Cumberland County, Maine - Daniel T. Kelley
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Biography
Daniel T. Kelley
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 553-554


Daniel T. Kelley, manufacturer and dealer in agricultural implements in
Portland, was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, three weeks before the death of
his father, Thomas Kelley. When he was but eight years of age, his widowed
mother emigrated to this country, living for a while in Montreal, but coming to
Portland in 1852. Daniel T. completed his education in the public schools of
this city, and at the age of fourteen years began to learn the trade of a
founder. After serving his apprenticeship, he worked in different places, at
length settling down as a journeyman for the Portland Company.

Having labored industriously for some years, by judicious economy accumulating
some money, Mr. Kelley started in business on his own account, operating a
foundry only for a few years. He subsequently added the manufacture of ploughs,
cultivators, and mowing machines, for some fifteen years making the Kelley
mower, which had a large local sale. The firm, which now includes Mr. Kelley's
two elder sons as well as himself, has recently begun the manufacture of a new
and improved machine, the National, which has all the latest features, it having
proved so successful in the past summer that the manufacture will be continued
during the next season on a much more extended scale. This enterprising firm
deals in farming tools, implements, and machinery of all kinds, having a large
warehouse three stories in height with a frontage of one hundred and sixty feet,
the foundry, seventy by one hundred and ten feet, being in the rear. Mr. Kelley
is the only manufacturer of mowing machines in the State, and in the busy season
he gives employment to thirty-five or forty men. On Cross Street he has another
shop, where he does custom foundry work only, his increasing business having
necessitated the erection of this factory.

On November 29, 1866, Mr. Kelley was united in marriage with Ellen L. Shay, of
Newburyport, Mass. This union has been hallowed by the birth of nine children,
six of whom are living, namely: James A. and George F., who are in partnership
with their father, the firm name being Daniel T. Kelley & Sons; Susie A., wife
of John A. McGowan; Ellen G.; Mary J.; and John William. For sixteen years Mr.
and Mrs. Kelley have resided at 38 Pleasant Street, Deering, a charming
locality. Both he and his wife are members of the Cathedral Parish. James A.
Kelley married Miss Josephine Best, who has borne him one child, Daniel James.
George F. Kelley married Miss Georgia Andrews; and they have one child, Phyllis
P.