From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Pages 532 - 533
 
ALPHONSO G. KELLAM, son of Harvey and Julia (DAVIS), was born at Scottsville, 
near Rochester, New York, December 7, 1840; came to Elkhorn about 1857 and 
studied law in the office of WINSOR & SMITH.  He was an unusually bright 
student and readily digested whatever he learned.  He was admitted to the bar 
in 1859 and practiced at Delavan until 1862, when he recruited Company D, 
Twenty-second Infantry, and became its captain; in 1864; he was commissioned as 
major; was mustered out of service in June, 1865, after an active and most 
creditable service of nearly three years.  He married at Smithville, New York, 
October 23, 1865, and returned to law practice at Delavan with Alfred S. 
SPOONER as partner.  In the earlier seventies he went to Chamberlain, Dakota, 
and became the first chief-justice of the state of South Dakota.  Several years 
later he resigned and went to Spokane, where he died June 15, 1909, leaving his 
wife and a son, Fred W. KELLAM, a lawyer of that city.

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