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Keep, John

clergyman, was born April 20, 1781, in Long Meadow, Mass.

Soon after his election as a trustee of Oberlin, he gave as president of the board the casting vote that admitted colored students. He was the last surviving founder of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions. He died Feb. 11, 1870, in Oberlin, Ohio.

Keep, Josiah

educator, author, was born in 1849 in Massachusetts. He is an educator of California; and the author of Common Sea Shells of California; and West Coast Shells.

Keep, Robert Porter

educator, author, was born in 1844 in Connecticut.

He is an educator of Norwich, Conn.; and the author of Stories from Herodotus; Essential Uses of the Moods in Greek and Latin; and Greek Lessons.

Keese, Richard

congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1794, in Peru, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1827 to 1829. He subsequently settled in Pennsylvania.

Keightley, Edwin William

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 7, 1843, in Van Buren, Ind. He was appointed judge of the fifteenth judicial circuit; and was elected to the same position in 1875, for the term of six years. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-fifth congress; and in 1879 was appointed third auditor of the United States treasury.

Keim, George May

soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born March 23, 1805, in Reading, Pa. He took an interest in military affairs, and became a majorgeneral of militia. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention of 1837; in that year was elected to congress to fill a vacancy, and was twice re-elected. He was appointed marshal of eastern Pennsylvania, and reappointed by President Polk. He died June 10, 1861.

Keiper, George Frederic

physician, author, was born March 26, 1866, in La Fayette, Ind. He is oculist and aurist to the St. Elizabeth hospital and the St.

Joseph Orphan asylum; and is the author of numerous essays on eye and ear subjects.

Keith, Eliza D

author, was born in 1854, in San Francisco, Cal. She is the author of a poem entitled, Our Flag, written during the war; and has contributed various poems to different magazines.

Keith, Charles Penrose

lawyer, author, was born March 15, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of The Provincial Councilors of Pennsylvania; and The History of Benjamin Harrison.

Keith, Reuel

clergyman, author, was born June 26, 1792, in Pittsford, Vt.

For many years he was rector of a protestant episcopal church in Georgetown, D. C. He was the author of several religious works. He died Sept. 3, 1842, in Sheldon, Vt.

Keith, William

governor, author, was born in 1680, in England. For many years he was surveyor-general of customs in America; and during 1717-26 was governor of Pennsylvania. He was the author of The History of the British Plantations in America; and other historical works of value. He died Nov. 17, 1749, in England.

Keitt, Lawrence Massillon

soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 4, 1824, in Orangeburg, S. C. He was elected to the South Carolina state legislature in 1848; in 1853 was elected to a seat in the national house of representatives, and was consecutively re-elected until 1860. Just before leaving congress he was elected to the seceding convention of South Carolina.

He was killed June 4, 1864, in battle in Virginia.