Los Angeles-Plumas-Lassen County CA Archives Biographies.....Keener, James P. 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

JAMES P. KEENER, well-known citizen of Sawtelle, is a native of the state of
Iowa, and was born in the city of Des Moines, April 29th, 1854. His father,
George W. Keener, was a farmer and was interested in woolen mills which
manufactured cashmeres, flannels and other woolen fabrics. He was a native of
Holland and came to this country when a child, the family locating in Tennessee.
He married Miss Amanda Langford, who bore him nine children, of whom James P. is
the second born. He grew up in Des Moines, worked in a machine shop, where he
learned the millwright trade in Centerville, Iowa. In 1875, he came to
California, reaching San Francisco April 22nd of that year, and for a time
worked in the Hendee Iron Works. From San Francisco he went into the mines and
erected quartz mills, having a seeming monopoly of the business in Plumas,
Lassen and Sierra counties. He also built mills at Tombstone, Arizona, and one
on Frazer river, British Columbia, on the Carribou mine. In 1904 he came to
Southern California and located at Sawtelle. For a time he engaged in the
grocery business, which he finally disposed of. He has acceptably filled the
office of City Marshal of Sawtelle during the years 1906 and 1907. He is now
engaged in the cigar and tobacco business. Mr. Keener married at Crescent Mills,
Plumas county, California, Miss Nancy, a daughter of William E. Taylor, a
grandson of General Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States. Mrs.
Keener died at Susanville, Lassen county, California, in 1897, leaving three
children—Elsie, who is now Mrs. G. W. Walker of Modoc county, California; Viola,
Mrs. George Odette of Susanville, and Howard, who is gunner's mate in the U. S.
Navy on the Cruiser Milwaukee. Mr. Keener again married, in the year 1900, Miss
Ella Moore, at Johnsville, Plumas county, California. The family residence is
No. 234 South Seventh street, Sawtelle.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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