Kelley
HOWARD G., a Canadian railroad president. He was born in Philadelphia in 1858 and graduated from the Polytechnic College, Pennsylvania.
He entered railroad service in 1881, becoming engineer on location bridge construction and harbor work. He had charge of the field construction of 250 miles on West and Pacific divisions in Washington, Idaho and Montana of the Northern Pacific railway till 1884. He was superintendent of mines in Montana, 1884-1887, and engineer with St. Louis Southwestern railroad 1887-1898. He was connected with other railroad systems as consulting and chief engineer, and in 1917 became president of the Grand Trunk railway system, president also of Grand Trunk Pacific railway, and sident chairman of the board of the Central Vermont railway.