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1820, and settled in Boston, Mass., as master of a grammar school. He was emplo3'ed by a railroad company in Maine as a surveyor, and also planned a canal to be built from Boston to the Connecti- cut river and a railroad from the city of Mexico to Vera Cruz, He projected a settlement west of the Rocky Mountains in 1817, and in 1829 procured from the Massachusetts legislature an act of in- corporation of the " American Society for En- couraging the Settlement of Oregon Territory." He organized several jjarties for the settlement of this territory in 1831, one of which, a party of Americans from Monterey, Mexico, succeeded in reaching Oregon, where they were promptly ex- pelled by the Hudson Bay company, and Mr. Kelley returned to Boston and abandoned all further colonization projects. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1820. He is the author of: GeograjiMcal Memoir of Oregon, the first map of that territory and a manual for the guidance of emigrants (1830); A History of the Settlement of Oregon and of the Interior of Upper California and of Persecutions and Afflictions of J'orty Years' Continuance, endured by the Author (1868). He died in Palmer, Mass., Jan. 17, 1874.

KELLEY, James Douglas Jerrold, naval officer, was born in New York city, Dec. 25, 1847. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval academy by President Lincoln, Oct. 3, 1864, and was gradu- ated in 1868. He was promoted ensign, April 19, 1869; master, July 12, 1870; lieutenant, Aug. 13, 1872; lieutenant-commander, June 27, 1893; and commander in 1899. He was prize essayist, and was awarded a gold medal at the U.S. Naval institute in 1881; was judge advocate of the Kearsarge court of inquiry, 1897; a member and chairman of the board of auxiliary vessels, 1898; was appointed inspector of merchant ves- sels, New Y'ork citj'. May 13, 1897; and senior aide to Rear- Admiral Philip, commandant at the Brooklyn navy yard, in 1898. He was elected an associate member of the Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers. He is the author of: The Question of Ships (1884); American Yachts (1884); A Desperate Chance (1886); Our Navy, its Growth and Achievements (1894); TJie Ship's Company, and Other Sea People (1896); Tlie Navy of the United States, 1S75-1S99 (1899); editor of Modern Ships of War (1888); co-author with Stanley Lane Poole of The Story of the Bar- bary Corsairs (1890); and a contributor of im- portant professional articles to various periodi- cals.

KELLEY, William Darrah, representative, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 1814; son of David and Hannah (Darrah) Kelley, and grandson of John Kelley, of Salem, N.J., an officer in the army of General Wasliington. His ancestors were Irish and Frencli Huguenots on

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his father's side and English on his mother's side. His father died when he was a mere lad, and he was at school until 1825; an errand boy and copy- reader in the Inquirer printing office, 1825-28; a jeweller's apprentice in Philadelphia, 1828-35, and worked at that trade in Boston, Mass., 18- 35-40. While in Bos- ton he was a dili- gent studeiit of poli- tics. He was a demo- crat, free-trader and abolitionist by inheri- tance, and wrote on the subjects for the public press. He re- tvirned to Philadel- phia in 1840, and in 1841 was admitted to the bar. He was deputy-prosecutor for the city and county of Philadelphia, 1845-46, and judge of the court of common pleas, 1846-56. He then left the bench and the Democratic party, helped to organize the Republican party in Pennsylvania and was an unsuccessful candidate for repre- sentative in the 35th congress in 1856. He re- sumed the practice of law; was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1860; was elected a representative from the fourth district of Pennsylvania in the 37th-51ot congresses, in- clusive, 1861-90, his continuous service making him the " Father of the House " for sevei'al ses- sions. He was a radical protectionist, and his anxiety for the protection of the iron interests of his native state gave him the familiar name, "Pig-Iron Kelley." During the civil war the administration received his unqualified support. He held important committee jiositions in the house and was a master of the protectionist's arguments in general debate. In 1843 he was married to Harriet Tennent, of Baltimore, who died in 1850. He was married in 1854 to Caroline Bartram, daughter of Henry L. Bonsall and a greats-granddaughter of John and Ann (Menden- hall) Bartram, of Kingsessing, Pa. He is the author of: Addresses to the Colored Department of the House of Refuge (1850); Reasons for Aban- doning the Theory of Free Trade and Adopting the Principle of Protection to American Industry (1872); Letters from Europe (1880); The New South (1887), and numerous speeches and addre- sses. He died in Washington, D.C., Jan. 9, 1880. KELLEY, William Valentine, clergyman, was born at Plainfield, N.J., Feb. 13, 1843; son of the Rev. Benjamin and Eliza Kelley, and descended from English Puritans, who landed at New- buryport, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1635. He