California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


JOHN NELSON KELLY.  The son of Alfred Moore and Etta Valeria Donnell Kelly, was born in Jefferson 
County, Ohio, October 3, 1852, where he resided until 1871, receiving the principal part of his 
education in that State, afterwards graduating from the high school of Richmond, Ohio. In September 
of the above mentioned year he moved to Polk County, Iowa, remaining in that State until February 
20, 1879, when he started overland for California, where he arrived February 29th of the same year. 
He had previously visited the State for a period of six months. He went direct to Chiles Valley and 
engaged in general farming and herding. Mr. Kelly is still unmarried.