Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Keller, William H. J. January 11, 1887 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

WILLIAM H. J. KELLER, Business Man. A factor in the business life of Hilo as 
president and manager of the Building Supply Co., Ltd., William H. J. Keller 
has been a resident of Hawaii since November, 1909. He was born in New York 
City, Jan. 11, 1887, the son of Francis X. and Catherine A. (Behr) Keller, and 
was educated in parochial and public schools of his native city.
  Following his removal to the islands, he was manager of the planing mill of 
the Kahului Railway Co., 1910-11; overseer, Kohala Sugar Co., 1911; 
yardmaster, Hilo Railway Co., 1911-12; with the hardware department of the 
Hilo Mercantile Co., 1912-16; hardware department, H. Hackfeld & Co., 1916-17, 
and hardware department, American Factors, 1919-21. In 1921 he organized the 
Keller Hardware Co., now the Building Supply Co., Ltd.
  Mr. Keller has had six years of service in the National Guard and United 
States army (served during the World war period, 1917-18), rising from private 
to captain. He is a past commander of his American Legion post, an Elk, and 
member of the Hilo Yacht Club and Chamber of Commerce, serving for two years 
on the Merchants’ Committee of the latter organization. He was chairman of the 
Navy Day program committee in 1924. On May 10, 1911, at Kohala, Hawaii, Mr. 
Keller married Ellen K. Daniels, and they have one child, Nancy E. O. Keller, 
born May 14, 1917.


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