Shelley

Church of the Brethren history includes:
"The first members in Sherman county were John F. Cline and wife, formerly of the Octavia church, Nebraska. They came to Kansas in the fall of 1886, and settled nine miles south of the present site of Goodland. They were forty miles from a railroad and thirty miles south of the sod church of the Cheyenne congregation. But other members soon came in, attracted by Kansas homesteads. The most of the future membership was from the Appanoose congregation, Iowa. The first convert, Mary Florence Ort, was baptized on May 8, 1887. On November 19, 1887, the organization was perfected at the home of Bro. Cline, a minister in the second degree. Of the charter members the following names are available: John F. Cline and wife, Samuel Wichael and wife, Bro. and Sister Price, Mary Ort, William Welsh, wife, and three children, John Brewer and wife, and Levi Whisler and wife. The territory included Sherman and Wallace counties, the latter having some five scattered members within its limits. "

June 1932 - Emporia Kansas

The family of a country doctor who located accidentally S8 years ago in Elmdale, has made an outstanding success at what each member of the family has undertaken, largely because the physician's wife kept the children busy and taught them to do detailed work and because of the desire of the parents to see their children succeed. The announcement that Margaret Shelley, youngest daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Shelley, will study violin in Europe next winter recalls some of the accomplishments of this child prodigy who, at the age of 24, has had three years' experience as a violin instructor at McPherson college and who this summer will get a master's degree in music education at Columbia university. Outstanding success of one member of a family is not unusual, but it is uncommon to find four children in one family doing outstanding work in their chosen professions at early ages.
She transferred to Bethany college at Lindsborg, whee she took her bachelor of ats degree at 19, and her bachelor of music degree a year later. The past three years she has been at McPherson college as Instructor in violin, orchestra and theory. In the summer months she has been studying at Columbia university in New York and this summer will receive her master's degree in music education.

Carol, the next to the youngest child, has specialized in voice. Her education has paralleled Margaret's, as the two went to college together. After her graduation and work on a bachelor's degree in music at Bethany college, she became an assistant in voice. The past year she has been music instructor in the high school at Lane. She has been working part time since 1928 on a master's degree in music education at Columbia university and will get it in another summer.

The other two children carry the title M. D.. with their names. Harold J. Shelley, now 35, is a member of the surgical units of the Knickerbocker and St. Luke's hospitals in ..... Dr. Shelley accidentally started practicing medicine here in December, 1894. He was returning to western Kansas from Emporia, where he had rented an office, when he was forced by rain to stop overnight in Elmdale. Upon learning that there was no doctor in town, he decided to stay a year. He has been here 40 years. Upon his graduation from the Rush Medical college in Chicago, Dr. Shelley went to Salt Lake City, Utah, with another doctor. After remaining there about six months he was called home to Kanorado, Kan., by an injury to his brother-in-law and by the need of help in operating a partnership store in which Dr. Shelley, his mother, brother and brother-in-law were interested. In the fall of 1894 the bottom fell out of everything in western Kansas and Dr. Shelley began looking for a Then he rented an new location, office in Emporia but came to Elmdale.

Margaret, the youngest Shelley child, went to grade and high schools in Elmdale and there received her first instruction in violin from the high school music instructor. C. F. Dissinger. Asked if now, after she has studied under some of the leading violin teachers in the United States, she considered her high school instructor a good one, she replied without hesitation that he was and that she never had to relearn anything he taught her. Entering the College of Emporia st the age of 15. Margaret took to New York City, and Dorothy, his next younger sister, is practicing medicine and doing general surgery at the Beekman Street hospital in New York.

Harold got an A. B. degree and worked on his master's degree at the University of Kansas before going to Rush Medical college in Chicago, to take a degree in medicine. A 2-year internship at Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, training and study at the Crile clinic in Cleveland and a 4-months tour and study of European technique at hospitals in France, Italy and Austria followed before he began practicing in New York City. In 1926 he was placed on the surgical staff of Knickerbocker hospital and in 1928 was elected to the staff of St. Luke's hospital. He has contributed several articles on surgery to the medical magazines, Annals of Surgery, Archives of Surgery and the American Journal of Surgery. His latest article appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Surgery.
Upon completion of her high school work in Cottonwood Falls. Dorothy went to the University of Kansas for a bachelor of arts degree in 1923 and an M. D. in 1926. Her internship was at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, and since that time she has been connected with the Beckman Street hospital in New York City, practicing medicine and doing general surgery.
Another son, Foster Shelley, died six years ago in California.

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