Husband James Howard Kelly 1
Born: 11 May 1870 - Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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Father: Dr. James H. Kelly, M.D. (1834- ) 1 3
Mother: Nancy Horton Gamble (1836- ) 1 3
Marriage: 20 May 1902 4
Wife Gertrude Pearsall 4
Born: - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA
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Father: Samuel Pearsall ( - ) 4
Mother: Elizabeth Wooten ( - ) 4
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1 F Eleanore Kelly 4
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General Notes: Husband - James Howard Kelly
He attended the public schools of his native place and the seminary at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and finished his education at Washington and Jefferson College, at the age of twenty-three. For three years he taught school in the neighborhood of his home in Unity township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and in January, 1894, was elected principal of the high school at Jeannette, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in that capacity for four years and then entered upon the duties of bookkeeper for the Old Meadow Rolling Mill Company at Scottdale, where he continued for one year. He next located at Monessen, accepted a position with the American Tin Plate Company in the spring of the year 1899. He was associated with this company for eighteen months, at the end of that time receiving the appointment as cashier of the First National Bank of Monessen (of which he was already a director), which position he filled until January, 1905, when he was elected to the presidency of that institution. In 1902 he, in company with others, organized the Monessen Savings and Trust Company, capital $150,000.00, becoming one of the original board of directors, and in 1904 was elected to the office of vice-president and general manager of the company. He was also treasurer and a director of the Monessen Foundry and Machine Company, one of the most successful plants of its class in the Pittsburgh district, and one of its earliest stock-holders, being one of six. In addition to these important official positions he was a director and treasurer of Grandview Cemetery Association, and a director on the public school board and treasurer of the same for several years.
He took an active interest in the affairs of the First Presbyterian church of Monessen and was one of the charter members, in fact the first person elected to membership of that church and the only member for three months. He was trustee during the beginning of the church history, a member of the building committee, was elected one of the first elders, and was the first Sabbath school superintendent. In 1904 he represented Redstone Presbytery at the synod of Pennsylvania held at Oxford. He was also largely interested in building operations, having assisted in the erection of Monessen's four school buildings, three bank buildings, Monessen Opera House, numerous dwelling houses and a large business block, which was occupied by his brother, Richard S., as a furniture and undertaking establishment, a drug store, a lodge hall and four flats.