Frank J. Keating Biography


	This biography appears on page 847 in "History of Dakota 
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				FRANK J. KEATING. 

	Frank J. Keating is one of Yankton's successful business men, who 
in 1913 established and has since been active in the conduct of the 
Keating Creamery Company, in which his brother, John L., is his 
partner. He is a native son of the middle west and possesses the spirit 
of enterprise and progress which has ever been characteristic of this 
part of the country. His birth occurred in Janesville, Wisconsin, on 
the 8th of June, 1886, and he comes of Irish ancestry. His father, 
Edward Keating, was a contractor and builder and wedded Mary E. Breen, 
who survives him and makes her home in Yankton. 

	Spending his youthful days in his native city, Frank J. Keating 
passed through consecutive grades in the public and high schools of 
Janesville and, coming thence to this state, entered upon his business 
career in connection with the South Dakota Water Company at Sioux 
Falls. He was afterward with the Sioux Falls Produce Company, having 
charge of the creamery department of that business for about eight 
years and thus gaining the broad, practical training and experience 
which have qualified him for his later success. He also spent one year 
in connection with the Alamito Creamery Company at Omaha, Nebraska, and 
for about three years was in the employ of the Turner Creamery Company 
at Sioux Falls. In 1913 he came to Yankton and established the Keating 
Creamery Company, of which he is the president. This is a rapidly 
growing concern. They buy direct from the producer and the business is 
independent of all other concerns. Mr. Keating is a most industrious 
and energetic young business man, prompted by laudable ambition to give 
close attention to his business and carefully direct its interests. 
Gradually, therefore, he is winning success and the future seems to 
hold before him bright promises. 

	Mr. Keating was reared in the Catholic faith, to which he still 
adheres. He is a member of the Commercial Association and is interested 
in all that has to do with the progress and prosperity of Yankton. In 
politics he is a democrat, where national issues are involved, but at 
local elections casts an independent ballot. He ranks with the city's 
successful young business men and has made for himself an enviable 
position in commercial circles.