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Keck, John Melvin

educator, clergyman, lecturer, was born Sept. 18, 1854, in Franklin Square, Ohio. He is a graduate of Mount Union college, and of the Drew Theological, seminary of Madison, N. J. He has filled the chair of German in the Mount Union college of Alliance, Ohio; since 1883 has been a clergyman of the methodist episcopal church; and now fills a pastorate in Mentor, Ohio. He is a noted lecturer on natural history; and a constant writer of magazine articles on popular science.

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