COURIER JOURNAL OBITUARY – 01/19/1920
John P. Kelly, 76 years old, figure in the Louisville Police Department periodically for fifty years, fell dead of apoplexy while waiting for a street car at Twenty-eighth and Madison Streets at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Kelly was going to his home 3638 West Chestnut Street, for lunch at the end of his watch at Fourth District Police Station. When he fell bystanders carried him into Schnepp's Grocery. John Kelly is best known as the man who owned and operated Kelly's Park, Twenty-eighth Street and Elliot Avenue, for a number of years at one time one of the most popular places of amusement in Kentucky. While operating the park he contracted for the first balloon ascension in Louisville. Another achievement in which he had a part was freeing turnpikes of Jefferson County. In 1897 he retired from business in Louisville and moved to a farm on the Cane Run Road in Jefferson County. The movement to do away with tollgates beginning about this time, Mr. Kelly organized the Free Turnpike League of Jefferson County. Free turnpike advocates throughout Kentucky were destroying tollgates, but when the radical element in this county suggested such methods, their leader dissuaded them pointing out that lawlessness would be ineffective. In the first election called the league and its followers were defeated, but in the second election two years afterward, travelers were freed from toll by a large plurality. Mr. Kelly was a candidate for the General Assembly from the Fifty-first District in 1902, but was defeated. His service in the Louisville Police Department dates back to April 1870. He was probably the oldest man in point of service in the department. He was a First Lieutenant when John G. Baxter was Mayor. Mr. Kelly was looking forward to April 1, at which time he intended to resign as patrolman and celebrate a "golden jubilee." Mr. Kelly was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1844. He emigrated to the United States when he was 13 years old, coming to Louisville at once with his parents. His death was unexpected. According to his son, E. C. Kelly, Mr. Kelly had often said that he had never been ill a day in his life. Mr. Kelly was a member of the Catholic Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Kelly; a daughter, Mrs. John Quinn, and four sons, W. C. Kelly, Thomas F. Kelly, E. C. Kelly and Theodore Kelly.
LOUISVILLE TIMES OBITUARY – 01/19/1920
KELLY – Suddenly, January 18, at 11 a.m., John P. Kelly. Funeral from his residence 3638 West Chestnut, Tuesday morning January 20, at 9 o'clock, and from the Church of Our Lady at 9:30 o'clock. Interment in St. Louis Cemetery.
John P. Kelly, 76 years old, figure in the Louisville Police Department periodically for fifty years, fell dead of apoplexy while waiting for a street car at Twenty-eighth and Madison Streets at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Kelly was going to his home 3638 West Chestnut Street, for lunch at the end of his watch at Fourth District Police Station. When he fell bystanders carried him into Schnepp's Grocery. John Kelly is best known as the man who owned and operated Kelly's Park, Twenty-eighth Street and Elliot Avenue, for a number of years at one time one of the most popular places of amusement in Kentucky. While operating the park he contracted for the first balloon ascension in Louisville. Another achievement in which he had a part was freeing turnpikes of Jefferson County. In 1897 he retired from business in Louisville and moved to a farm on the Cane Run Road in Jefferson County. The movement to do away with tollgates beginning about this time, Mr. Kelly organized the Free Turnpike League of Jefferson County. Free turnpike advocates throughout Kentucky were destroying tollgates, but when the radical element in this county suggested such methods, their leader dissuaded them pointing out that lawlessness would be ineffective. In the first election called the league and its followers were defeated, but in the second election two years afterward, travelers were freed from toll by a large plurality. Mr. Kelly was a candidate for the General Assembly from the Fifty-first District in 1902, but was defeated. His service in the Louisville Police Department dates back to April 1870. He was probably the oldest man in point of service in the department. He was a First Lieutenant when John G. Baxter was Mayor. Mr. Kelly was looking forward to April 1, at which time he intended to resign as patrolman and celebrate a "golden jubilee." Mr. Kelly was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1844. He emigrated to the United States when he was 13 years old, coming to Louisville at once with his parents. His death was unexpected. According to his son, E. C. Kelly, Mr. Kelly had often said that he had never been ill a day in his life. Mr. Kelly was a member of the Catholic Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Kelly; a daughter, Mrs. John Quinn, and four sons, W. C. Kelly, Thomas F. Kelly, E. C. Kelly and Theodore Kelly.
LOUISVILLE TIMES OBITUARY – 01/19/1920
KELLY – Suddenly, January 18, at 11 a.m., John P. Kelly. Funeral from his residence 3638 West Chestnut, Tuesday morning January 20, at 9 o'clock, and from the Church of Our Lady at 9:30 o'clock. Interment in St. Louis Cemetery.
