Northumberland-Schuylkill County PA Archives Biographies.....Kiefer, William 1859 - 

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WILLIAM KIEFER, one of the most enterprising and successful of the younger

business men of Mount Carmel, has won success by his perseverance and industry.

He is a son of William and Dorothea Kiefer and was born in Schuylkill Haven,

Schuylkill County, Pa., November 9, 1860. His parents were natives of Germany

and each came to the United States when young and subsequently married here.



  The father of our subject located in Pottsville, where he became a butcher,

and followed the meat business for several years. He removed to Mount Carmel in

1884 and followed his business as a butcher until within a few years, when he

practically retired from active business. He and his wife were blessed with a

family of seven children, two sons and five daughters, one dying in infancy. The

surviving children are as follows: Alice, wife of Dr. Edmund W. Samuel of Mount

Carmel; William, our subject; Anna, wife of Oscar Scott, a cabinetmaker of Mount

Carmel; Thomas, who is in business with the subject of our sketch; Mary and

Emma, who are milliners in Mount Carmel; and Martha, a teacher in one of the

schools of Mount Carmel.



  Our subject received but limited education in the common schools in

Frackville, Schuylkill County, Pa. At the age of about seventeen years he left

home and removed to Mount Carmel, and entered the employ of Charles K. Maurer,

who established the first meat market in the town of Mount Carmel. William

remained with Mr. Maurer for eight years, when he established a similar business

on his own account, which immediately prospered and which, with his brother

Thomas, he now conducts under the firm name of Kiefer Bros. He ran the market

for six years, at the end of which period the business had so enlarged that his

brother joined him and took up a part of the active management of the market.

The firm now does the leading butcher business in Mount Carmel. The brothers do

their own killing and cater only to the best trade. They keep five delivery

wagons constantly employed, and their business amounts to about six thousand

dollars per month. The firm occupies the ground floor of a large three-story

brick building, which is admirably arranged for their particular business.



  Aside from his individual business Mr. Kiefer has considerable interests in

local corporations and has done much to materially advance the industrial

prosperity of Mount Carmel. He is a director in the Mount Carmel First National

Bank and has been such for about six years; he is a director of the Edison

Electric Illuminating Company; and a director of the People's Building & Loan

Association. In politics our subject is an active Democrat. He has served one

term as a school director of the borough. He is a member of Mount Carmel Lodge

No. 378, F. & A. M.



  On December 25, 1886, Mr. Kiefer was joined in the bonds of matrimony to Mary

Eddy, daughter of Peter and Lydia (Woolcock) Eddy, of Shamokin. Their union has

been blessed by two children: Frederick and Dorothy.







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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)









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