Hon. Eben Smith Kelly and Nancy Davidson

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Husband Hon. Eben Smith Kelly ¹

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           Born: 1 Feb 1794 - Meredith, Belknap Co, NH 1
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           Died: 28 Mar 1829 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
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         Father: W. Bowdoin Kelly (      -      ) 1
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       Marriage: 26 Sep 1822 2

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Wife Nancy Davidson ²

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         Father: Hugh Davidson (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 F Mary Kelly ¹

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         Spouse: William D. Robinson (1820/1820-Aft 1891) 1 3 4
           Marr: Jun 1852 1

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Eben Smith Kelly

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He was born at Meredith, New Hampshire. He left home on September 13, 1813, for Steubenville, Ohio, where he arrived on the 17th of October. He read law with B. Tappan, of Steubenville, and Judge Baldwin, of Pittsburgh, was admitted to the Pittsburgh bar November 17, 1815, and soon thereafter moved to Kittanning, Armstrong County, where he engaged in practice. He was prothonotary of Armstrong county from 1816 to 1821, and in 1826 was elected as State Senator from the Twenty-fourth Senatorial District of Pennsylvania, then composed of the counties of Venango, Warren, Jefferson, Indiana, Cambria and Armstrong.
He was a man of extensive reading and literary tastes of a high order, being familiar with all the famous English authors and Latin poets. On March 18, 1829, on motion of Hon. Richard Vaux, of Philadelphia, he was unanimously elected as a corresponding member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 379.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 380.

3 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 575.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 982.