howard. Mr. and Mrs.
Kelly are members of the Presbyterian Church. He is a member of the F. &
A. M. and I. O. O. F.; politically he is a Republican, and was a delegate to
the Republican National Convention held at Chicago in 1888.Source: Page(s) 935-936, Chapter 15 Biographical Sketches – Tionesta Township
and Borough of Tionesta
Hickory and Harmony Townships
History of Counties of McKean, Elk and Forest, Pennsylvania.
Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co., 1890.
Transcribed November 2005 by Nathan Zipfel for the Forest County Genealogy
Project
Published 2005 by the Forest County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project
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