Lake-La Porte County IN Archives Biographies.....Keilman, John L. 1867 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN L. KEILMAN.

    John L. Keilman, general merchant and a director in the First National Bank
at Dyer, is an influential and progressive young business man of Lake county,
where he has had his life-long residence. He early marked out business pursuits
as the object of his career, and he has been steadily advancing to greater
success in his enterprises since he took up active life some fifteen years ago.
He is well known throughout the county, not only for his connection with
commercial and financial affairs but also as the bearer of a family name that
will always be entitled to honor and esteem in Lake county, with whose growth
and material development the first American Keilman became identified in the
pioneer epoch, and the family influence and resources have been increasing to
the present time.

    Mr. Keilman is the youngest son of Leonard and Lena (Austgen) Keilman, who
have lived in Lake county for sixty years and whose history, together with other
facts concerning this prominent family, will be found on other pages of this
volume. John L. Keilman was born in St. John township, Lake county, August 21,
1867, and was reared in his native place. After receiving a common school
training he spent two years at the Catholic seminary at St. Francis, near
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he took a business course. After his return home he
engaged in the general mercantile business, in 1890, in partnership with his
father. In 1892 he sold out his interest to his father, and spent the following
nine months sight-seeing in California and the Pacific coast. He returned once
more to engage in business with his father, under the name of L. Keilman & Son,
and this firm is still doing business at the old stand which was established
nearly fifty years ago. They have a large stock of general merchandise and do a
large business with the surrounding district. Mr. Keilman was one of the men who
organized the First National Bank in Dyer, in 1903, and is now one of its
directors.

    Mr. Keilman married, October 3, 1895, Miss Emma Schaefer, who was born
October 3, 1871, and is also a native of Dyer, St. John township, a daughter of
Jacob Schaefer. They have no children.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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