COURIER JOURNAL OBITUARY – 01/19/1920
John P. Kelly, 76 years old, figure in the Louisville Police Department periodically for fifty years, fell dead of apoplexy while waiting for a street car at Twenty-eighth and Madison Streets at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Kelly was going to his home 3638 West Chestnut Street, for lunch at the end of his watch at Fourth District Police Station. When he fell bystanders carried him into Schnepp's Grocery. John Kelly is best known as the man who owned and operated Kelly's Park, Twenty-eighth Street and Elliot Avenue, for a number of years at one time one of the most popular places of amusement in Kentucky. While operating the park he contracted for the first balloon ascension in Louisville. Another achievement in which he had a part was freeing turnpikes of Jefferson County. In 1897 he retired from business in Louisville and moved to a farm on the Cane Run Road in Jefferson County. The movement to do away with tollgates beginning about this time, Mr. Kelly organized the Free Turnpike League of Jefferson County. Free turnpike advocates throughout Kentucky were destroying tollgates, but when the radical element in this county suggested such methods, their leader dissuaded them pointing out that lawlessness would be ineffective. In the first election called the league and its followers were defeated, but in the second election two years afterward, travelers were freed from toll by a large plurality. Mr. Kelly was a candidate for the General Assembly from the Fifty-first District in 1902, but was defeated. His service in the Louisville Police Department dates back to April 1870. He was probably the oldest man in point of service in the department. He was a First Lieutenant when John G. Baxter was Mayor. Mr. Kelly was looking forward to April 1, at which time he intended to resign as patrolman and celebrate a "golden jubilee." Mr. Kelly was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1844. He emigrated to the United States when he was 13 years old, coming to Louisville at once with his parents. His death was unexpected. According to his son, E. C. Kelly, Mr. Kelly had often said that he had never been ill a day in his life. Mr. Kelly was a member of the Catholic Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Kelly; a daughter, Mrs. John Quinn, and four sons, W. C. Kelly, Thomas F. Kelly, E. C. Kelly and Theodore Kelly.
LOUISVILLE TIMES OBITUARY – 01/19/1920
KELLY – Suddenly, January 18, at 11 a.m., John P. Kelly. Funeral from his residence 3638 West Chestnut, Tuesday morning January 20, at 9 o'clock, and from the Church of Our Lady at 9:30 o'clock. Interment in St. Louis Cemetery.
John P. Kelly, 76 years old, figure in the Louisville Police Department periodically for fifty years, fell dead of apoplexy while waiting for a street car at Twenty-eighth and Madison Streets at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. Kelly was going to his home 3638 West Chestnut Street, for lunch at the end of his watch at Fourth District Police Station. When he fell bystanders carried him into Schnepp's Grocery. John Kelly is best known as the man who owned and operated Kelly's Park, Twenty-eighth Street and Elliot Avenue, for a number of years at one time one of the most popular places of amusement in Kentucky. While operating the park he contracted for the first balloon ascension in Louisville. Another achievement in which he had a part was freeing turnpikes of Jefferson County. In 1897 he retired from business in Louisville and moved to a farm on the Cane Run Road in Jefferson County. The movement to do away with tollgates beginning about this time, Mr. Kelly organized the Free Turnpike League of Jefferson County. Free turnpike advocates throughout Kentucky were destroying tollgates, but when the radical element in this county suggested such methods, their leader dissuaded them pointing out that lawlessness would be ineffective. In the first election called the league and its followers were defeated, but in the second election two years afterward, travelers were freed from toll by a large plurality. Mr. Kelly was a candidate for the General Assembly from the Fifty-first District in 1902, but was defeated. His service in the Louisville Police Department dates back to April 1870. He was probably the oldest man in point of service in the department. He was a First Lieutenant when John G. Baxter was Mayor. Mr. Kelly was looking forward to April 1, at which time he intended to resign as patrolman and celebrate a "golden jubilee." Mr. Kelly was born in County Galway, Ireland, in 1844. He emigrated to the United States when he was 13 years old, coming to Louisville at once with his parents. His death was unexpected. According to his son, E. C. Kelly, Mr. Kelly had often said that he had never been ill a day in his life. Mr. Kelly was a member of the Catholic Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Rose Kelly; a daughter, Mrs. John Quinn, and four sons, W. C. Kelly, Thomas F. Kelly, E. C. Kelly and Theodore Kelly.
LOUISVILLE TIMES OBITUARY – 01/19/1920
KELLY – Suddenly, January 18, at 11 a.m., John P. Kelly. Funeral from his residence 3638 West Chestnut, Tuesday morning January 20, at 9 o'clock, and from the Church of Our Lady at 9:30 o'clock. Interment in St. Louis Cemetery.
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