Kelley, Nicholas "Ko" (1885-1965)

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Jane Addams to Nicholas Kelley, October 1, 1905

Jane Addams to Nicholas Kelley, June 23, 1907

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Birth Date

1885-07-12

Death Date

1965-10-28

Birthplace

Zurich, Switzerland

Biographical Text

Nicholas Kelley was the son of Florence Kelley and Count Lazare Wischnewetzky. When his parents divorced in 1892, he took his mother's name as his surname. Kelley spent much of his youth at Hull House, leaving to attend Harvard in 1901. Kelley received his law degree there in 1909 and worked for the New York law firm of Cravath, Henderson & deGersdoff. He worked for the New York City draft board during World War I and served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, working on loans to foreign governments. In 1934, Kelley joined the Automobile Labor Board which worked on carrying out the terms of an agreement that forestalled an auto strike. Kelley served as counsel, vice president, and director of Chrysler until his retirement in 1957. He supported many of the causes that his mother worked for, including the Legal Aid Society, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, Swarthmore College, the Henry Street Settlement, and the League of Women Voters. Kelley died in 1965 after a long illness.

Kelley married Augusta Lewis Maverick in 1907. They had three children, Nicholas Jr. and Augustus M, and Florence M. Kelley Worgan.

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Photo: Nicholas Kelley as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1920 ( Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Digital Id: npcc 01824 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.01824).

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

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1902

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"Nicholas Kelley, Lawyer, Is Dead," New York Times, October 29, 1965, p. 43.

Augusta Kelley, 1930 United States Federal Census

New York, Naturalization Records, 1882-1944

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“Kelley, Nicholas "Ko" (1885-1965),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed August 2, 2025, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/265.

Kelley, Nicholas "Ko" (1885-1965)

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Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, May 15, 1901

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, July 1901

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, July 18, 1901

Jane Addams to Unknown, ca. April 6, 1902

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, December 29, 1902

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, August 5, 1903

Mary Rozet Smith to Florence Kelley, December 16, 1906

Jane Addams to Augusta Maverick Kelley, October 9, 1909

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, January 29, 1919

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, August 2, 1922

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, July 20, 1927

Jane Addams to Nicholas Kelley, October 1, 1905

Jane Addams to Nicholas Kelley, June 23, 1907

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