BIO: Adam Keller, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

381  BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

  ADAM KELLER, cashier of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, Carlisle, was born 
in Philadelphia, December 9, 1842, a son of Adam and Mary (Loller) 
Keller, natives of Philadelphia.  He graduated from the Central High 
School of that city, in 1861, and entered as a clerk, in Philadelphia, 
in a notary's office, where he remained until the spring of 1862, when 
he engaged in mercantile trade at Harrisburg until 1865, in which year 
he entered the law office of Col. William M. Penrose, at Carlisle, and 
was admitted to the bar of Cumberland County.  He engaged in the 
practice of law until 1869, when he was elected cashier of the Second 
National Bank at Mechanicsburg.  In February, 1877, he was elected 
cashier of the Carlisle Deposit Bank, of Carlisle, which position he 
has filled and continues to fill, to the present time, to the 
satisfaction of all.  He married at Carlisle, Penn., December 9, 1869, 
Miss Katherine Wilkins Stevenson, who was born in Carlisle, a daugh-

382  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

ter of Dr. Thomas Collins and Eliza (Duncan) Stevenson.  Dr. Thomas 
Collins Stevenson, an able practicing physician, was a son of Dr. 
George Stevenson, a very learned and courteous gentleman, at one time 
president of the old United States Bank, at Pittsburgh.  He married a 
Miss Maria Barker, of Delaware, a granddaughter of Gov. Thomas Collins, 
of that State.  Mr. and Mrs. Adam Keller are members of St. John's 
Episcopal Church, of Carlisle.  He is treasurer of the parish and a 
vestryman.  He and his wife have had three children; two daughters (now 
deceased), Bessie Duncan and Mary Loller, and one son, Thomas Collins 
Stevenson Keller, born July 2, 1884, who is living.  Mr. Keller stands 
high in the estimation of all as a strict business man and an upright 
gentleman.