Earl and Ruby Kelly are Barnes County residents, coming to Valley City in July 1950. They are owners of the Ben Franklin Variety Store. Both are natives of North Dakota; Earl born in 1918 in Langdon, North Dakota, and Ruby (Jacobson) born in 1925 in Dickinson, North Dakota.
Their children are: Michael (19501974); Barbara (1950) married Paul Henke of Valley City in 1973; James (1954); Robert (1957); and Susan (1964). They are members of Our Savior's Lutheran Church. Grandparents of Ruby Kelly were Hans and Matilda Jacobson of Fingal, North Dakota, where they owned a meat market. The Jacobsons immigrated to Fingal in the late 1870's from the Gudbrandsdal Valley of Norway.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 121