HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1204-05.   [Jefferson County]

OLIVER HOLT KELSALL, M.D.--Among the brightest and most promising young
physicians and surgeons of Louisville may be mentioned that of our subject,
Dr. Oliver Holt Kelsall, a native son of the Blue Grass state, having been
born in Louisville on February 18, 1878, the son of John and Martha
(Crowell) Kelsall.  The father was a native of England, and came to the
United States when twenty-one years of age, locating in Louisville.  He
was with B. F. Avery Manufacturing Company of Louisville for many years and
at the time of his death was assistant general manager of that concern,
which is one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the south.  When he
first came to Louisville he was a machinist without means, and his first
work was on the building of the Big Four Railroad bridge.  He then began
work in the B. F. Avery & Company shop, and worked his way up to
superintendent, then to assistant general manager.  He was a fine singer
and sang tenor in Warren Memorial Presbyterian church.  He lost his life
on March 27, 1890, in the cyclone which struck Louisville upon this date.
He was a member of the Walnut Street Presbyterian church and a Mason,
belonging to the Blue Lodge, F. & A. M., Royal Arch, Knight Templars, and
attaining as high as the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite.  The
mother was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Stephen Brun
Crowell, a native of New Jersey, and she died in the fall of 1888.  They
were the parents of the three following children: John Bright, a machinist
with the Louisville City Railroad Company, Oliver Holt and George Avery,
who is professor of electrical engineering at East Lansing, Michigan.
     Mr. Kelsall received his education in the public schools in Louisville
and was graduated from the Louisville Male High School in 1896.  He then
entered the medical department of the University of Louisville and was
graduated therefrom with first honors in the class in 1899, receiving the
M. D. degree.  In order to acquire a practical knowledge of medicine and
treatment, immediately after graduation he went to the City Hospital, where
for one year he was resident physician and surgeon, after which he entered
the general practice of medicine and surgery in Louisville, meeting with
deserved success and having a large and prominent list of patrons. In
addition to his practice he finds time to engage in various other pursuits.
  He taught various branches in the medical department of the Kentucky
University for several years and was appointed to the chair of
Genito-Urinary Diseases and Bacteriology in the medical department of the
Kentucky University, and upon the amalgamation of the schools he filled the
same chair in the University of Louisville.
     Dr. Kelsall is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Society, the
Kentucky State Medical Society, the American Medical Association and the
West End Medical Society of Louisville.  He married Miss Stella C. Fischer,
who was born in Louisville, the daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Decker)
Fischer, natives of Louisville.  The Doctor and his wife have four
children: Estella, Oliver Crowell, Harvey Irwin and Martha Ann.  Dr.
Kelsall and his wife are members of Covenant Presbyterian church.
     J. S. Crowell, a large publisher of Springfield, Ohio, who published
the "Woman's Home Companion" and the "Farm and Fireside" periodicals, which
he founded, is an uncle to the Doctor.  The grandmother on the Doctor's
mother's side was a Graham and was born in the north of Ireland, the
daughter of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian parents.

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