Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Keefer, Dr J Frank 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Dr. J. Frank Keefer, practicing physician at Sterling, was born May 10, 1856, 
in Hopkins Township, this county. His parents, Henry and Elizabeth (Strickler) 
Keefer, were natives of Pennsylvania, and in 1854-5 came West, settling in 
Empire, Hopkins Township, where Mr. Keefer purchased a farm of 80 acres and 
followed farming until 1875, when he sold and moved into Sterling. In the 
spring of 1878 he purchased Dr. Gait's drug-store on the corner of Locust and 
Third Streets, and has since been engaged in business there. Mr. Keefer, the 
subject of this sketch, was reared as a farmer's son until 17 years of age, 
when he entered the Carthage (Ill.) College and continued there until the 
spring of 1878, graduating; then, attending Rush Medical College at Chicago 
two winter terms and one spring, he received his medical diploma, Feb. 22, 
1881; and finally located in Sterling, in the practice of his profession, in 
which he has a rising popularity. He is also a partner of his father in the 
drug-store, which also is a leading business establishment of the place.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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