Bartoletti, Susan Campbell, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2001, pp 92-95

Bryant, Keith L., History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982, pp 913-201

Cronin, Mike, A History of Ireland, New York, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2001, pp 135-147

“Death Takes Tom T. Kelly”, Kansas City Journal-Post , Kansas City, MO, October 10, 1926, courtesy of the Kansas City (MO.) Public Library

DeConde, Alexander, et.al, Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, New York, Scribner, 2002, Volume 2, pp 367-368

Drury, George H., Santa Fe in the Mountains: Three passes of the West: Raton, Cajon, and Tehachapi, Waukesha, WI, Kalmbach Publishing Co., 1995, pp 11-15

Glischinski, Steve, Santa Fe Railway, Osceola, WI, Motorbooks International, 1997, pp 26, 28-29

“His Resignation in Escrow”, New York Times, October 23, 1904, accessed on the internet March 14, 2009

Johnson, Frank W., A History of Texas and Texans, Chicago and New York, The American Historical Society, 1916, Vol. IV, pp 1613-1614

Kaestle, Carl F., Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, 1780-1860, New York, Hill and Wang, 1983, pp 20, 131-132, 219

“Kansas Republican Ticket”, New York Times, May 29, 1902, accessed on the internet March 14, 2009

The Miami Republican, Paola, KS, various articles 1905-1926

Pratt, Wallace E., Oil In the Earth, Lawrence, KS, University of Kansas Press, 1941, pp 5, 9, 46-47

Rippy, J. Fred, “The Initiation of the Customs Receivership in the Dominican Republic”, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Duke University Press, Vol. 17, No. 4, November, 1937, pp 419-457

Shirley, Glenn, Purple Sage: The Exploits, Adventures and Writings of Patrick SylvesterMcGeeney, Stillwater, OK, Barbed Wire Press, 1989, pp 58-59

Snider, L.C., Ph.D., Oil and Gas in the Mid-Continent Fields, Oklahoma City, OK,

Harlow Publishing Co., 1920, pp 139-140, 155-157, digitized by Google, accessed on the internet in February, 2009

Sprague, Marshall, The Great Gates: The Story of the Rocky Mountain Passes, Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1964, pp 351 & 409

Welles, Sumner, Naboth’s Vineyard: The Dominican Republic 1844-1924, New York, Payson & Clarke, 1928, Vol. II, pp 619-621, 651-652

The Western Spirit, Paola, KS, various articles 1887 to 1926

Newspaper Articles

The following are newspaper articles that have been made known to us and that appeared shortly after Tom Kelly’s death. They are grouped together here because they are similar and relatively brief, announcing his death and recalling his political career.

 “Death Takes Tom T. Kelly (Stormy Political Career of Former Kansas Treasurer Rocked State),” Kansas City MO Journal, October 10, 1926

“Dies In St. Louis Hospital”, Olathe, KS Mirror, October 21, 1926

“ Former State Treasurer Dies”, Atchison (KS) Globe, October 10, 1926

“Thomas P. (sic) Kelly Dies (Turbulent Figure in Kansas Politics Was Known Here)," Pittsburg, KS Headlight, October 11, 1926

“Thomas T. Kelly Is Dead,”Kansas City Star, October 10, 1926

“Thomas T. Kelly Gone,” Johnson County Democrat, Olathe, KS, October 14, 1926

“Tom T. Kelly Is Called By Death,” Newton KS Kansan-Rep., October 11, 1926

“Tom Kelly Dies on Way To Kansas,” Topeka Daily Capital, October 10, 1926

“T. T. Kelly Dead (Political Power in Kansas Politics for Quarter Century),” Topeka State Journal, October 11, 1926

“Operation Fatal To A Brother of Rev. B. S. Kelly,” Leavenworth, KS, Times, October 10, 1926