Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 435
JAMES B. KELLEY

James B. KELLEY, physician, surgeon and druggist at Modale, came to Harrison County in May, 1888, and located at Modale and commenced the practice of medicine. In December, 1888, he purchased Dr. Drew'' drug business and has been thus engaged ever since. He was born in Perry County, Ohio, May 30, 1859. He is the son of Henry F. and Sophia (STRAIT) KELLEY, both natives of the Buckeye State. He remained at home with his parents on the farm until he was nineteen years of age, when he went to teaching school, which he followed six years prior to coming to Iowa to locate; however, he had been to Polk County in the spring of 1882, as he attended lectures in Des Moines in the winters of 1882-83. He attended the State University at Iowa City, in the winter of 1883-84, and received his certificate from the State Board of Pharmacy. He received his diploma from the State Board of Examiners at Des Moines, in the spring of 1886. He engaged in the drug business at St. Charles, Iowa, in 1884, and was also a practicing physician until he came to Harrison County in the spring of 1888.

The Doctor was united in marriage in Polk County, Iowa, September 3, 1884, to Miss Emma BOOTH, by which marriage union one child has been born�Callie L., November 16, 1885.

The Doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the Masonic order, having become a member at St. Charles, Iowa.

Emma (BOOTH) KELLEY was born in Jasper County, Iowa, September 9, 1863. Her mother died when she was young and when she was fourteen years of age she went to live with her brother, Dr. W. H. BOOTH, at Altoona, Polk County, Iowa, where she remained until the date of her marriage. She is a family of six children, two sisters and three brothers.

Our subject is one of a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters, he being the fourth child. He received his early education at the High School at New Lexington, Perry County, Ohio. In his political choice he is identified with the Republican party.

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