John Lupia submitted the following information from the online draft of his book of numismatic biographies for this week's installment of his series.
Thanks! As always, this is an excerpt with the full article and bibliography available online. This week's subject is Kansas dealer Harry Kelso. -Editor
Harry Edson Kelso (1902-1988), was born in Grant City, Montgomery County, Iowa on July 23, 1902, son of Leon Edson Kelso (1875-1933), and Ella Jane Piper Kelso
(1870-1945).
Harry E. Kelso never graduated high school finishing his junior year. He left school and took up the trade of a shoemaker when he lived at Arma, Kansas. He never married and
lived with his parents working as a shoemaker in his own shoe repair shop at Pittsburg, Kansas. He conducted an antique business as a sideline buying old U. S. and foreign coins,
paper money, postage stamps, old books, antique glass and jewelry, etc.
He died on May 21, 1988, at Miami, Oklahoma. He is buried in Highland Park Cemetery, Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas.
Kelso's ads in The Numismatist 12/1919 and 12/1922
To read the complete article, see:
KELSO, HARRY EDSON, Jr.
(https://sites.google.com/a/numismaticmall.com/www/numismaticmall-com/kelso-harry-e)
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