| Title |
Kelly, William J. |
| Date |
b. ca. 1838 |
| Description |
William J. Kelly, born ca. 1838 in Pennsylvania, worked as a lithographer in Philadelphia from ca. 1860 to the early 1870s.
Son of the Irish-born tailor James Kelly (b. ca. 1808), Kelly possibly worked with his brother and lithographer Thomas F.
(b. ca. 1847).
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Kelly lived with his family, including Thomas in Center City at 1542 Sansom Street from at least 1860 until the early 1870s.
As of 1870, another brother James (b. ca. 1853) worked in the field of art as well - as a portrait painter. In 1880, Kelly
continued to work as a printer and resided as a boarder in Burlington, N.J.
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During the early 1890s, a William J. Kelly, possibly this lithographer, was listed as a printer at 227 Jacoby Street and later
1145 Vine Street.
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| Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| References |
See Kelly, Thomas F. |
| Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
| Bibliographic citation |
Census 1860, 1870, 1880 |
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Groce & Wallace, 365 |
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Philadelphia Business and City Directories, 1860-1894 (intermittently) |
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WWWAA, 1817 |
