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Mary Joe Kell Putty<br>
Mary Joe Kell Putty<br>
Joseph Archibald Kell<br>
Joseph Archibald Kell<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Francis Marion and Sarah Lucinda Potter
'''Relations''': <br>
'''Relations''': <br>
[[Joseph A. Kemp]] (brother-in-law)<br>
[[Joseph A. Kemp]] (brother-in-law)<br>
Collectively, the companies had more than 1,300 miles of track. The Wichita Falls and Northwestern and the Wichita Falls and Southern railroads reached into [[wheat]] and [[coal]]-producing areas. In 1911, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, also known as "the Katy," purchased from Kemp and Kell the Wichita Falls Railway, which linked Wichita Falls with Henrietta in Clay County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 20, 2013}}</ref> Until his death in 1941 at the age of 81, Kell still owned and managed 565 miles of railroad track.<ref name=tshao/> The Wichita Falls and Northwestern operated from 1906 to 1923 from Wichita Falls to Forgan in the Oklahoma Panhandle; it, too, was absorbed by the Katy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw10|title=Donovan L. Hofsommer, "The Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway"|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref>
Collectively, the companies had more than 1,300 miles of track. The Wichita Falls and Northwestern and the Wichita Falls and Southern railroads reached into [[wheat]] and [[coal]]-producing areas. In 1911, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, also known as "the Katy," purchased from Kemp and Kell the Wichita Falls Railway, which linked Wichita Falls with Henrietta in Clay County.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 20, 2013}}</ref> Until his death in 1941 at the age of 81, Kell still owned and managed 565 miles of railroad track.<ref name=tshao/> The Wichita Falls and Northwestern operated from 1906 to 1923 from Wichita Falls to Forgan in the Oklahoma Panhandle; it, too, was absorbed by the Katy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw10|title=Donovan L. Hofsommer, "The Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway"|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 21, 2013}}</ref>
Kell was further heavily engaged in [[cattle]] ranching, [[farming]], and the refining of [[petroleum]] and cottonseed oil. From 1914 to 1927, he was appointed as a director of the Eleventh District [[Federal Reserve]] Bank, based in [[Dallas]]. During [[World War I]], he was the chairman of the milling division for both Texas and [[New Mexico]] under Food Administrator and later [[U.S. President]] [[Herbert Hoover]]. In 1920, Kell was named a director of the United States [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=tshao/>
Kell was further heavily engaged in [[cattle]] ranching, [[farming]], and the refining of [[petroleum]] and cottonseed oil. From 1914 to 1927, he was appointed as a director of the Eleventh District [[Federal Reserve]] Bank, based in [[Dallas]]. During [[World War I]], he was the chairman of the milling division for both Texas and [[New Mexico]] under Food Administrator and later [[U.S. President]] [[Herbert Hoover]]. In 1920, Kell was named a director of the United States [[Chamber of Commerce]].<ref name=tshao/>
==Republican politics==
==Republican politics==
One of Kell's sons-in-law, [[Orville Bullington]], a [[Missouri]] native and lawyer and businessman in Wichita Falls, was the 1932 [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]]nominee. He polled some 38 percent of the [[general election]] vote against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] former Governor Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson (1875-1961), even as President Hoover was crushed in his re-election bid in Texas and nationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasalmanac.com/politics/gubernatorial.pdf|title=Elections of Texas Governors, 1845–2006|publisher=texasalmananc.com|accessdate=June 11, 2010}}</ref> After Kell's death, Bullington became president of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad and was its executive at the time the company was liquidated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu18|title=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line: Orville Bullington|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref>
One of Kell's sons-in-law, [[Orville Bullington]], a [[Missouri]] native and lawyer and businessman in Wichita Falls, was the 1932 [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor|gubernatorial]]nominee. He polled some 38 percent of the [[general election]] vote against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] former Governor Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson (1875-1961), even as President Hoover was crushed in his re-election bid in Texas and nationally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.texasalmanac.com/politics/gubernatorial.pdf|title=Elections of Texas Governors, 1845–2006|publisher=texasalmananc.com|accessdate=June 11, 2010}}</ref> After Kell's death, Bullington became president of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad and was its executive at the time the company was liquidated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu18|title=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line: Orville Bullington|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 16, 2013}}</ref>