Husband Morris Leech Kelley 1
AKA: Leach Kelly 2
Born: 30 Dec 1849 - Slippery Rock Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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Father: John J. Kelley (1824-1907) 1 3
Mother: Elvira Leech (1828-1908) 1
Marriage: Aug 1908 4
Other Spouse: Sophia Kiester ( -1889) 2 4 - Aug 1873 4
Other Spouse: Sarah Toryson ( -1907) 4 - Oct 1893 4
Wife Catherine Riley 4
Born: - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
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General Notes: Husband - Morris Leech Kelley
At first he attended the public schools of his native township, and this training was supplemented by a course at a then popular academy at Dunkirk, New York. Upon the completion of his school education he took up the carpenter's trade under the able supervision and teaching of his father, and during the winter of his eighteenth year came to Pittsburgh, PA, and worked in the drug store of L. H. White, at No. 187 Federal street, continuing this for three winters. During the summers of these years he worked for his father in the carpentering business. The next two years were spent in association with his father, in the oil fields of Armstrong and Venango counties, where they filled contracts for the erection of oil rigs, hotels, and other building which that section demanded at the time. In the course of ten years he had amassed a considerable fortune, and then purchased a drug store at Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, and conducted this four years. In 1887 he removed to McKeesport, Pennsylvania, where he purchased the drug store of B. E. Prichard, on the Market House corner, and was very successful in his conduct of this. In December, 1912, he erected a three-story brick building on Market street, covering a ground space of forty by seventy feet. There were two stores on the ground floor and apartments above these. The drug store of Mr. Kelley occupied one-half of the lower floor, and was the best supplied store of its kind in that section of the state. The fraternal affiliation of Mr. Kelley is as follows: Youghiogheny Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; McKeesport Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; McKeesport Commandery, Knights Templar; Pittsburgh Consistory, Scottish Rite; Syria Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; McKeesport Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In the winter of 1911-12, Mr. Kelley and his wife made a trip around the world on the "Cleveland," touching at many countries, and consuming four months on the journey. [GPHWP, 714]