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T. J. Kelley, watchmaker and jeweler and dealer in clocks, watches, etc., at Golden City, Mo., was born in Allen County, Ky., February 18, 1842, and is a son of J. W. and Elizabeth A. Kelley. He was married to Anther Butler in Hardyville, Ky., and they have had seven children born to them, four of whom are now living: Annas, Ida, Ethel and Ula. The names of those deceased are Joseph, Emma and Ollie, who died in childhood. Anther Kelley was born July 4, 1842. The parents received fair education in the common schools. T. J. Kelley began learning the watchmaker and jeweler’s trade in the year 1859, and it has been his principal business since that time. Amos Kentner, a farmer and stockman of Golden City Township, has been a resident of Southwestern Missouri for fifteen years, and has resided on his present farm since 1881. He was born in Wyoming County, Penn., and is a son of William and Susan (Heller) Kentner, who were also born in Pennsylvania. In 1848 they emigrated to Lee County, Ill., where the father bought a farm of 240 acres, on which he lived until his death, in 1857, at the age of fifty-five years. His widow is still living, and is residing on the old homestead, at the age of eighty-four years. Amos Kentner was reared on this farm, educated in the public schools, and made his home with his parents until twenty-one years of age, when he took the overland trip to California, in which State he remained, engaged in mining, for twelve years. The following two years he then spent at his old home in Illinois, after which he went to Nebraska, and was engaged in the grain business for one year. In 1876 he moved to Jasper County, Mo., and, after renting a farm for about five years, came to Barton County, and purchased his present property, which first consisted of eighty acres, but now amounts to 240 acres of well-improved land. He was married in 1875 to Miss Elizabeth Waters, a native of Indiana, by whom he has one child, Jacob. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder; and in his political views he is a Republican, and is one of the most enterprising farmers of the township. He served one term as justice of the peace.