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Edward Irwin Kellie Full Name: Edward Irwin Kellie Date of birth: March 17, 1845 Date of death: June 24, 1928 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 14 Jan 9, 1907 - Jan 10, 1911 31st (1) (2) (3)   30th (4)   Democrat Jasper / Jasper Senate President Pro Tempore (31st)   Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler (1) 31st Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 4/11/1909, 1st C.S. Senate Journal. (2) Democrat; roster of members of the 31st Legislature with biographical and party information. "Year Book 1909," Number 13, May-June 1910, pp. 408-415. Bulletin (Texas Department of Agriculture), 1910. (3) 31st Legislature - 1/12/1909, pp. 1-2, listed in Roll Call with "hold-over Senators." Senate Journal. (4) 30th Legislature - 1/8/1907, p. 2, listed as Absent; 1/9/1907, p. 5, administered the oath of office. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches Edward Irwin Kellie (1845-1928), photo and biographical sketch, interment in Jasper City Cemetery, Jasper County. Find a Grave. Biographical sketch of Captain E.I. Kellie; photograph of E.I. Kellie and the “Jeff Davis Rifles” militia, taken in Washington D.C. in 1901. Kellie founded “Jasper Newsboy” newspaper and represented East Texas as a State Senator. Jewels of Jasper: a Project of the Students of Jasper Jr. High School, Jasper, Texas, 2009. Military Service Notes Confederate States Army, Color Bearer of Whitfield's Texas Legion, 27th Texas Cavalry. Edward Irwin Kellie, born 1845, death date 6/24/1928, newspaper publisher and founder of Jasper Newsboy. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002. Other Resources Census of 1880 - E.I. Kellie, Orange, Orange County, born about 1845 in South Carolina, editor, age 35. FamilySearch. Edward Irwin Kellie, birth date 3/17/1845, death date 6/24/1928. Certificate of death lists name Captain Edward Irwin Kellie. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. "East Texas' Mark Twain, Edward I. Kellie," by Bob Bowman, date unknown. Founder of Jasper News-boy. Texas Escapes Online Magazine. 31st Legislature (1909) - E.I. Kellie, Jasper, Jasper County, nativity South Carolina, Civil Engineer, Dem., age 63, 50 years in Texas. Texas Legislative Manual. "Early Southeast Texas newspapers: history of yesteryear recorded in their yellowed pages," W.T. Block, Reprinted from Beaumont Enterprise-Journal, 1/1/1978, p. 10a. Edward Isaiah Kellie age 16 in Nov. 1860, state senator, died at Jasper abt. 1930. W.T. Block, Jr.. Photographs Photograph. E.I. Kellie, 30th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. E.I. Kellie, 31st Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 30th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, east wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 31st session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, east wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 31st R.S. - 1909 Agricultural Affairs   Commerce and Manufactures   Federal Relations   Labor   Military Affairs (Chair)  Mining and Irrigation   Public Buildings and Grounds   Public Health   Public Lands and Land Office   30th R.S. - 1907 Commerce and Manufactures   Educational Affairs   Labor   Military Affairs (Chair)  Mining and Irrigation   Public Land and Land Office   Public Printing

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