Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Keefer, Robert D. 1856 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com September 27, 2007, 6:46 pm

Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Robert D. Keefer, carpenter and grocer, Rob Roy, son of Israel and Margaret
(Hall) Keefer, was born in Shawnee township, January 10, 1856. His parents
removed from Ross county, Ohio, to this place in 1854. He obtained a common
school education, and at the age of eighteen began to learn the carpenter's
trade. He has followed this business to the present time. Mr. Keefer was
married, September 9, 1880, to Miss Ida, daughter of Jacob Clawson. She was born
October 16, 1860. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Nehemiah. The Clawsons were
early settlers in this part of the country. Mr. Keefer is a young man of spirit
and enterprise, and in politics a republican.

Additional Comments:

Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/fountain/bios/keefer1080gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/

File size: 1.7 Kb