Biographical Sketch of Capt. H. A. Kelling, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Capt. H. A. Kelling, engineer for the New Haven Roller Mills, was born
in Germany in 1838, and is a son of Frederick Kelling, who came to the
United States when our subject was about six years of age, and located
twelve miles southeast of New Haven, Mo., where he died two years af-
ter.  He served in the Prussian arnada.  The mother died in her native 
country.  After the death of his father young Kelling lived with a step
brother until eighteen years of age, receiving very meager educational
advantages, his schooling being limited to a few months.  He then went
to Sweetwater, Ill. and worked in a brickyard one season, going thence
to St. Louis, where he remained several years engaged in the same busi-
ness.  He returned to New Haven about the time of the breaking up of 
the late war, enlisted in the militia and served three months, after
which he entered the reserve corps, remaining there six months.  In
April, 1862, he joined Company E, First Missouri State Volunteer In-
fantry, for three years, and operated mostly in Southeast Missouri 
until the close of the war without any serious result.  He enlisted in
the Eighth corps, was afterward made fifth sergeant, late lieutenant 
and then captain, in which capacity he served one and a half years. He 
was discharged at St. Louis, April 15, 1865.  Capt. Kelling then turn-
ed his attention to engineering on the Yellowstone, Missouri and Miss-
issippi River steamers, and this has been his leading business ever
since.  He was married February 24, 1871, to Miss Missouri C. Trail,
youngest daughter of Baswell and Anna J. Trail, born in Moniteau Co.,
Mo.  The results of this marriage were the birth of four children:
Charley, Luther, Antoine and Oscar.  Capt. Kelling is a Republican in
politics, and cast his first presidential vote for A. Lincoln in 1860.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the G. A. R.  Mrs. Kell-
ing is a member of the Baptist Church.

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