{"id":4872,"date":"2020-04-24T10:08:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:08:45","slug":"ahira-kelley-grave-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/ahira-kelley-grave-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahira Kelley grave site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4873\" src=\"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ahira-Kelley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ahira-Kelley.jpg 576w, https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Ahira-Kelley-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ahira Kelley <\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">(1833-1884)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Moving his cod fishing and packing business A. Kelley &amp; Sons from Cape Cod to Old South Wharf in Fairhaven in 1864, Ahira &#8220;Hiram&#8221; Kelley Jr. founded what became known as D.N. Kelley and Sons Shipyard, one of Fairhaven\u2019s longest operating businesses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">A. Kelley &amp; Sons evolved from a cod fishing business to boat building and ship repair. Kelley bought part interest in the wharf and moved his fishing business there from Cape Cod. Operating a fleet of fishing vessels, Kelley dried and salted cod, packaging it for wholesale distribution until the mid-1930s. Boat repair and building were added in time and Ahira Kelley\u2019s son David N. Kelley incorporated the company as D.N. Kelley &amp; Sons, Inc. and emphasized work on pleasure craft and boat storage. A popular speed boat the \u201cBaby Whale\u201d was made for racing and larger vessels were made for fishing. Once out of the codfish business, though, repair of commercial and recreational boats was the primary business. The boat yard expanded to fill all of Old South Wharf, known more recently as Kelley\u2019s Wharf, as well as taking over the former Center Street Wharf and parts of Union Wharf. In 2000, D.N. Kelley bought the property of Norlantic Diesel on the south side of Union Wharf. The company was run by five generations: Ahira Kelley Jr., David Newcomb Kelley, David Leon Kelley, Frederick Standish Kelley and David Newcomb Kelley II until July 31, 2008, when it was bought by Fairhaven Shipyard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/riverside-cemetery\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">RETURN to Riverside Cemetery<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"email\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Ahira Kelley grave site\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahira Kelley (1833-1884) Moving his cod fishing and packing business A. Kelley &amp; Sons from Cape Cod to Old South Wharf in Fairhaven in 1864, Ahira &#8220;Hiram&#8221; Kelley Jr. founded what became known as D.N. Kelley and Sons Shipyard, one of Fairhaven\u2019s longest operating businesses. A. Kelley &amp; Sons evolved from a cod fishing business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairhaventours.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}