Lake County Biographies

JOHN KELSEY

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Was born in Kentucky, July 17, 1819.  At the age of eighteen he went to 
Tennessee, where he engaged as apprentice to the gunsmith trade for four years.  
We next find him in Ray County, Missouri, where gunsmithing was followed until 
1867, when he was elected to the position of County Treasurer, which office he 
held for six years.  In 1873 he came to California, and to Lake County, settling 
in Kelseyville, where he still continues to reside.  Mr. Kelsey married, in 
1839, Miss Emma Jones, a native of Tennessee.  Their children are, William, 
Alvin, Solomon and Linnia A.
 
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California, publ. 1881 � pg. 257