Webb J. Kelly, M. D. A practitioner of medicine and surgery for forty years, and for nineteen years a resident of Piqua, Dr. Webb J. Kelly has become widely and prominently known as a surgeon of splendid ability. He was born in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1857, a son of H. R. and Emma (Keech) Kelly. H.R. Kelly was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, and studied for the medical profession at Starling Medical College, for many years following his profession at Galion, this state. During the Civil war he fought in the Union Army and rose to the rank of major, and during his lifetime served as a trustee of the Girls Industrial Home by appointment of Governor Bishop. His mother was Sarah (Rockefeller) Kelly, an aunt of John D. Rockefeller, the great oil magnate and philanthropist. H. R. and Emma (Keech) Kelly arc both deceased and lie at rest in the cemetery near Johnsville, Richland county. The only child of his parents, Webb J. Kelly attended the public schools and Ohio Wesleyan University and was graduated from Starling Medical College in 1879. Later he attended Bellevue for post-graduate work, and began practice at Galion in 1880, remaining there until 1901, when he came to Piqua. During a period of twenty- two years, Doctor Kelly was surgeon of four hundred miles of the Big Four railroad, and at this time is physician for the Meteor Motor Car Company and spends one hour a day at the factory of that company in connection with the industrial welfare work of the concern. Doctor Kelly specializes in surgery, a line in which he has won much more than local reputation. He is a great believer in the benefits securable from an out-of-door life, and his summers he always spends in roughing it in Northern Minnesota. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Improved Order of Red Men and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was prominent in all local movements during the recent World war. Mrs. Kelly prior to her marriage to the doctor, bore the maiden name of Viola Coppes.