Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1882-03-10
/. He was born in Gilmantop

gon. He was born in Gilmanton,
New Hampshire, in 1889. In 1927
then teacher of a public school in
Boston, he had become zealously
interested in the territory west of
the Rocky mountains. He addressed
a memorial 10 Congress of the Uni;
ed States urging " the foundin. OF
new Republic Of civil all reli :ioaI
freedom on TIL shores of the Pacific
ocean, and extending the blessings
of Christianity to tho Indian tribes
Until 1928 8 his coloniziDg efforts
were confined TO occurring, n, nori-
aIizing Safe Legislatures AMI Con
Sress, and addressing .he people
through the public journals. He
made several abortive efforts to or
ganize colony to proceed over nnl
to the territory. From 1920 to
1881 he devoted his attention to pro-
curing charter from the Massa-
chusetts Legislature. In this lie
succeeded at the session of 1S30-31
by the incorporation of The Socie-
ty for encouraging the settlement of
the Oregon Territory" Under its
auspices large number enrolled to
90 to Oregon; two only, John Ball
and Calvin Tibbetts. who accom-
panied Capt. Nathaniel J. Wyeth, Of
Cambridge, NJ lss, OF It's first cxpe-
dition, ever reached Oregon.
Kelly then i'll ide an ineff .ctual
effort TO send party by sea to
Puget Sound. With small party
he went to the city of Mexico RIA
Vera Cruz, AMI thence to California.
His party having abun Toned him in
Mexico, with a single companion he
overlook part of the trapping party
of the Hundon Bay Company, about
200 miles from San Francisco. re-
turning to Font Vancouver. Join
ing them, in few days the remain
der of the party were overtaken,
with whom was Ewing Young. As
before stated, Gov Figueroa had
not excepted any of the party in his
letter to DR.. Mclaughlin.
The treatment which Ewing Young
received upon his arrival at Fort
Vancouver has been related. DIR.
Mclaughlin says: 81 treated oil of
the party in the same manner as
Young, except Kellv, who was very
sick. Out of humanity I placed him
in house, and attended on him till
he left in 1896, when gave him q
passage TO Olhoo in one of the Co. s
vessels. On his return to the States
he published q narrative of his voy-
ages, in which, instead of being
grateful for the kindness shown him,
he abused me and falsely stated that
was SO alarmed with the dread
that he would destroy the company's
trade that had kept II consta !
watch over him. This was published
in report made by him to the U..i-
ted States Congress "
Kelly having returned to Massa.
chusetts, devoted much time to pub
fishing matter relating to climate,
soil and advantages of Oregon.
Session after session, he labored to
secure large grant of land in Ore
gon in remuneration of his services
and in behalf of the colony, but
failed. Some charitable friend, in o
notice of his death, Which occurred
on the Goth of Dec. 1879, thus refers
to his latter life: " Doomed and
disappointed, poor anil needy, un-
able to stem the advers tide. he be-
came SO irritable as to drive his wife
and family from him Having a
small house and q little lend, heavi-
ly mortgaeed, he has lived for more
than 20 years a hermit's life brood
ing over his troubles. His mind
partially gave way, and for years, in
every little trial even down to his
last hours, he traced through every
unfriendly act or annoyance, the
prosecutions of the Hudson's Bay
Company. through their emissaries.
who, he believed, still followed him
with relentless hostility, because Of
his early efforts to COLOMBO Oregon.
No efforts of friends or relative could
induce him to leave his hermitage on
the sile of the hill facing the COM
mon q. Three Rivers, though they
offered him q good homo and the
comforts OF life.'
To be continued.