Kelley, Harman

KELLEY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/5/2009 at 16:11:45

Harman Kelley

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.35, Council Bluffs)
Harman Kelley, marble works, Council Bluffs, was born in Vermont in 1820, and in 1849, removed to Western New York, where he remained till 1872. In 1873, he came to Council Bluffs and engaged in marble-cutting; he employs six men in the shop and two on the road; carries about $2,000 worth of stock, and his annual sales amount to about $9,000; he has always been engaged in the marble business. He was married in Vermont; his mother is still living in Western New York, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years; his father died there in 1868. Mr. Kelley is a member of the Masonic fraternity.