Hon. James Kerr Kelly

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Husband Hon. James Kerr Kelly ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 16 Feb 1819 - near Spring Mills, Centre Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Kelly (      -1838) 2 3 5
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. James Kerr Kelly

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He graduated at Princeton College in 1839, was admitted to the bar in 1842, and went to California in 1849, from thence to the Territory of Oregon in 1851; was elected by the Legislative Assembly of Oregon in 1852 as one of the three commissioners to prepare a code of laws for the Territory. He was a member of the Legislative Council from 1853-57; in 1855 he was elected lieutenant-colonel of the First Regiment of Oregon Mounted Volunteers, and was engaged in the Yakima Indian war in 1855 and 1856; was elected a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of Oregon; senator in the Legislative Assembly of Oregon, 1860-64; appointed United States district attorney for Oregon in 1860 by President Buchanan, which he declined to accept; he was elected United States senator from Oregon as a Democrat, serving from March 4, 1871, to March 3, 1877.

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 206.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 894.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 571.

4 Helen M. Snyder, Genealogy of Robert Beatty 1760-1823 (Franklin, PA: Self-published.), Addendum.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 127.