JOHN A. KEATING, Leeson's Hist. of MT 1739-1885, Jefferson Co., MT USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. "List transcribed and organized by Ellen Rae Thiel, thieljl@aol.com All rights reserved." Copyright, 1998 by Ellen Rae Thiel. This file may be freely copied for non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved. JOHN A. KEATING - pg 1183 From Leeson's History of Montana 1739-1885 published in 1885 SURNAMES FOUND IN THIS BIOGRAPHY: CLARK John A. Keating, P. O. Beaver Creek, the discoverer of the mines at Radersburgh in 1866, is a native of England, where he was born in 1836. He came to New York in 1850. His father was a blacksmith and lived in Lancashire. Mr. Keating was a coppersmith, and after remaining in New York for seven years came to Chicago, going in 1858 to St. Louis and on to Utah, but returning as far as Nebraska City in 1859. In 1860 he went to Pike's Peak and was engaged in mining at Tarryall and Georgia Gulch until the spring of 1863, when he started for Montana, first arriving at East Bannack, and soon after at Alder Gulch. He staid at Alder Gulch from the spring of 1863 until the fall of 1864, then went to the States. In the spring of 1865 he outfitted in St. Joseph, Mo., and came to Confederate Gulch, where he engaged in the mercantile business until the summer of 1866. From Confederate Gulch he went to Indian Creek, and from there to Cedar Plains mining district, near where Radersburgh now stands, where he discovered the first mines, and now owns the "Lefiathan" and "Keating" the "Ohio" and the "Congress" mines in that locality. From Radersburg he moved to Helena, and thence to Beaver Creek, where he now resides and is engaged in the stock business. He has two farms, when he now lives, and another of 320 acres on the Missouri river, both in good condition. In 1873 he was married to Miss Jennie Clark, a native of the Island of Jersey, and they have two children, John Blaine and Lilly Alma.