Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1910 — Extensive Land Owner Near Monon Dies Suddenly in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Extensive Land Owner Near Monon Dies Suddenly in Chicago.

Thomas Kelly, president of the National Live Stock Commission Co., of Chicago, died at an early hour Wednesday morning at his home in that city, of heart failure. Mr. Kelly owned about 1,700 acres of land near Monon, which he had purchased some three or four years ago and on which he had made extensive building and drainage improvements. His manager there was B. B. Curtis, to whom was communicated the news of Mr. Kelly’s death. The Monon News state's that an army of employes had been kept busy making improvements on the farm ever sihce Mr. Kelly purchased it, and that his death was a great loss to that community. He was only 52 years of age.