Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Keller, Abraham M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bedminster Township


ABRAHAM M. KELLER hotel-keeper, P.O Bedminster, was born in 
Plumstead township March 21, 1861.  His 
great-great-grandfather came from Germany, and settled in 
Haycock township.  His son, Christopher, born there December 
15, 1751, was great-grandfather of Abraham M.  He died July 
8, 1820.  His wife was Margareth Trauch, who was born in 
1759, and died August 30, 1778.  Both are buried at the 
Keller church.  The grandfather of Abraham M. and Joseph, 
who was born in Haycock township February 14, 1777, and died 
May 17, 1859.  He was a blacksmith by trade, and owned a 
small farm.  By industry and economy he accumulated a good 
estate.  He was an elder of the Keller Lutheran church.  His 
wife was Anna Mary Applebach, who was born November 2, 1798, 
and died March 6, 1876.  They are also buried at the Keller 
church, but at the new cemetery.  Their oldest son, Abraham, 
is the father of Abraham M.,and was born in Haycock, 
September 16, 1823.  He farmed for several years in 
Plumstead and Bedminster, and for three years had an 
interesting the store at Bedminsterville, and for one year 
owned the whole of the capital, and afterward bought the 
hotel property at that place, and conducted it for ten 
years, when he rented it to our subject.  He now lives in a 
fine new residence which he built opposite the hotel and 
store.  Without early advantages, Mr. Keller has made 
himself honored and respected in the place where he was born 
and lives.  He has been twice married - first in November, 
1847, to Judith Myers, the mother of all his children, who 
was born February 3, 1829, and died December 23, 1880.  
November 26, 1881, Mr. Keller was married to Susanna, widow 
of Franklin Stauffer, of Springfield township.  His children 
are:  William M., Susanna M., and Amanda M., deceased; Mary, 
wife of Henry Deaterly, of this township; Lewis, Joseph, 
Living in Philadelphia; Mahlon and Ira, with their brother 
Lewis; Catherine, wife of Harvey Shull, in Plumsteadville; 
and Abraham M.  Our subject completed his education at the 
academy at North Wales, Montgomery county, and then went 
into a wholesale furniture house in Philadelphia as shipping 
clerk.  A year later he returned to Bedminsterville, and 
engaged with his father in the feed business.  In 1884 he 
rented the hotel which he is now successfully carrying on, 
ably assisted therein by his wife.  November 15, 1884, he 
was married to Annie Nettie, daughter of John D. and  
Catherine Herstine, of Nockamixon township.  She was born 
September 14, 1862.  Mr. Keller is a member of the Keller 
Lutheran church, and his wife of St. Luke's Reformed church 
in Nockamixon.  They are popular with the traveling public, 
and keep a first-class country hotel.