San Francisco County
Biographies
JOSEPH P. KELLY
JOSEPH P. KELLY, a prominent young lawyer of San
Francisco was born in this city in 1861. His father,
Michael Joseph Kelly, was a native of Ireland
and during his early boyhood ran away from home and came to this country. In New
York, he served an apprenticeship to the
carriage-making trade, and at the age of eighteen was conducting a large
business there of which he was sole proprietor. He sent for his parents and
brought them to this country.
He
was married in New York, and in 1860 came to San
Francisco, where he engaged in carriage manufacturing
and continued in this business many years. In 1875 he engaged in contracting
and stone work; had the contract for grading Harrison and School streets, built
the children’s Play House at Golden Gate
Park, and also had large contracts
for building sewers, employing hundreds of men. He had a Government contract on
Mare Island
at the time of his death, which occurred October 28, 1889. During his active
and useful life he accumulated a large estate, which was left to his widow and
five children, two sons and three daughters.
Joseph
P. Kelly received his education at St. Ignatius
College. He entered the University and graduated
in the law department with the class of 1883, after which he was admitted to
the bar. Since that time he has been successfully engaged in the practice of
his Profession, representing Eastern railroad companies and local corporations,
also doing a large probate business. He was appointed referee in the Blythe estate
for settlement of accounts of the late Phil A. Roach. Mr. Kelly is one of the
youngest attorneys now practicing before the United States Supreme Court.
Transcribed by Kim Buck.
Source: "The Bay of San
Francisco," Vol. 2, Pages
610-11, Lewis Publishing
Co, 1892.
© 2006 Kim Buck.
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