House  1872-73  (District 17)
                            
                            
                                Party when first elected:  Not Available
                            
                            
                                Counties Served: 
                   Goodhue
                            
                            BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
                            
                                
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Birth: 
                                            8/1/1814
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Place: 
                                            Leeds
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth County: 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            Birth Country: 
                                            England
                                        
                                        
                                            Date of Death: 
                                            5/21/1892
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                        
                                        
                                            Gender: 
                                            Male
                                        
                                        
                                            Religion: 
                                            
                                        
                                        
                                            Reported Minority: None Reported
                                        
                                     
                                    
                                 
                                
                                
                                    Other Names: 
                                    T.P.
                                
                                
                                    
                                
                                | Alternate Spelling of Last Name: Kellet | 
                                
                                    City of Residence (when first elected): 
                                    Zumbrota
                                
                                
                                    Occupation (when first elected): 
                                    Merchant/Former Woolen Manufacturer
                                
                             
                            EDUCATION
                            
                                
                                    Common Schools; At Least Elementary School; 
                                
                             
                            OTHER GOVERNMENT SERVICE
                            
                                
                                
                                        
                                        
                                            Judge: 
                                            Zumbrota, Minnesota (Justice of the Peace); 
                         
                         18?? to 18??
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            Postmaster: 
                                            Zumbrota, Minnesota (He was the First Postmaster at Zumbrota); 
                         
                         18?? to 18??
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                        
                                            School Board/Administration: 
                                            Zumbrota, Minnesota (School Board, President); 
                         
                         18?? to 18??
                                            
                                        
                                    
                                    
                             
                         
                        
                        
                            FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
                            
                                
	
                                    Spouse: 
                                    Married (when first elected); Widower (listed in 1873)
                                    Children: 
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    Family Members Who Have Served in the Minnesota Legislature: 
                                    
                                    
                                
                             
                            GENERAL NOTES
                            
                                
                                    The Fifteenth Legislature of Minnesota: Biographical Sketches, St. Paul: Press Printing Company, 1873 lists his last name as Kellet.  Toensing and the Minnesota Legislative Manuals, 1872 and 1873 list Kellett.
He came to the United States in 1835 and settled in Pennsylvania.  He came to Minnesota in 1856.
According to an obituary in the Red Wing Daily Republican, he was originally a Whig and later a Republican.  (MHS Researcher)
He died in Zumbrota, Minnesota.
His middle name, birth date, other government service, death date, and death year were provided by a researcher from the Minnesota Historical Society.