[3][4][5] Their children included William Henderson Kelly, who also became a newspaperman and later a noted anthropologist of the American Southwest.

Kelly Print owned newspapers in Tucson, Phoenix, Globe, and Tombstone.

[2] In 1930, Kelly ran for and won the Arizona State Senate for the single seat from Graham County.

[14] He chose not to try for re-election again in 1934, instead challenging incumbent James H. Kerby in the Democrat primary for Arizona Secretary of State, but was defeated in a five-man race, coming in second.

[16][17] He did not run for re-election in 1940, instead joining Governor Robert Taylor Jones' staff in 1939 as his executive secretary.