Kelley, J. M.

KELLEY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/19/2008 at 13:41:00

J. M. Kelley

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.162, Macedonia Twp.)
J. M. Kelley, banker, Macedonia, was born in Johnson County, Ill., March 18, 1852; his father, Richard Y. Kelley, was born in Tennessee February 14, 1813; emigrated from Tennessee to Illinois about 1835, where he raised his family. He was a farmer, and died June 10, 1860. Subject's mother, Sarah E. F. (Ballowe) Kelley, was born in Virginia July 3, 1814; was the mother of eight children of whom are subject is the youngest; she died in Mills County, Iowa, November 14, 1873, where she and her husband had emigrated in 1854. Mr. Kelley is a graduate of the State University of Iowa, of the class of 1876. He is now Cashier of the Macedonia Bank, where he has been for two years. Mr. Kelley had been a law student, but never sought admission to the bar; he has been engaged in the mercantile business, and served as Deputy Treasurer of Mills County, Iowa. He is connected with the Masonic Lodge of the place, and is a young man of very high standard and influence in the community.