"Thomas Kelley...was born at Flint, Michigan, October 16, 1870. His father, Patrick Kelley, was born in County Clare, Ireland and married there Martha Carey. Prior to the Civil war Patrick Kelley broughr his family to the United States, and spent his active life as a brick and cement contractor at Flint, Michigan, moving to that city from Mew York State. He died at Flitn in 1899, when past sixty years of age. his widow is stil living, a resident of Chicago...His children were: Sarah, who became the wife of Tom Margison and died at Elkhart, Indiana; Martha, who became the wife of Eugene Henderson, of Tuscola County, Michigan; Thomas; Selma, wife of James Hugan [sic], of Chicago; and Lizzie, Mrs. Jack Cargill. Thomas Kelly lived at Flint to the age of twenty...Leaving Michigan in 1890, he went to Chciago, worked at his [cigarmaking] trade several months, and successively made cigars at St. Louis, at Piqua, Ohio, at Boston, Massachusetts, Nashua, New Hampshire, and thence north through Montreal and Toronto. Returning to Michigan, he worked at Tecumsh, and his last occupation at rolling cigars was in Minneapolis. In May, 1895, he came to Montana, where his did his first work as a section hand at Culbertson. [He then did ranchwork around the state.] A few years later he identified himself with Plentywood, which at that time was just beginning to take on life as a town. He built one of the first business houses on the townsite, and entered the retail liquor business, which he continued until state wide prohibition became effective. Mr. Kelley took advantage of the opportunities to acquire a farm by entering public land...The home for himself and wife was a frame shack of two rooms...After securing title he left the farm as a place of residence, but still owns it...He joined in the movement for the telephone system, the Farmers Store, the creamery, and the drug store, taking stock in all those enterprises...[H]is family are communicants of the Catholic Church. Mr. Kelley found his wife while she was a homesteader in the Plentywood locality. her maiden was Johanna Armstrong. Mrs. Kelley was born at Anoka, Minnestoa, in 1872, the daughter of William T. and Sarah (Farrington) Armstrong, the former still living and at the Kelley home. Mrs. Kelley has one sister, Mrs. Arthur Charlesworth. Mr. and Mrs. Kelley were married at Glasgow, Montana, June 19, 1911. They have an adopted son, Gerald." pp.1053-54 Montana, its story and biography : a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood Chicago: American Historical Society, 1921