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KELLEY


KELLEY


Romney, Oct. 22, 1861, and was appointed to the command of the department of Harper's Ferry and Cumberland, but on account of Ids wounds ■was relieved at his own request in January. 18G2. In July, 1863. he returned to his command and was given charge of the department of "West Virginia. lie pursued General Lee after his passage of the Potomac, and dispersed the Con- federate camp under General Imboden near Moorfield, Va.. in November, 1863. He won the battles at Cumberland, Md., and at New Creek and Moorfield, Va., in 1864, and was brevetted major- general of volunteers. March 13, 1865. He was appointed collector of internal revenue for the 1st division of West Virginia in 1866, and was ap- pointed by President Haves superintendent of the Hot Springs, Ark., I'eservation, 1876. He was made examiner of pensions in 1883 by President Arthur. He died in Oakland. Md., July 16, 1891. KELLEY, David Campbell, clergyman, was born at Leeville, Tenn., Dec. 25, 1833; son of John and Margaret Lavinia (Campbell) Kelley; grandson of Dennis and Elizabeth(Thompson) Kel- ley, and of Col. David and Jane (Montgomery) Campbell. Dennis Kelley served in the war of the Revolution, and Col. David Campbell estab- lished the fort called Campbell's Station in East Tennessee in 1786. David Campbell Kelley was graduated from Cumberland university, Tenn., in 1851; was licensed to preach in 1850; and joined the Tennessee conference of the M.E. churcli, south, at Pulaski, in 1851. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Nashville in 1853, and was a missionary in China, 1852-56. He enlisted as a private in the cavalry service of the Confederate army and was successively major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel and acting brigadier-general of cavalry under Gen. N. B. Forrest, 1861-65, being second in command under that officer, sharing in most of his cam- paigns and being present with that leader in many of his general engagements. He conducted seven successful independent campaigns in com- mand of a brigade. He was pastor of Lebanon station, 1867-68; presiding elder of Lebanon dis- trict. 1869; pastor of Tulip Street station, 1870; McKendree station, 1871-73; presiding elder of the Nashville district, 1874-75; and again pastor at McKendree, 1876-79. He was associate secretary of the board of missions, 1874-76, during which time he organized the Woman's Foreign Mission- ary society; was treasurer of the board, 1882-88; and pastor of Gallatin station, Tenn.. 1889-90. He was candidate for governor of Tennessee on the Prohibition ticket in 1890, his canvass of the state giving the ticket double its usual vote. After this lie filled a number of i)astoral charges, was delegate to the general <'onference of the M.E. church, south, in 1878, 1882, 1886, 1890, 1894


and 1898 and was projector of the movement which resulted in Vauderbilt university. He was trustee of Vanderbilt university, 1873-88, and first .secretary of the board. He secured the funds for the erection of Nashville College for Young Ladies, to be connected witii Vander- bilt universitj'. He commanded Forrest's Vet- eran Corps of Cavalry with the rank of major- general, 1897. He was presiding elder of the Nasliville district, 1898-19U0. He received the degree of D.D. from Cumberland university in 1868 and that of LL.D. from Nashville university in 1896; was electeil president of the Tennessee Society of the Sons of the American Revolution in 1888; and a member of the American Insti- tute of Christian Philosophy and of tiie American Institute of Civics. He is the author of: A Sttort MetJtod icith Modern Doubt, and contributions to religious ]»erioilicals.

KELLEY, Edgar Stillman, composer, was born at Sparta, Wis., April 14, 1857; son of Hiram Edgar and Mary Clarinda (Bingham) Kelley; grandson of Norman and Maria ( Jencks) Kellej' and of Luther Stillman and Fidelia Pearce (Rockwell) Bingham, and a descendant of William Kelley; born in Rhode Island in 1720, a soldier in the American Revolution; of Joseph Jencks of Massachusetts Bay colony, 1640, who made the dies for the Pine Tree shilling; of Thomas Bing- ham, emigrated, 1640, from Sheffield, England; and of Deacon William Rockwell, Dorchester, ]\Iass., 1630. His collegiate education was aban- doned on account of ill health, but he pursued the study of music in Chicago under N. Ledochow- ski and Clarence Eddy, 1874-76: attended the Con- servatory of music, Stuttgart, Germany, 1876-80, where he took a course in composition under Max Seifriz, the royal court conductor, and studied piano with AVilhelm Speidel, and organ with Friedrich Fink. On his return in 1880 he took up his residence in San Francisco, where he wrote his first important work, the overture and inci- dental music to Macljeth. He settled in New York city in 1886 as a composer and lecturer on musical topics, and was a special lecturer on music in the extension department of theUniver- sitj' of the State of New York from 1896. His principal works include: music to Macbeth, pro- duced with the play (1885 and 1887); The Phases of Love, a series of songs (1886); Puritania (opera, 1892); orchestral suite, Aladdin (1894); music to PromothcHS Bound (1897); musical set- tings to poems of Edgar Allan Poe, — Eldorado and Tsrnfel. for voice and orchestra: music for the drama Ben Hur (1899), besides various songs and jiiano jiieces.

KELLEY, Hall Jackson, pioneer, was born in Northwooil. X.II.. Feb. 28.1790. He was grad- uated from Middlebury college, A.B., 1813, A.M.,