BIOGRAPHY: John P. KELLEY, Walnut, Beale Twp, Juniata Co., PA
  
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  The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, 
  Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, 
  Pennsylvania.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume II, 
  Page 826.
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    JOHN P. KELLEY, Walnut, Beale township, Juniata county, Pa., was
  born at Waterloo, Juniata county, Pa., October 14, 1819. His father,
  William C. Kelley, son of John Kelley, attended school in Mifflin
  county, and was reared a farmer. When a young man he opened a general
  store at Waterloo which he conducted for several years, and later took
  charge of one half of the homestead farm of 150 acres, which he
  occupied until his death in 1828. He married Sarah, daughter of John
  Patterson, of Beale township. Their children are: John P.; James, a
  physician, of Patterson, Pa.; Isabella (Mrs. Nevin Pomeroy),
  Chambersburg, Pa.; Rebecca (Mrs. John M. Pomeroy), Chambersburg, Pa.;
  and two children who died in infancy. Mr. Kelley was Presbyterian and
  an old line Whig. His wife died at Academia, Pa., in 1835.
    John P. Kelley attended subscription schools and the Tuscarora
  Academy. After the death of this father he worked on the farm, and
  was later a clerk in the store of his uncle, John Patterson, at
  Academia, Pa., until 1850. He then purchased and improved the
  McAllister farm of 234 acres, and was for the remainder of his life
  engaged in general farming and raising live stock. Mr. Kelly was
  married in Mifflintown, Pa., to Elizabeth Fry, a native of Delaware
  township. Their children are: William C.; John P.; Edward D.;
  Preston, a silver miner of Colorado; Emma; James, died young; and one
  that died in infancy unnamed.
    Mr. Kelley votes the Democratic ticket. He was an overseer of the
  poor, and had served as tax collector, and in other minor offices. He
  is a member of St. Paulis Lutheran church, has been deacon and elder,
  and was the first superintendent of the Sunday-school.