BIOGRAPHIES: Lucius Judson KEYES, Dallas Township, Barron County, WI ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor, or the legal representative of the contributor, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Vic Gulickson 2 December 2000 ==================================================================== Lucius Judson Keyes, for some years a resident of section 22, Dallas Township, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., Oct. 5, 1846, and was reared and educated there. He was but eighteen when he enlisted in Company I, 14th New York Heavy Artillery, in which unit he served gallantly for twenty-one months. After the war he moved to Ohio and settled on a tract of wild land in the heavy timbers near Florida. He built a log cabin and started pioneering. In time he built up a good farm. He became a prominent man in that community and was highly esteemed. But the pioneer blood was in his veins, so in 1892 he struck out for a newer country. He found his way to Barron County and purchased the rights in a homestead of 160 acres in section 22, Dallas Township, not far from the village. Part of it had been cleared and a log house and frame barn erected. He improved this place, erected a good set of buildings and developed a good farm. There he successfully carried on general farming. In addition to his work at home, he was actively interested in public affairs, and for a time he served as township treasurer. The Methodist Episcopal Church found him a willing and earnest worker, and he served for many year as superintendent of the Sunday school. In November, 1912, he rented out the farm and moved to Barron, where he lived until April, 1915. From that time for four years he did a good deal of traveling and in July, 1919, went to Excelsior, Minn., where he now lives. Mr. Keyes was married in Michigan, Oct. 4, 1873, to Harriet Fauber, who was born in Loraine County, Ohio, Oct. 16, 1857, the daughter of Walter and Alzina (Cornell) Fauber. This union was blessed with twelve children: Wesley V., Elnora, Olive, Bessie, Edna, Adeline, Walter, Mildred and Dorothea, and Clifford and two others who died in infancy. The mother died at Barron, Sept. 15, 1914. On Aug. 12, 1919, Mr. Keyes was married, at Minneapolis, to Mrs. Jetta Pecore, widow of Joseph Pecore, son of Joseph Pecore, the pioneer. --Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 628-629.