Daniel E. Kelley

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Daniel E. Kelley (Rhode Island, February 1843 – Iowa, 1905) was a musician and entertainer, who after moving to Kansas in 1872, wrote the music for "Home on the Range" (following lyrics by Brewster M. Higley), which became the state song. Kelley played violin with his brothers-in-law in the Harlan Brothers Band, but was primarily a carpenter by trade. He married Mary E. Harlan in Kansas and they had four children. He moved to Iowa in 1889 and died of a stroke there in 1905.{{Citation needed|date=February 2010}} He was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa.

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{{cite news |url=http://www.cjonline.com/stories/011201/ksp_coder12.shtml |title='Home on the Range' lives on through the legacy of Kansas |first=James |last=Coder |work=The Topeka Capital-Journal |accessdate=2008-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061857/http://cjonline.com/stories/011201/ksp_coder12.shtml |archive-date=2011-06-06 |url-status=dead }}
Daniel E. Kelley (1843–1905, 1905) Tombstone, Fairview Cemetery, Waterloo, Iowa. A recent plaque attached to the stone identifies him as the composer of "Home on the Range".
{{citation |url=http://www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/home/harlan.htm#marye |title=Harlan Family |work=Kansas Heritage Site |accessdate=2010-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205011705/http://www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/home/harlan.htm#marye |archivedate=2010-12-05 }}
{{citation |url=http://www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/range.htm |title=Home on the Range |work=Kansas Heritage Site |accessdate=2010-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107011753/http://www.kansasheritage.org/kssights/range.htm |archivedate=2010-01-07 }}

Category:1843 births

Category:1905 deaths

Category:19th-century American composers

Category:19th-century American male musicians

Category:American entertainers

Category:American male composers

Category:Musicians from Kansas