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Keefe, John C – Keene, Laura
Keefe, John C
manufacturer, journalist, inventor, was born in 1846 in Chicopee, Mass. In 1878 he became editor of the Milwaukee News. He is the inventor of several useful patents.
Keefer, Horace Andrew
legislator, was born Sept. 8, 1855, in Schuylkill Haven, Pa. He received an academic education, and spent ten years in the various departments of iron and steel making in Pennsylvania-from clerk to superintendent. In 1883 he moved west, and subsequently became a member of the Kansas house of representatives from the Leavenworth district.
Keegan, J. Tremaine
poet, was born Sept. 16, 1847, in Berlin, Conn. He is the author of a number of meritorious poems, including Bells of San Blas; Deserted City in Yucatan; The Exile's Dream; and The Wanderer's Return.
Keeler, Charles Augustus
ornithologist, author, was born in 1871 in Wisconsin. He is an ornithologist and verse-writer of California; and the author of Evolution of Color in North American Land Birds; and A Light Through the Storm.
Keeler, James Edward
astronomer, educator, journalist, was born Sept. 10, 1857, in La Salle, Ill. Since 1891 he has been director of the Allegheny observatory and professor of astrophysics in the Western university of Pennsylvania. He is editor of the Astrophysical Journal. He discovered and measured the motions of Nebulæ while at the Lick observatory; and while at Allegheny secured spectroscopic proof of the meteoric structure of Saturn's rings.
Keeler, Ralph
journalist, author, was born in 1840 in Ohio. He was a journalist of California and New York; and the author of Gloverson and His Silent Partner; and Vagabond Adventures. He died Dec. 16, 1873, at sea near Cuba.
Keeler, Richard Woolsey
college president, was born Feb. 14, 1824, in Columbia county, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected the first president of Cornell college of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, serving until 1859.
Keely, John Worrall
inventor, was born Sept. 3, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is the inventor of a hydro-pneumatic pulsating vacuo machine, whose action, it is claimed, is produced by forces obtained from water and air. He constructed one hundred and twenty-four different engines, and has eliminated the use of water entirely in developing the energy that he claims to control.
Keen, Morris Longstreth
inventor, was born May 24, 1820, in West Philadelphia. He gave attention to the making of paper out of wood, and this led to the formation in 1863 of the American Wood-Paper company, with patent rights for the United States and privileges in other lands. He died Nov. 2, 1883, in Highland Grove, Pa.
Keen, William Williams
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Jan. 19, 1837, in Philadelphia. He was an eminent Philadelphia surgeon, professor of surgery at Jefferson Medical college since 1889; and author of Reflex Paralysis; Gunshot Wounds; Clinical Chart of the Human Body; Complications and Sequels of Continuous Fever; and Early History of Practical Anatomy.
Keenan, Henry Francis
journalist, author, was born May 4, 1849, in Rochester, N. Y. He is a journalist and novelist formerly of Rochester, N. Y.; and the author of The Money-Makers, a Social Problem; Trajan, the History of a Sentimental Young Man; The Aliens; One of a Thousand; and The Iron Game.
Keene, Laura
actress, was born in 1820 in England. She made her first appearance in 1852 in Wallack's theater of New York city. The Laura Keene company, with Laura Keene, Joseph Jefferson and Edward A. Sothern in the leading roles, was playing Our American Cousin at Ford's theater of Washington on April 14, 1865, when President Lincoln met his death. She died Nov. 4, 1873, in Montclair, N. J.