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From A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902)
OLIVER WARREN KELLY.
The pioneers of a country, the founders of a business, the originators of any undertaking that will promote welfare or advance the educational, social and moral interests of a community deserve the gratitude of.
the community. The name of Kelly is one that figures prominently on the pages of the. industrial and commercial history of Springfield, and the family finds a worthy and honored representative in Oliver Warren Kelly, who is the vice-president of the O. S. Kelly Company, manufacturers of piano plates and road rollers. He is active in controlling a business of great magnitude and one which by furnishing employment to hundreds of men, is of great value to the city as well as to the individual stockholders.
Mr. Kelly was born in Springfield December 11, 1851, and is the elder of the twe sons of Oliver S. and Ruth Ann (Peck) Kelly. At the usual age he entered the pub-. lie schools of his native city and after completing a course here determined to master the German language. With a desire of acquiring a practical and thorough knowledge of this he went abroad, sailing from New York on the 2d of September, 1869, He located first at Weinheim, Baden, where he continued his studies of the German language until he could speak and write sufficiently to enter upon the pursuit of a college course. After completing his studies there he went when eighteen years of age.
to Zurich, Switzerland, during the Easter
As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Oliver Warren Kelly: Oliver S. Kelly (b. 1824)
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