KELLEY
KELLEY
1820, and settled in Boston, Mass., as master of a
grammar school. He was emplo3'ed by a railroad
company in Maine as a surveyor, and also planned
a canal to be built from Boston to the Connecti-
cut river and a railroad from the city of Mexico
to Vera Cruz, He projected a settlement west of
the Rocky Mountains in 1817, and in 1829 procured
from the Massachusetts legislature an act of in-
corporation of the " American Society for En-
couraging the Settlement of Oregon Territory."
He organized several jjarties for the settlement of
this territory in 1831, one of which, a party of
Americans from Monterey, Mexico, succeeded in
reaching Oregon, where they were promptly ex-
pelled by the Hudson Bay company, and Mr.
Kelley returned to Boston and abandoned all
further colonization projects. He received the
degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1820. He is the
author of: GeograjiMcal Memoir of Oregon, the
first map of that territory and a manual for the
guidance of emigrants (1830); A History of the
Settlement of Oregon and of the Interior of Upper
California and of Persecutions and Afflictions of
J'orty Years' Continuance, endured by the Author
(1868). He died in Palmer, Mass., Jan. 17, 1874.
KELLEY, James Douglas Jerrold, naval officer, was born in New York city, Dec. 25, 1847. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval academy by President Lincoln, Oct. 3, 1864, and was gradu- ated in 1868. He was promoted ensign, April 19, 1869; master, July 12, 1870; lieutenant, Aug. 13, 1872; lieutenant-commander, June 27, 1893; and commander in 1899. He was prize essayist, and was awarded a gold medal at the U.S. Naval institute in 1881; was judge advocate of the Kearsarge court of inquiry, 1897; a member and chairman of the board of auxiliary vessels, 1898; was appointed inspector of merchant ves- sels, New Y'ork citj'. May 13, 1897; and senior aide to Rear- Admiral Philip, commandant at the Brooklyn navy yard, in 1898. He was elected an associate member of the Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers. He is the author of: The Question of Ships (1884); American Yachts (1884); A Desperate Chance (1886); Our Navy, its Growth and Achievements (1894); TJie Ship's Company, and Other Sea People (1896); Tlie Navy of the United States, 1S75-1S99 (1899); editor of Modern Ships of War (1888); co-author with Stanley Lane Poole of The Story of the Bar- bary Corsairs (1890); and a contributor of im- portant professional articles to various periodi- cals.
KELLEY, William Darrah, representative, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 1814; son of David and Hannah (Darrah) Kelley, and grandson of John Kelley, of Salem, N.J., an officer in the army of General Wasliington. His ancestors were Irish and Frencli Huguenots on
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his father's side and English on his mother's side.
His father died when he was a mere lad, and he
was at school until 1825; an errand boy and copy-
reader in the Inquirer printing office, 1825-28; a
jeweller's apprentice in Philadelphia, 1828-35, and
worked at that trade
in Boston, Mass., 18-
35-40. While in Bos-
ton he was a dili-
gent studeiit of poli-
tics. He was a demo-
crat, free-trader and
abolitionist by inheri-
tance, and wrote on
the subjects for the
public press. He re-
tvirned to Philadel-
phia in 1840, and in
1841 was admitted to
the bar. He was
deputy-prosecutor for
the city and county
of Philadelphia, 1845-46, and judge of the
court of common pleas, 1846-56. He then left
the bench and the Democratic party, helped to
organize the Republican party in Pennsylvania
and was an unsuccessful candidate for repre-
sentative in the 35th congress in 1856. He re-
sumed the practice of law; was a delegate to the
Republican national convention in 1860; was
elected a representative from the fourth district
of Pennsylvania in the 37th-51ot congresses, in-
clusive, 1861-90, his continuous service making
him the " Father of the House " for sevei'al ses-
sions. He was a radical protectionist, and his
anxiety for the protection of the iron interests of
his native state gave him the familiar name,
"Pig-Iron Kelley." During the civil war the
administration received his unqualified support.
He held important committee jiositions in the
house and was a master of the protectionist's
arguments in general debate. In 1843 he was
married to Harriet Tennent, of Baltimore, who
died in 1850. He was married in 1854 to Caroline
Bartram, daughter of Henry L. Bonsall and a
greats-granddaughter of John and Ann (Menden-
hall) Bartram, of Kingsessing, Pa. He is the
author of: Addresses to the Colored Department
of the House of Refuge (1850); Reasons for Aban-
doning the Theory of Free Trade and Adopting
the Principle of Protection to American Industry
(1872); Letters from Europe (1880); The New
South (1887), and numerous speeches and addre-
sses. He died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 9, 1880.
KELLEY, William Valentine, clergyman, was
born at Plainfield, N.J., Feb. 13, 1843; son of the
Rev. Benjamin and Eliza Kelley, and descended
from English Puritans, who landed at New-
buryport, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1635. He
