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Keim, William High

soldier, civil engineer, congressman, was born June 13, 1813, near Reading, Pa. In 1848 he was elected mayor of Reading, Pa.; and in 1859 was elected a representative in congress.

He was also surveyor-general of the state.

He was placed in command of a division of the volunteer army in 1861; after a campaign on the Upper Potomac was appointed a brigadier-general in the regular army; and served with honor in the army of the Potomac. He died May 18, 1862, in Harrisburg, Pa.

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