Background
Kelley, Lilla Elizabeth was born on May 18, 1872 in S. Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Samuel and Mary J. (Fitton) Kelley.
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Lilla Elizabeth Kelley
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Educated private teachers and Girls’ High School, Boston, 1887-1888. O.B., Emerson College of Oratory, 1890, O.M., 1891. Unmarried.
Career
Teacher elocution, Tilton (N.H.) Seminary, 1895-1896, Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts, 1896-1897. Teacher Thompson’s Island School for Boys, Boston Harbor, 1908. Teacher in Wrentham State School for the Feebleminded, 1910.
Teacher and matron Lancaster Industrial School for Girls, 1910-1917. A parole agent for the Massachusetts Department of Correction, since 1917. Public reader; contributor stories and poems to mags.
Charter member Boston Ruskin Club (president fifteen years).
Membership
Member Boston Ruskin Club (president fifteen yrs.
