BIO: Isaac P. KEITH, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, pages 298-299.
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  ISAAC P. KEITH, retired farmer, Eagle Foundry, Pa., was born February 
3, 1836, in Tod township, Huntingdon county, Pa., son of Adam and 
Elizabeth (Plummer) Keith. The Keith (originally Kech) family is of 
German descent. Adam Keith, great-grandfather of Isaac, was a pioneer 
settler of Penn township. His son, John Keith, was a farmer in Lincoln 
and Hopewell townships, and spent his later years in Grant county, Wis. 
He first married Miss Russell, by whom he had five children: John; 
Adam; George; Henry; Elizabeth. Mrs. Keith died in Hopewell township, 
and Mr. Keith was again married and had five children: James; Lewis; 
Thomas; Peter; and Mary. Mr. Keith was active in church work, and 
erected a house of worship for the Methodist Episcopal congregation at 
a cost of over $900. He was a Republican. His second wife died in 
Wisconsin. Adam Keith, father of Isaac P., was born in Lincoln 
township, and educated in the public schools of Hopewell township. He 
assisted his father on the farm until he became of age, and afterwards 
farmed in Tod township; also owned farm land in Lincoln township and 
coal lands in Clearfield county. Adam Keith married Elizabeth, daughter 
of Eli Plummer. Their children are: Mary, deceased wife of Levi Evans; 
and Isaac P. Mr. Keith was a Republican; he served as school director. 
He took an active part in the Methodist Episcopal church, and was 
steward, trustee and class leader. His death occurred in 1881; his 
wife's in 1884.
  Isaac P. Keith attended subscription and public schools, and aided 
his father on the farm until he was twenty-one. He then purchased a 
farm of 162 acres, and has also the homestead consisting of 300 acres, 
and a farm in Lincoln township.
  Isaac P. Keith was married in 1858 to Margaret Griffith, of Broad 
Top, Bedford county. Their children were: Amanda V., who died at the 
age of fifteen; Rosanna G. (Mrs. Scott Martin); Lorena J. (Mrs. I. D. 
Edwards); Franklin A., married Martha J. Baker, has three children. 
Mrs. Keith died in 1877, and her husband married, secondly, in 1883, in 
Chicago, Delina, daughter of Thomas Griffith, of Fulton county. Their 
children are: Minerva M. I. Philip; and one who died in infancy. Mr. 
Keith is a Republican; he served as auditor three years. He is a member 
of Grange No. 444, P. of H., and of the A.P.A. of Eagle Foundry. He has 
been steward, trustee and Sunday-school superintendent in the Methodist 
Episcopal church.