Transcription contributed by Leah L. Furnas 18 April 2005

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HENRY B. KELLEY, South Lebanon, of the firm of Kelley & Dunham, packers and driers of sugar corn. Mr. Kelley was born in New York in 1844; his early life was passed in the nurseries of Rochester, in his native State, one of which he had charge when only 17 years old. The rudiments of his education were received in the common schools, which was afterward quite fully developed in higher institutions of learning. In 1871, he came to Ohio and located at Foster’s Crossing, in Warren Co., where he began drying sweet corn. The following year he located at his present site. Mr. W. H. Poor and he were the discoverers and originators of their new process of drying corn. He was married in Ohio, in 1867, to Rosa, daughter of Orson Murray, who has borne him children as follows-Cannie, Carlos, Horace and George.