THOMAS KELLEY, retired farmer, Fostoria, was born in Huntingdon County, Penn., April 6, 1800, son of Charles and Jemima (Crownover) Kelley, who settled on a farm four miles from Wooster, Ohio, in 1811. Our subject, from eleven years of age was reared in Wooster, and was there educated. In 1831 he located in Washington Township, Hancock County (had the honor of naming the township), and entered 160 acres of land. which he cleared and improved, and where he lived up to 1856, when he sold his farm and moved to Fremont, Ohio, residing there until 1866, when he came to Fostoria. He was twice married, first in July, 1823, to Catherine, daughter of John Lora, of Wayne County, Ohio, by whom he had seven children: John (deceased), Amanda (wife of Ambrose Corey), Sydna I. (wife of Philip Faulhaber), Sarah (wife of Thaddeus Ball), Minerva (wife of Christian German), Charles and Albert. Mr. Kelley was married on second occasion in Fremont, Ohio, in 1862, to Mrs. Emily G. Boren, widow of Levi E. Boren and daughter of James and Hettie (Culbertson) Prebles. Mr. Kelley is a prominent citizen of Fostoria. In politics he has always been a stanch Democrat, casting his first vote for Andrew Jackson.
THOMAS KELLEY, retired farmer, Fostoria, was born in Huntingdon County, Penn., April 6, 1800, son of Charles and Jemima (Crownover) Kelley, who settled on a farm four miles from Wooster, Ohio, in 1811. Our subject, from eleven years of age was reared in Wooster, and was there educated. In 1831 he located in Washington Township, Hancock County (had the honor of naming the township), and entered 160 acres of land. which he cleared and improved, and where he lived up to 1856, when he sold his farm and moved to Fremont, Ohio, residing there until 1866, when he came to Fostoria. He was twice married, first in July, 1823, to Catherine, daughter of John Lora, of Wayne County, Ohio, by whom he had seven children: John (deceased), Amanda (wife of Ambrose Corey), Sydna I. (wife of Philip Faulhaber), Sarah (wife of Thaddeus Ball), Minerva (wife of Christian German), Charles and Albert. Mr. Kelley was married on second occasion in Fremont, Ohio, in 1862, to Mrs. Emily G. Boren, widow of Levi E. Boren and daughter of James and Hettie (Culbertson) Prebles. Mr. Kelley is a prominent citizen of Fostoria. In politics he has always been a stanch Democrat, casting his first vote for Andrew Jackson.
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