Frank Delano Kelly was born on January 16, 1881 in Towanda, Pennsylvania, the last of five children, and the third of three boys, of William Boss Kelly and Anna Lodoiska Powell Kelly. He left high school after his first year, i.e., circa 1898, and took employment with a Towanda candy maker and soon became a journeyman in the candy-making business and went to work in that occupation in Buffalo. When he was twenty four, his older brother George Powell Kelly died as a result of an accidental fall from the second-floor balcony of the Stimson Hotel in Athens, Pennsylvania. Being too old for World War I, Frank never served in the military. Feeling disappointed at not having finished high school, he decided to encourage a natural talent for mechanical drawing by beginning a correspondence course in that field which he completed, though no dates are available. On June 19, 1907, Frank married Annie Benedict Cassada, the daughter of Miles T. and Mary Jane Benedict Cassada of Webb Mills, Chemung County, New York. He was apparently working at the Western Electric Company in Chicago when they married, and they lived there for about a year after the wedding. The couple eventually settled in Addison in Steuben County, New York in November, 1908, where Frank operated the local gas company and also had an Atwater-Kent Radio dealership. The Addison Radio Company was touted in a July, 1929 article in the Corning Evening Leader as "the pioneer radio store in Southern New York." Frank and Annie had three children, of whom only the middle one, my father Miles William Kelly, survived childhood. Initially living on Main Street in Addison, my grandparents built a house at 31 Maple Street in Addison in 1922. They had, by all outward appearances, a good married life throughout the 1920s and the early 1930s. According to my father, Frank Kelly retired in 1933, and following his retirement, he and Annie moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in early 1934. Having been plagued with various health problems, Frank died there unexpectedly at age fifty five on May 12, 1936, this representing a terrible loss for his wife and his twenty-six-year-old son Miles and all of his siblings save for George. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Towanda with his wife, parents and all of his siblings, among others. Annie survived him by many years, dying in Bath, New York on October 12, 1971 at age ninety three. To the best of my knowledge, Frank's favorite hobby was fishing. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, he being a thirty-second degree Mason. According to his obituary, he was "a past worshipful master of (the) Addison Union Lodge, Number 118, F. & A. M." He was also a member of the Corning Consistory. Both Annie and Frank, and occasionally Dad, were regular attendees at what she called a businessmen's luncheon, sort of a Chamber of Commerce get-together, it appears. He was also at one time president of the Addison Advertising Club and had been active in that organization "practically since its inception" around 1920. The 1917 village elections found him elected to the office of "collector," by which a Buffalo Express article apparently meant tax collector. It appears he was a Republican in politics, and though they attended services at various churches, I believe they were generally Methodists.