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Kate Shelley
Katherine Carroll "Kate" Shelley (December 12, 1863 – January 21, 1912〔http://www.kateshelley.com/about-kate.html〕) was a midwestern United States railroad heroine and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named after her, the Kate Shelley High Bridge. She was also one of the few women to ever have a train named after her, the ''Kate Shelley 400''.
==Background==
Kate was born at Loughaun, a crossroads near the village of Dunkerrin and the town of Moneygall, in County Offaly, Ireland.〔(''Kate Shelley: Heroine of the High Bridges'' )〕 Dunkerrin Catholic Church records show that her parents, Michael and Margaret Shelley, married on February 24, 1863, and she was baptized on December 12, 1863. Her grave says she was born on September 25, 1865 and died January 21, 1912. The family name was originally spelled Shelly, which is how she wrote her name, but the spelling Shelley was later adopted.〔(''Kate Shelley: Railway Heroine'' )〕
Michael was likely a tenant farmer in Ireland. The family emigrated to the United States when Kate was a 1-1/2 years old.〔 They first lived with relatives near Freeport, Illinois, then built a home on about near Honey Creek, a perennial tributary stream to the Des Moines River in Boone County, Iowa located to the east of Moingona, Iowa.〔 Michael became foreman of a section crew, building tracks for the Chicago and North Western Railway.〔
Michael died of "consumption," the name for what was later identified as tuberculosis, in 1878. Kate had to help support the family by plowing, planting, harvesting crops, and hunting.〔 The 1880 federal census for Worth Township showed 35-year-old Margaret, 15-year-old Kate, both born in Ireland, and 8-year-old Mary, 6-year-old Margaret, and 4-year-old John, all born in Iowa.〔U.S. Census Year: 1880; Census Place: Worth, Boone, Iowa; Roll: T9_328; Family History Film: 1254328; Page: 155.1000; Enumeration District: 10; Image: 0394.〕 Michael and Margaret had a fifth child, James (also born in Iowa), but he drowned while swimming in the Des Moines River when he was only ten.〔Boone County Republican, July 16, 1879〕
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