Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Keefe, Charles F. July 11, 1856 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

CHARLES F. KEEFE, senior member of the firm of Keefe, Sutliff & Company, 
liverymen, resident at Newaygo, 

was born July 11, 1856, in Solon, Somerset Co., Me.  His father, Michael 
Keefe, was born at St. John, 

N.B., May 4, 1818, of English and Scotch ancestry.  His mother Louise (Waugh) 
Keefe, was born in December, 

1824, in Maine, of English lineage.  They removed to Lincoln, Penobscot 
County, in 1859, where they 

resided nearly 17 years.  In the winter of 1875 they came to Howard City, 
Montcalm Co., Mich., whence they 

removed in December, 1882, to Canton, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y., where they are 
yet living.

Mr. Keefe became a telegraph operator at the age of 15, and followed that 
pursuit about two and a half 

years, and then engaged as a salesman in a drug store.  He came West in 1874 
and located at Howard City, 

where he spent three yers in various occupations.  In 1877 he entered upon the 
duties of book-keeper for 

the Muskegon Boom Company, where he was employed two years, acting also as 
foreman on the drive, and 

scaling logs during the winters until he came to Newaygo.  On the 18th of 
September, 1883, associated with 

Albert E. and Solon D. Sutliff, he established a livery stable on the site of 
a similar enterprise managed 

by J. M. Allen, which was destroyed by fire, April 29, 1883.  The firm are 
doing a profitable business, 

keeping ten horses and all fixtures common to such establishments.

Mr. Keefe was married at Newaygo, Feb. 14, 1881, to Flora, daughter of Calvin 
A. and Emily Sutliff, born 

in Bridgeton, Dec. 24, 1863.  Ethel, only child, was born in Bridgeton, Nov. 
28, 1881.  Mr. Keefe is a 

member of the Masonic fraternity.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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