Biographical Sketch of Martin Keener, Springfield, Greene County, MO

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

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Mr. Keener is the son of Gottleib Keener, and was born at Batenheim,
Germany, May 9, 1846.  He came to the United States, landing at New
York on September 1, 1865.  He then went to South Bend, Ind., and then
to Michigan.  In the summer of 1869 he went to Davenport, Iowa and in
the Spring of 1870 he went to Fort Scott, Kansas, and in October of
that year he came to Springfield.  November 7, 1870 he bought out the
bakery of C. Woollmann, who had started the bakery the previous year.
Mr. Keener now has the largest bakery in the city, and has carried on 
the business successfully for thirteen years.  In 1870 he was married
to Mrs. Woolmann, widow of C. Woollmann.  They had by that marriage
one daughter.  Mrs. Keener died September 23, 1879.  Mr. Keener's par-
ents were natives of Germany.  His father died when he (Martin) was a
boy, and his mother died in 1876.  They had four sons and one daughter.

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