| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation42. Philip Henry KELLS55 was born on 4 April 1813 in Claverack, Columbia Co., NY.2 He died on 10 March 1876 at the age of 62 in Adrian, Lenawee Co., MI. In the 1850 Census, he was listed as Philip A. and living in Hudson, NY, and listed as a machinist with a worth of $2500. He had his wife and all his children in the household, as well a a number of men including Alexander Kells, 25 (b. 1825) and Charles Kells, 25 (b. 1825). The 1860 City Directory notes that he was a machinist. Birth dates for his wife and children are estimated from the ages listed in the Census. In the 1860 Census, he and the family, minus Allen, Maria, and Jacob, were in Albany, Floyd Co., MI. By the time of the 1880 Census, he was in Adrian, MI, where he was located in 1900 and listed as a farmer. Wait a minute, he died in 1876 in Indiana? Philip H. Kells had a machine shop in Hudson in 1851. Allen and Charles Kells lived in Hudson in 1851; Allen a machinist, Charles a carpenter. Philip patented the second successful mower in the US. He moved to New Albany, Indiana, and established Kells and Sons to manufacture mowers. They had 6 children, 1 deceased by 1888. Ref. P&BA-Len pg. 424-5. Philip Henry KELLS and Charlotte Brazee SHELDON were married on 28 January 1832 in Christ's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ghent, NY. Charlotte Brazee SHELDON, daughter of John SHELDON, was born about 1815. Philip Henry KELLS and Charlotte Brazee SHELDON had the following children:
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