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Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 230.
KELSAY, HON. JOHN, of Corvallis, has been one of the Republican leaders of the state from the infancy of the party. He was born in Wayne County, Kentucky, October 23, 1819, and came to Oregon in 1853, locating at Corvallis. He was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Missouri, July 9, 1845, and has been a prominent member of the bar of Oregon for forty-three years. He has been a delegate to the Republican state convention frequently. He was nominated and elected a Judge of the Superior Court in 1868, and again nominated in 1870 and 1872. Colonel Kelsay commanded a regiment of Oregon volunteers in the Rogue river Indian war of 1855-1856. He is now Mayor of the City Corvallis. For thirty-five years he has been an active worker in the Republican party.
-Tony Larson
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