ELMER ANDREW KELL, M. D.

ELMER ANDREW KELL, M. D.
Dr. Elmer Andrew Kell, devoting his life to the practice of medicine and surgery in Rawlins, was born in Loysville, Perry county, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1879, a son of the late Peter G. Kell, a native of the Keystone state and a representative of one of its old families that was established there at the time that William Penn founded his colony in the new world. The American ancestor of the Kell family was John Kell, who came from the Bavarian Palatinate, Germany, then an independent principality, at which time Frederick the Fifth was elector. John Kell came to America about the year 1700 and settled on the Delaware near Upland, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was an agriculturist, devoting his life to general farming pursuits there. Among his descendants were those who participated in the War of 1812. Peter G. Kell was reared and educated in Loysville, Perry county, Pennsylvania, and in young manhood learned the cabinetmaker’s trade, while later he became a building contractor, which business he successfully followed, being accorded a very liberal patronage. He remained a resident of Loysville until his death, which occurred January 6, 1910, when he was sixty-four years of age. In politics he was a stanch republican and took an active part in promoting the success of his party and it upholding all matters of civic virtue and of civic pride, yet he would never consent to accept office himself. He married Sarah Ellen Long, a native of Pennsylvania and a descendant of one of the old families of that state, of German lineage. She now makes her home at Newport, in Perry county, Pennsylvania, living with a daughter. She became the mother of four children, all of whom survive, namely: Harry H., who is a merchant of Petersburg, Huntington county, Pennsylvania; Elmer Andrew; Robert L., a civil engineer by profession and a resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Mary L., the wife of David S. Fry, whose home is in Newport, Pennsylvania. Elmer A. Kell was educated in the public schools of Loysville and in the Tressler Orphans’ Home at that place, while later he became a student in the Bloomfield Academy at Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895. Following his graduation he taught one term of school in Perry county and later, having determined to make the practice of medicine his life work, he entered the Baltimore Medical College at Baltimore, Maryland. and was there graduated in 1900, winning the M. D. degree. He afterward served for one year as interne in the Maryland General Hospital at Baltimore and gained that broad and valuable experience which only hospital practice can give. On the expiration of that period he entered upon the private practice of medicine as a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the position of assistant medical examiner in the relief department at Baltimore and he remained with the Pennsylvania road until 1910, when he located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he opened an office. He remained in active practice there until May, 1915, when on account of his wife’s health he removed to the west. It was November of that year that he arrived in Wyoming, taking up his abode in Rawlins, where he opened an office and has since been continuously engaged in practice, meeting with gratifying success as the years have gone on. He is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and is a fellow of the American Medical Association. On the 20th of January, 1904, Dr. Kell was united in marriage in Littletown, Adams county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Eva H. Colehouse, a native of the Keystone state and a representative of one of its old families of German lineage. She is a daughter of William H. and Rebecca (Mehring) Colehouse, both of whom are living. Dr. and Mrs. Kell have become parents of a son, Elmer Andrew, Jr., who was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1906. Dr. Kell holds membership in Pottstown Lodge, No. 814, B. P. 0. E., and in the Masonic blue lodge at Columbia, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of Garfield Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., at Rawlins, and Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 2, K. T., and he has also become identified with Korein Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His religious faith is indicated in his membership in the Presbyterian church, to the teachings of which he is most loyal. His has been an honorable and upright career, marked by continuous progress, and he is a self-made man in the highest and best sense of the term and in his practice is actuated by a conscientious regard for the obligations that devolve upon him.

Dr. Elmer Andrew Kell, devoting his life to the practice of medicine and surgery in Rawlins, was born in Loysville, Perry county, Pennsylvania, January 20, 1879, a son of the late Peter G. Kell, a native of the Keystone state and a representative of one of its old families that was established there at the time that William Penn founded his colony in the new world. The American ancestor of the Kell family was John Kell, who came from the Bavarian Palatinate, Germany, then an independent principality, at which time Frederick the Fifth was elector. John Kell came to America about the year 1700 and settled on the Delaware near Upland, in Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was an agriculturist, devoting his life to general farming pursuits there. Among his descendants were those who participated in the War of 1812. Peter G. Kell was reared and educated in Loysville, Perry county, Pennsylvania, and in young manhood learned the cabinetmaker’s trade, while later he became a building contractor, which business he successfully followed, being accorded a very liberal patronage. He remained a resident of Loysville until his death, which occurred January 6, 1910, when he was sixty-four years of age. In politics he was a stanch republican and took an active part in promoting the success of his party and it upholding all matters of civic virtue and of civic pride, yet he would never consent to accept office himself. He married Sarah Ellen Long, a native of Pennsylvania and a descendant of one of the old families of that state, of German lineage. She now makes her home at Newport, in Perry county, Pennsylvania, living with a daughter. She became the mother of four children, all of whom survive, namely: Harry H., who is a merchant of Petersburg, Huntington county, Pennsylvania; Elmer Andrew; Robert L., a civil engineer by profession and a resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Mary L., the wife of David S. Fry, whose home is in Newport, Pennsylvania.
Elmer A. Kell was educated in the public schools of Loysville and in the Tressler Orphans’ Home at that place, while later he became a student in the Bloomfield Academy at Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated with the class of 1895. Following his graduation he taught one term of school in Perry county and later, having determined to make the practice of medicine his life work, he entered the Baltimore Medical College at Baltimore, Maryland. and was there graduated in 1900, winning the M. D. degree. He afterward served for one year as interne in the Maryland General Hospital at Baltimore and gained that broad and valuable experience which only hospital practice can give. On the expiration of that period he entered upon the private practice of medicine as a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the position of assistant medical examiner in the relief department at Baltimore and he remained with the Pennsylvania road until 1910, when he located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he opened an office. He remained in active practice there until May, 1915, when on account of his wife’s health he removed to the west. It was November of that year that he arrived in Wyoming, taking up his abode in Rawlins, where he opened an office and has since been continuously engaged in practice, meeting with gratifying success as the years have gone on. He is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society and is a fellow of the American Medical Association.
On the 20th of January, 1904, Dr. Kell was united in marriage in Littletown, Adams county, Pennsylvania, to Miss Eva H. Colehouse, a native of the Keystone state and a representative of one of its old families of German lineage. She is a daughter of William H. and Rebecca (Mehring) Colehouse, both of whom are living. Dr. and Mrs. Kell have become parents of a son, Elmer Andrew, Jr., who was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 11, 1906.
Dr. Kell holds membership in Pottstown Lodge, No. 814, B. P. 0. E., and in the Masonic blue lodge at Columbia, Pennsylvania. He is also a member of Garfield Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M., at Rawlins, and Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 2, K. T., and he has also become identified with Korein Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His religious faith is indicated in his membership in the Presbyterian church, to the teachings of which he is most loyal. His has been an honorable and upright career, marked by continuous progress, and he is a self-made man in the highest and best sense of the term and in his practice is actuated by a conscientious regard for the obligations that devolve upon him.