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THOMAS P. KELLEY, lumberman, P. O. Elmwood, Pierce county, is a son of Joseph
Kelley, who was born in 1811 in Haddam, Conn., and married Lucina Pelton, of
Ashtabula county, Ohioo.  Six children were born to them, as follows:  Tryon
B., who lives in Plumas county, Cal.; Sarah (Mrs. Healy), who lives in 
Rochester, Wis.; Walter, who lives in Greene county, Ill,; Jane A. (Mrs.
Adams), who lives in River Falls, Wis.; John W., who lives in Woodbury
county, Iowa, and Thomas P.  The latter came to Wisconsin in 1845 from 
Ohio, and settled in Milwaukee, where he lived four years, then moved to 
Racine, November 7, 1861, enlisted in the Seventh Wisconsin battery, and
was taken prisoner at Humboldt, Tenn., by General Forrest's cavalry.  He 
was paroled and staid in the parol camp at St. Louis nine months, then was
exchanged and served until the close of the war.  He then came to Pierce
county, Wis., and in May, 1867, took a homestead in the present township of
Spring Lake, then a wilderness, where there were only a few settlers.  He
found Asa Curtis there, an old pioneer, who came from Oneida county, N. Y.,
in the early fifties and who had worked at lumbering for Carson & Rand and
Ole Gardner, and who was about the first settler in the township.  Several 
years after, when the township was organized, the last named was elected
treasurer and Mr. Kelley was elected clerk.  Since that time our subject
has always taken an active and prominent part in all things for the benefit
of the township.  In 1871 he married Frances M., daughter of James and 
Elizabeth Webb, and she has borne him five children, namely: Isabella, who
died in infancy; Milton W., Arthur H., Elizabeth L. and Alice A., the four
latter living and at home.  In politics Mr. Kelley has always been a 
republican.

--Taken from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin Including A General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley;
Ancestral Records fo Leading Families; Biographies of Representative Citizens,
Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men.  Edited by George Forrester.
Published in Chicago, Illinois by A. Warner. Publisher. 1891-2. Pages 594-595