BIO: Emanuel KELLER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 263-264.
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  KELLER, REV. EMANUEL, son of Peter and Catherine (Schaeffer) Keller, 
was born September 30, 1801, at Harrisburg, Pa.  He was educated in the 
common schools and academy of the borough, and pursued his classical 
studies under the direction of his uncle, the Rev. Benjamin Keller.  He 
subsequently entered Dickinson College, where he remained two years, 
when he began the study of theology with the Rev. Dr. Lochman, of 
Harrisburg.  In 1826 he was licensed by the Lutheran Synod of 
Pennsylvania, and the same year began his ministerial labors at 
Manchester, Md. Thence he removed to Mechanicsburg, Pa., where he 
continued in the pastorate until a short period before his death, his 
enfeebled health obliging him to resign his charge.  He died at 
Mechanicsburg, April 11, 1837, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and 
is buried in Trindle Spring graveyard.  The Rev. Mr. Keller married, 
April 14, 1825, Sabine Seltzer, of Harrisburg, and they have five 
children.