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Johnson Hindin Genealogy
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 1854 - 1937
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| Born |
17 Apr 1854 |
New York, New York  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1 Oct 1937 |
| Buried |
Everett Cemetery, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania |
| Person ID |
I1521 |
Johnson Hindin Tree |
| Last Modified |
19 Dec 2018 |
| Family |
Annie ASHCOM, b. 13 May 1859, Hopewell, Pennsylvania , d. 12 Sep 1950, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Married |
24 Jun 1886 |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F525 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- William received his B.A., Yale, '74 (Psi U.); E.M., Columbia, 1877. He was a mine manager (see Who's Who in America). His hobbies were: Road building, forestry. Clubs: University (New York and Chicago). In 1925 he resided in Iron Mountain, Mich.
William was a superintendent of the [iron] furnace. He lived in West Riddlesburg, PA. He and Annie were married by Rev. Jesse Akers.
The following biography of William was obtained from A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People, by Alvah L. Sawyer (1911) (published online by Google Books):
William Kelly was born April 17, 1854, in New York City, of Irish ancestry, his paternal great-grandparents having been life-long residents of the Emerald Isle. The home of Robert Kelly, Sr., grandfather of Mr. Kelly, was Bailieborough, county Cavan, Ireland. While yet a young man he emigrated to the United States and engaged in mercantile business in New York city.
Robert Kelly, Jr., father of Mr. Kelly, after graduating from Columbia College joined his two brothers in the business founded by their father. He took great interest in educational matters and was a member of the Board of Education. As such he was instrumental in the founding of the Free Academy, now the College of the City of New York. He was a member of the board of the House of Refuge, New York, chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester, which conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. He served the city also as comptroller. He married Arietta Ann Hutton, who was born at Rhinecliff, New York. Her father, Aldert Hutton, was of English ancestry, and her mother, Elizabeth Hutton, nee Smedis, was born in Kingston, New York, of Holland ancestry. Of the union of Robert Kelly and Arietta A. Hutton three children were born, Florence, Robert and William. Florence, wife of William P. Prentice, resides in New York city. Robert, a citizen of Superior, Wisconsin, is general manager of the Land and River Company and vice president of the First National Bank of Superior.
Receiving the rudiments of his education in a private school in his native city, William Kelly was fitted for college at a preparatory school in Tarrytown, New York. In 1874 he was graduated from Yale College, with the degree of B. A., and immediately after toured Great Britain and France with some of his classmates. Returning to New York, he entered Columbia University, and was there graduated from the School of Mines with the class of 1877, receiving the degree of E. M. Prior to his graduation, however, in the summer of 1876, Mr. Kelly spent a short time with Dr. James Douglas, at the works of the Chemical Copper Company at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, and after his graduation was for a time employed in New York city in the office of his uncle's estate. Going to Youngstown, Ohio, in 1878, he was for a part of a year an assistant chemist and bookkeeper for the Himrod Furnace Company, the following year again assisting Dr. Douglas at the copper works at Phoenixville. In 1880 Mr. Kelly went to Riddlesburg, Pennsylvania, where he was assistant manager for the Kemble Coal & Iron Company until 1885. Accepting then a position as superintendent at the Glamorgan Iron Company's Works in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, he remained there for a few months, and then returned to Riddlesburg, where he became assistant manager for the reorganized Kemble Iron Company. Resigning the position in 1889, Mr. Kelly accepted the superintendency of the Penn Iron Mining Company's properties at Vulcan, Dickinson county, Michigan, a branch of the Cambria Iron Company, now the Cambria Steel Company, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Two years later he was promoted to manager. In 1902 Mr. Kelly became manager, also, of the Republic Iron Company's mine, located sixty miles north of Vulcan. He is treasurer of the Penn Store Company, Vulcan, and vice president of the Commercial Bank of Iron Mountain. He is the author of several papers that have been published in the transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the proceedings of the Lake Superior Mining Institute.
Mr. Kelly is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, of London, England; the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America; the Lake Superior Mining Institute, of which he was president in 1899; the society for the Promotion of Engineering Education; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and the National Geographic Society. Mr. Kelly is likewise affiliated with several social organizations, being a member of the University Club of New York City; the University Club of Chicago; the Pine Grove Golf Club, of Iron Mountain, and the Houghton Club of Houghton, Michigan.
A Democrat in politics during his earlier years, he was appointed by Governor Pattison a member of the board of examiners of Bituminous Mine Inspectors of Pennsylvania, and served as president of the board. In 1896, being strenuously opposed to the free coinage of silver, he identified himself with the Republican party, and has since been an active supporter of its principles. He has served several terms as president of the School Board of Norway township; chairman of the County Board of Road Commissioners; and has been a member of the Board of Control of the Michigan College of Mines since 1897, serving as its president since June, 1904. He is also a member of the Public Domain Commission of the state of Michigan.
Mr. Kelly married, in 1886, Annie Ashcom, who was born at Hopewell, Pennsylvania, a daughter of John [sic] Wesley and Mary (Smith) Ashcom, who were both of sterling colonial ancestry. William A. Kelly, the only child born to Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, died in 1898, at the age of eleven years.
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