Br. Francis Regis

Born in Oldham, England, on January 14, 1849, Edward James Kelly was the son of Patrick E. and Mary McQuillan Kelly. His family emigrated to the United States and at age twelve he entered the Novitiate in New York on August 13, 1861. On November 1st he received the habit and the religious name of Brother Francis Regis. A year later in April of 1862 he was assigned classes in Philadelphia. He remained in the east, completing his education and teaching until his assignments in the west brought him to Christian Brothers College in St. Louis as Sub-Director in 1885 and to Memphis in 1886. He was assigned to St. Paul in mid-year 1886 and to St. Joseph, Missouri, to CB Academy in 1887. He returned to CBC, St. Louis in 1889, was Director at St. Vincent's in 1905, and was a noted mathemati­cian in the St. Louis area. He was assigned to De La Salle in Chicago in 1912 but in 1913 he left for work in the San Francisco District. He died in Martinez at age sixty-eight, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-six years.