Luther Kelly
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− | Luther Sage "[[Yellowstone]]" Kelly was born July 27, 1849, in [[Geneva, New York]]. | + | Luther Sage "[[Yellowstone]]" Kelly was born July 27, 1849, in [[Geneva, New York]]. His father, also named Luther Kelly, owned a drug and grocery store in Geneva. His mother, Jeanette Eliza Sage, was the daughter of Colonel Hezekiah Sage of nearby [[Chittenango]]. Kelly's father died on February 14, 1857, leaving him the man of the family, but the family had enough money saved to live comfortably. In either late 1864 or early 1865, Kelly entered the Geneva Wesleyan Seminary, but his real interest was in joining the army and fighting in the Civil War; he would later write that he "deplored the fact" that his youth rendered him unfit for military service at that time. |
==Military service== | ==Military service== |