Bios: John A. KEYS: Allegheny/Greene Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Marta Burns. marta43@juno.com USGENWEB ARCHIVES (tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information are included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ____________________________________________________ John A Keys, attorney at law, with offices at No 604 Bakewell Building, Pittsburgh, Penna, is one of those men who have come up from the ranks by sheer force of will and indomitable energy. He was born in Washington township, Greene county, January 16, 1856. His parents, both of whom are now deceased, were John Keys and Hannah McLelland Keys. As a boy, John A Keys attended the common schools of his native county. Later he took a preparatory course at Monongahela college at Jefferson, Penna, and in 1877 graduated from Washington and Jefferson college, located in Washington, Penna. The following year he began the study of law in the offices of Wyly, Buchanan & Walton of Waynesburg, Penna, but before completing his studies he went to St Louis, Missouri, where he took a full course in the law department of Washington University graduating in 1881. He was at once admitted to the St Louis bar, and for three years practiced his profession in that city. In 1884 he returned to Pennsylvania, and from that time until 1889 he was engaged in school work. While thus employed he became acquainted with Miss Lucy R Bayard, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca A Bayard of Greene county, and on September 6, 1888, they were married. To this union, one daughter Florence Rebecca Bayard has been born. In 1898 Mr Key was admitted to the Allegheny county bar, and since that time has been engaged in practice in Pittsburg. He is solicitor for several corporations, and in February, 1903, was elected burgess for the borough of Wilkinsburg which office he now holds. He is a member of Wilkinsburg council, Royal Arcanum, and a member and elder of the Presbyterian church of Wilkinsburg. Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal and genealogical. Vol. 1 p 345