Biography of Edward Kelham, pages 688 / 689.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Edward Kelham, farmer, section 31, Keyser Township, was born in Lincolnshire, 
England, Nov. 13, 1826, the tenth of thirteen children of Thomas and Mary 
(Boothby) Kelham.  He was reared and educated in his native country, and in 
1849 came to America and located in Richland County, Ohio.  He worked on the 
railroad and on lake steamers three years, and by being economical saved 
enough to buy forty acres of land, and began making a home.  In 1857 he 
moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and bought eighty acres of unimproved land, 
to which , by good management and industry, he has added till he now owns 
400 acres of the best land in the township.  All well cultivated.  He is a 
public-spirited and liberal man, and is held in high esteem by all who know 
him.  In 1878 he was elected County Commissioner and served three years; was 
again nominated, but refused to serve on account of the demands of his 
personal business.  Mr. Kelham is a purely self-made man, coming to this 
country as he did a poor man he has worked his way from poverty to 
affluence, and now ranks with the best businessmen of De Kalb County.  
He was married in Richland County, Ohio, April 22, 1853, to Miss Sarah 
Downend, a native of England, who came with her parents, James and Mary 
(Shaw) Downend, to America when she was eight years old.  They have had 
ten children---Thomas, Edward, Jr.,  Mary, Joseph A., James, Martha, 
George, Charles T., Matilda and William F.   Matilda, William and Martha 
are deceased.  Politically Mr. Kelham in a Democrat.

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