Albany County WY Archives Biographies.....Keyes, William L. 1845 - 
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WILLIAM L. KEYES.

    A successful breeder of fine stock giving special attention to the Shorthorn
breeds, is the subject of this sketch, William L. Keyes, a leading citizen of
Albany county, Wyoming, whose residence is in the vicinity of Tie Siding, about
twenty-five miles south of the city of Laramie. He was born in Nova Scotia in
1845, the son of William and Sarah Jane (Logan) Keyes, both natives of the same
country. The father was born in the year 1818 and followed farming in his native
country until 1884, when he retired from business life and made his home with
his daughter, Mrs. W. R. Williams, in the vicinity of Tie Siding, Wyo., where he
passed the evening of his long and useful life in the ease and comfort to which
his years of industry and unremitting effort had so justly entitled him, dying
in November, 1894. He was the son of James and Ann (Whittier) Keyes, also
natives of Nova Scotia, the mother being born in 1814, the daughter of William
and Sarah (Ellis) Logan, both natives of Nova Scotia. The father's life business
was civil engineering, but he was also a successful teacher for a portion of his
life. He passed away in 1862, at the age of seventy years, and was buried in his
native country. William L. Keyes grew to manhood in Nova Scotia, receiving his
early education in the public schools of that province. Upon arriving at the age
of twenty-one years he left the home of his childhood and began life for
himself, engaging in farming in the vicnity of his former home for a short time.
Believing that he could improve his condition and find better business
opportunities in the United States, in 1865 he came to Massachusetts and in the
county of Middlesex engaged in farming for two years. He moved from
Massachusetts to Minnesota, where he engaged in lumbering with varying success
for about five years. He then returned to his old home in Nova Scotia, where he
remained for about three years engaged in farming. During this time he married
in 1876 with Miss Nancy Carroll, a daughter of John and Jane (Greno) Carroll,
her parents as well as herself being Nova Scotians, the birth of her father
taking place in 1810 and his death in 1879. Mr. Keyes removed with his family
from Nova Scotia to the territory of Wyoming in 1879. In the vicinity of his
present residence in Albany county he located a ranch and began the business of
raising cattle, also purchasing a hotel property at Tie Siding and conducting it
in connection with his ranching operations about eight years, then purchased the
ranch which he now occupies, where he has since been engaged in cattleraising,
being now the owner of a fine, well improved ranch and having a good herd of
Shorthorn stock. Mr. and Mrs. Keyes have five children, Carrie, Harry, Amy,
Willis and an infant (deceased), the family being one of the most respected in
the community where they reside.


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