Background
Connelley, William Elsey was born on March 15, 1855 in Johnson Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of Constantine and Rebecca J. (McCarty) Connelley.
Connelley, William Elsey was born on March 15, 1855 in Johnson Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of Constantine and Rebecca J. (McCarty) Connelley.
Principally self-educated. Honorary Master of Arts, Baker U., Kansas, 1911.
Sarah A. Fife, January 13, 1885. Taught school, Johnson Company, 1872-1880, Wyandotte Company, Kansas, 1881-1882. Company clerk Wyandotte Company, 1883-1887.
In wholesale lumber business, Springfield, Missouri, 1888-1892. Connected with banking interests, Kansas City, Kansas, 1892. Wrote call for the first meeting of oil men in Kansas, January 1905, which resulted in organization of Kansas Oil Producers’ Association and began the crusade against Standard Oil Corporation which resulted in the dissolution of that corporation by the Supreme Court United States.
Mason.
Married Julia F. Witten, February 18, 1874.