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GEORGIA AND GEORGIANS 2839^of unique and valuable relics from all parts of the world. He lias a finecollection also of rifles and pistols, and the many trophies of the fields andstreams which ornament his den give evidence of his skill as an artist of thegun and rod.On January 17, 1900, Doctor Taylor was married to Miss Mabel E. Dibble,daughter of George "W. Dibble, of New York City, where she died November29 1902, leaving two daughters: Susie Hathaway, born in November, 1901,and Mabel EUsworth, born in 1902, both at New York City, and both nowattending a girls' school at Savannah. Doctor Taylor was again married,October 30, 1909, being united at Nashville, Tennessee, with Miss LouiseMeeks, daughter of Thomas Meeks and a member of a well known familyof Nashville, and to this union there has been born one daughter, ElizabethBlaekwell, born at Savannah, in July, 1914. Doctor and Mrs. Taylor occupytheir beautiful home at No. 420 Bull Street, Savannah.CHARLES HABEISON KELLEY. When Charles Harrison Kelley came toAtlanta thirty years ago he was absolutely without material'resources. As amatter of fact, he was in debt to the amount of $200. Today he is presidentof the wholesale grocery firm of Kelley Brothers, doing an annual businessof about a million and a quarter. His advance in the business world has beenconsistent and well deserved, and his standing'in the City of Atlanta is onethat reflects much credit upon his daily life.Mr". Kelley is one of Georgia's native sons, born in Coweta County onMarch 13, 1859, and he is the son of William Harrison Kelley, a Georgiafarmer of Coweta County, and for many years justice of the peace for histown. He was born in 1812 in Georgia and died in the place that had longbeen his home in the year 1886. William Harrison Kelley was thrice married.His first wife was a Miss Fretwell. The second was Mrs. Sarah Eason, whosemaiden name was Sarah Stamps. She was the mother of Charles HarrisonKelley of this review. She died in 1881, after which Mr. Kelley married aMiss Pilkington. Sixteen children were born of the first two marriages, andMr. Kelley himself was one of sixteen children born to his parents. Thefirst wife was the mother of three sons and three daughters, all of them nowdeceased. The second wife bore him eight sons and two daughters, of whomthere are now living five sons and two daughters. They may be brieflymentioned as follows: Charles H., Edgar Stamps, Oscar Lee, Kendrick King,Beulah Aldine, the wife of Claude E. Register of Atlanta; Alfred Elzavan,and Kthel, the wife of Robert L. Harwell of Atlanta. Three of the seven areinterested in the firm of Kelley Brothers, of which the subject is president,the others being Edgar S., Kendrick K., and Claude E. Register. CharlesHarrison Kelley is the founder of the concern and is one of the principalstockholders. Another of the brothers, Oscar Lee Kelley, is a Methodistminister and is now serving the church at Oxford, Georgia. A half brother,James W. Kelley, was a Baptist minister in Texas. The family has beenidentified with the Methodist Church for several generations, and Rev. JamesKelley, grandfather of the subject, was long in the service of that denomination in the State of Georgia. Another Methodist minister of the family wasRev. Wesley Kelley, an uncle of the' subject, and one of Wesley Kelley'ssons is Rev. William Kelley, pastor of a church in Texas.Charles Harrison Kelley was reared on his father's farm in CowettaCounty. At the age of eighteen he took a road position in the interests of a cotton oil mill, in which he continued for four months. He then became identifiedwith a general store in Newnan, Georgia, as a clerk, and for six months hegave his attention to that enterprise. In August, 1885, he left Newnan andeame to Atlanta, penniless and in debt, but determined to become establishedin business and to reach a position of independence. He secured employment in a dry goods store, while he looked about him with a view to future