Biographical Sketch of Josiah T. Keet, Springfield, Greene County, MO

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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This gentleman is the son of Charles Keet, and was born in England,
September 8, 1822.  He emigrated to America and settled in Arkansas in
1839.  In 1840 he moved to Barry county, Missouri.  He began merchan-
dising before he was of age, and has been engaged in it steadily to 
the present, except about six months.  He came to Springfield in 1862,
and has been engaged in the wholesale and retail trade until within 
the last five years, when they concluded to do an exclusive wholesale
business.  The firm was at first Keet, Massey & Co., but now it is
Keet, Rountree & Co.  They have the only wholesale dry goods and boot
and shoe house in the city, and sell for about one hundred and fifty
miles southeast, south and southwest of Springfield.  Mr. Keet was
married in Barry county, Missouri, August 10, 1843 to Elizabeth P.
West.  They have been blest with six children.  He is a Mason, and he
and his wife are members of the Methodist Church.

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