Life Span
to
Full name
Willam Darrah Kelley
Place of Birth
Philadelphia, PA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
8
Family
David Kelley (father), Hannah Louisa Fraunces Kelley (mother), Caroline Bartram-Bonsall (wife) 
Occupation
Politician
Attorney or Judge
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Democratic
Republican
Government
US House of Representatives
State judge
Military
Union Army
Date Event
In Charleston Harbor, General Robert Anderson re-hoists the United States flag over Fort Sumter
In Pennsylvania, General John W. Geary is elected governor as Republicans again dominate.
In Mobile, Alabama, deadly rioting disrupts a Republican public meeting and two die.
Thirty-Seventh Congress of the United States
Emancipation
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States
Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
Fortieth Congress of the United States
Date Title
Reverend Henry Ward Beecher's remarks at the ceremony restoring the flag to Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 14, 1865
How to Cite This Page: "Kelley, William Darrah," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/41897.