T. Howard (Thomas Howard) Kelly

Born in 1895 and dying in 1967, T. Howard Kelly — Thomas Howard Kelly — was an American author and editor. Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page list him as the author of What Outfit, Buddy?, a novel set around the experience of an American soldier in France during World War I.

Other surviving references describe him as an editor and public-relations professional, and one biographical source links him with both the United States Brewers Foundation and the Amelia Island History Association. Records preserved by the Amelia Island Museum of History also place him firmly in the story of Fernandina and Amelia Island.

A museum photograph of Kelly standing beside a locomotive includes his own note about a family tradition in Florida railroads: he wrote that his grandfather helped build Florida's first railroad in 1854, and that his father later became president of the Fernandina and Western Railroad. That local connection helps explain why he remains of interest not only as a writer, but also as part of Amelia Island's historical memory.