Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Keeler, Herbert E. 1845 - 
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HERBERT E. KEELER, of the manufacturing firm of Norton & Keeler, successors of 
Hart, Norton & Co., is a native of Janesville, Onondaga Co., N. Y., born in 
1845. His father, Elijah Keeler, removed to Connecticut in 1854. Mr. K. 
enlisted there in 1863, in the 27th Conn. V. I., Co. D; was in the service 
nine months, and then discharged on account of sickness. He came to Chicago in 
1865, and engaged in the mercantile business till the spring of 1871. He was 
then Assistant Superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car Co., in Chicago five 
years, and left that position to come to La Crosse. Henry L. Norton, the 
senior member of the firm, is a resident of Chicago. He came to La Crosse in 
1861, and started the present business and went to Chicago in 1865.

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From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 765.

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