BIO: John B. KEAN, Huntingdon County, PA

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McElroy, James Thomas Jr., McElroy's Family Memories, 
Huntingdon, PA: (Author), 1930, page 123.
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JOHN B. KEAN
Alexandria, Pa.

Postmaster:  Was born at Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pa., August 13, 
1869.  A son of Peter and Annie (Hamer) Kean, both deceased.  John B. Kean 
has spent all his life in Huntingdon County.  The Alexandria Grade Schools 
were his first schooling.  For five years was clerk with Phillips & Son at 
Alexandria, Pa., after which he bought out the firm of Phillips & Son and 
established a partnership, trading as Kane & Spyker; he afterwards was a 
salesman on the road for five years; then resumed the mercantile business.  
For eleven years has been postmaster at Alexandria, Pa., receiving the 
appointment under the Wilson administration.  Was County Auditor for a term 
of four years; an Income Tax Collector; Special Deputy, 1917; was School 
Director and Secretary of School Board; also Secretary of Council of 
Alexandria, Pa.  During the World War was Register of Draft Board, Justice 
of the Peace, and Notary Public.  A member of the Methodist Church; a 
Trustee, Sunday School Treasurer and formerly Superintendent.  Belongs to 
the Masonic Fraternity, Mount Moriah Chapter, No. 300; also Modern Woodmen 
of America.  Is non-partisan in politics.  Has one brother, George H., of 
Alexandria, Pa.  One sister, Annie Roper, of New Kensington, Pa.  Mr. John 
B. Kean was married to Lena Lankard.  One son, Milton D., married to Mary 
Beatty, of Sunbury, Pa., with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.  
One daughter, Ruth, married to Roy M. Shirk, Altoona, Pa.  Patrons' wants 
are carefully attended to under his administration.