Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Keiper, Oswin C.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Milford Township


   OSWIN C. KEIPER farmer, P.O. Spinnerstown, was born in 
Lehigh county in 1848, his great-grandfather having been a 
life-long resident of Milford, Bucks county.  Samuel Keiper, 
grandfather of Oswin, married Catharine Rosenberger, and had 
eleven children, five now living; John, the second son, was 
father of Oswin C.   He married Rebecca, daughter of Adam 
and Margaret Carver.  The result of this union was three 
children, of whom our subject is one.  Oswin C. attended the 
common schools until the age of 18, when he was for one year 
a student at the normal school at Millersville.  For three 
years thereafter he taught during the winter months, 
attending school in the summer time, and from 1870 to 1884 
was engaged exclusively in teaching, having been granted a 
permanent certificate from the state department of public 
instruction in 1880.  In 1876 he married Lizzie, daughter of 
Isaac Bickel, of this township.  Their union was blessed 
with four children:  Minnie A., Elma, Corrinna and Robert 
Cleveland, all living.  In 1884 Mr. Keiper gave up his 
occupation as teacher and engaged exclusively in farming on 
his farm, where he now resides.  For a period of five years 
he was assessor of his native township.  He is a member of 
the German Reformed church and has been superintendent of 
the Sunday school for a number of years.  Mr. Keiper is 
highly respected by his neighbors for his honesty, integrity 
and sincerity. Politically he is a democrat.