Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Keltner, J C 1832 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

J. C. Keltner, grain, Mazon Center, was born near Dayton, Ohio, December 10, 
1832. When he was quite young, his parents, John and Nancy Keltner, removed to 
Indiana and settled in Elkhart County, where they lived until the time of 
their death, and where James C. was raised and received a common school 
education. He came to Illinois and to Grundy County in October, 1854, and 
engaged at his trade as carpenter and joiner, which he had acquired in 
Indiana, and at which he worked for ten years. He was married, in Grundy 
County, February 17, 1858, to Miss Sarah A., daughter of James and Elizabeth 
McKeen, of this county; she was born April 20, 1839, and is the mother of six 
children, two of whom are deceased - Benjamin F., born February 17, 1859; 
Columbus, July 8, 1862; Lulu M., June 18, 1864; William C., January 2, 1866; 
James A., August 7, 1870; and Venice, January 3, 1881. Mr. Keltner owns a farm 
of eighty acres, worth $50 an acre, in Section 23 of Mazon Township; his 
residence is one mile east of Mazon Center. He is engaged in the grain trade 
at the village of Mazon, also in the stock business, in which he is associated 
with Charles H. Overocker.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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