Michael Kelly was born in Bellinan, Meath, Ireland, on August 15, 1823. He emigrated to the United States and in 1850, at age of twenty-seven sought entrance to the Brothers' life, and was admitted to the Novitiate at Montreal where he received the robe and religious name of Brother Urban. He taught in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, was Director of the Community in Troy, and taught at Albany where he is credited with organizing the first Christian Brothers Alumni Association. On August 10, 1867, he was sent as the new Director to the boarding school in Galveston, Texas. The city was quarantined due to the yellow fever and he was forced to retreat to the College in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Yellow fever followed him there and he died a few days after his arrival at the age of forty-four, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for seventeen years.
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