- HENRY SYLVESTER KELSEY, A.M., [Evansville,
N.Y.], son of Sylvester and Polly (GATES)
- KELSEY, was born at LeRoy, N.Y.,
Dec. 5, 1830; fitted for college at Williston Seminary, Easthampton.
Teacher, Gallipolis, O., '55-'56; East Windsor T. I., '56-'57;
tutor in Mathematics, Amherst Coll., '57-'60; Professor of Mathematics
and Physics, Beloit Coll., '60-'63; ordained at Granby, Oct.
28, 1863, and p., '63-'66; p., First church, Rockville, Ct.,
'66-'68; home missionary, Mobile, Ala., '68-'69; teacher, Geneva,
N.Y., '69-'70; p., Holliston, '70-'73; p., Woburn, '73-'76; p.,
College St. church, New Haven, Ct., since '77; traveled in Europe
in 1880. Author of Sermons in Monday Club Series. Married, (1)
Aug. 8, 1861, Harriet A., dau. of Philip Schuyler BEEBE, of Litchfield,
Ct., who died Aug. 3, 1865; (2) Oct. 16, 1867, Mrs. Eliza Leavitt
FISKE, dau. of Rev. Aaron FOSTER, of East Charlemont. One child.
P.O. address, 547 Chapel St., Hartford, Ct. [Alumnus of
Amherst College, 1855]
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- [Taken from "Biographical Record of the Alumni of
Amherst College During Its First Half Century, 1821-1871"
edited by W. L. Montague; (c)1883 J. E. Williams, Amherst, MA,
p. 294]
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