It took many staff and volunteers to lay the foundation for one of the best Genealogical Research Facilities in Indiana. We pay tribute to those who were there to develop the department. Meet our past staff members. I have taught classes in basic genealogy. Special Interests include the orphan train which came to Kokomo.
Ancestral background includes English and German ancestors.
My husband's family settled here at the turn of the century. Leonard Benjamin Felkey retired from the Library at the end of 1995. Beginning in 1990, when the Genealogy and Local History Department moved to the lower level, became fully staffed and was opened during full library hours, Leonard served as coordinator until his retirement. He is the author of Books Along the Wildcat . Leonard's paternal lines are from Hungaria, Western PA, and Brownsville.