Biography - Samuel T. Kelso

SAMUEL T. KELSO, County Recorder of Mineral County, is a native of Aroostook County, Maine, his birth having occurred in 1849. He received his education in the public schools of his native State. In 1869 he came to the Pacific Coast and located in San Francisco. He later went to Washington, where he remained until 1875, and was identified with the lumbering business. In the fall of 1875 he returned to San Francisco, where he remained until the spring of 1876, when he came to Nevada and located in Virginia City. He followed mining here for some time and then prospected and mined in Esmeralda County. He returned to Virginia City and mined from 1889 to 1893 and in the fall of '93 he returned to Esmeralda County. During the rush to Klondyke in 1897 he resolved to seek his fortune in the new camp and was at Sheep Camp at the time of the big snowslide which killed about fifty-four people, and he assisted in taking out the bodies. He remained in Alaska for four years, and in 1901 he returned to Nevada. He was in Goldfield during the boom days and for two years he was manager of a hardware and grocery business, but remained in that camp for four years. In politics Mr. Kelso is a Republican. He was chosen by the people of Mineral County to serve for a two-year term as County Recorder. He was married in Virginia City to Atha Mack in 1889 and she died in 1900. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Odd Fellows. He is still interested in mining throughout Nevada.

Transcribed 2020 May 06 by Norma Hass from The History of Nevada, published in 1913, volume 2, pages 1214-1215.

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